In Memory of a Friend

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the memory of Rustem Sultanovich Gabyashev (1941-2010), an outstanding Kazan archeologist. He was one of the renowned experts in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic of the Volga-Kama region. The author, the researcher’s colleague and friend, narrates about his scientific and, first of all, expedition activities, offers some biographical data and characterizes his personal qualities

Keywords

• : R.S. Gabyashev
• the Volga river region
• Kazan
• personalia
• history of archaeology