On September 29, 1970, a prominent Soviet archaeologist and Kavkaz scholar, Lenin Prize laureate, head of the Neolithic and Bronze sector of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, honored Scientist of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, I. I. Abramovich, died suddenly. Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Evgeny Ignatievich Krupnov. E. I. Krupnov was born on March 16, 1904 in Mozdok (North Ossetian ASSR) in the family of an employee. Having started his education in Vladikavkaz (now Ordzhonikidze), he finished it in Moscow, at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, where under the guidance of V. A. Gorodtsov he studied the history and archeology of the Caucasus. After graduating from the University, E. I. Krupnov worked for about 20 years at the State Historical Museum, but most of the time. his creative life was connected with the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1937 until the end of his life, except for 1941-1945, when E. I. Krupnov served in the Soviet Army, he remained its employee. At the Institute, he worked his way up from a junior researcher to deputy director of the Institute and head of the Neolithic and Bronze sector. Evgeny Ignatievich's activity was distinguished by its versatility: he was an excellent field researcher, a major scientist and a caring teacher, an organizer of science and an active public figure. He is the author of more than 200 works devoted to general and specific issues of archeology and history of the Ciscaucasia and the Caucasus. His fundamental work "The Ancient History of the North Caucasus", awarded the Lenin Prize in 1960, represents the result of more than 30 years of hard work. E. I. Krupnov was the organizer and permanent leader of the North Caucasus Archaeological expedition, which conducted extensive systematic field research, culminating in the discovery of a large number of historical and archaeological sites of ... Читать далее