B.S. Zhukov is a Leader of the Moscow Paleoethnological School (based on correspondence with A.M. Tallgren)

Abstract

B.S. Zhukov and A.M. Tallgren belong to the number of key figures in the Russian, Finnish and European archaeology of the 1920s. The founder of the paleoethnological direction of research at Moscow University was D.N. Anuchin with his famous triad – synthesis of prehistoric archaeology, anthropology and ethnography. In the early 1920s, Zhukov, his student, went further and put into practice his teacher's ideas by proposing a research program and uniting a team of young scientists – archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, and specialists in other scientific disciplines. Zhukov, as a leader of the paleoethnological school, not only accepted Anuchin's idea of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of man in his past and present, but realized it during large-scale complex expeditions and in-depth scientific research. Zhukov's school as a scientific direction developed for a short time in the middle and second half of the 1920s. A generation of archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnologists who made invaluable contributions to the development of Russian and world science grew up there. These questions are under review in the presented article. It is based on the correspondence between B.S. Zhukov and the Finnish archaeologist A.M. Tallgren.

Keywords

• archaeology
• b.s. zhukov
• a.m. tallgren
• institute of anthropology of moscow state university
• moscow paleoethnological school
• dialogue in correspondence
• international scientific relations