About the benefits of studying correspondence of archaeologists (a letter from N.N. Bortvin to K.V. Salnikov)

Abstract

The paper contains the analysis of a letter of archeologist N.N. Bortvin to archaeologist K.V. Salnikov. The text is filled with precious information on the history of archaeology in the Urals and in the Trans-Urals in the 1920–1930th years, and information about known archaeological sites of the Southern Urals and Trans-Urals.

Keywords

• Southern Urals
• Trans-Urals
• history of Ural archaeology
• archaeological sites
• museums of the Urals