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Eurasian Steppes in Ancient and Medieval Time
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Mikhail P. Gryaznov (1902-1984)
International Conference
From 11 to 15 March, 2002, took place the conference commemorating the
100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Mikhail P. Gryaznov (1902-1984),
the prominent scholar, archeologist and explorer of Western Siberia, the
Altai and Kazakhstan, who from 1937 worked at the Hermitage and later
at the Institute of Material Culture History, Russian Academy of Sciences
(Leningrad, St. Petersburg). In 1926 he discovered for the first time
in the region of Orenburg and excavated to the west of Orsk on the river
Ural kurgans of the Andronovo culture whose monuments were already known
in Siberia. In 1927-1929, Mikhail P. Gryaznov excavated the Pazyryk kurgans
in the Altai, from the 50s, he worked everywhere in Siberia, from the
Altai to the Baikal.
Mikhail B. Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, and Yevgeny
N. Nosov, Director of the Institute of Material Culture History, Russian
Academy of Sciences, greeted participants of the readings. Representatives
of the Archeology Department of the State Hermitage Museum, Russian and
foreign academic institutions, colleagues, friends and disciples of Mikhail
P. Gryaznov took part in the conference. The first day of the conference
was dedicated to the scholar's life and work. Mikhail P. Gryaznov explored
monuments of the bronze and early iron ages in various areas of Siberia,
Kazakhstan and the Altai. An encyclopedic scholar, his publications show
him as an archeologist, historian, ethnographer, sociologist, art critic,
criminologist, anthropologist, paleozoologist and pedologist. He carefully
established the chronological sequence and historico-cultural affinity
of the Altai monuments, reconsidered the origin and process of formation
of the Scythian cultures in Siberia and put forward the new thesis of
the single process of their development.
Presentations made at the conference dealt with the history and art of
the early nomadic age, history and culture of Scythians and cultural genesis
of medieval communities. Proceedings of the conference are published in
Stepi Yevrazii v Drevnosti i Srednevekovye (Eurasian Steppes in Ancient
and Medieval Time), vol. 1-2, St. Petersburg, 2002.
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Mikhail Gryaznov (1902-1984)
Yakov Sher is taking a speech at Eurasian Steppes in
Ancient and Medieval Time International conference
The conference
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