Okladnikov archaeologist biography

The Soviet archaeologist, historian, ethnographer Alexei Pavlovich Okladnikov was born, his father was a rural teacher, his mother was a peasant. Lesha graduated from the Anginsky secondary school of the Kachug district and, under the influence of its director, the passionate local historian Innocent Zhitov, fell in love with history. An unforgettable impression was made on him by an archaeological expedition, which worked on Verkhnyaya Lena in the early twenties of the last century.

The teenager was surprised to learn from scientists that the land on which he was born is full of historical secrets and riddles. Therefore, after graduating from the official version of the Biography of Okladnikov adopted in Soviet times, it follows that he first entered the Irkutsk pedagogical college, and from there went to the pedagogical institute. In fact, neither the technical school nor the institute was graduated from Okladnikov.

In great science, he started, without a higher education, but finished the professor and academician. He was lucky that there were talented mentors and colleagues who helped the gifted young man from the hinterland to develop natural abilities. On behalf of his teacher, Berngard Petri Okladnikov begins work in the field of archeology, which soon becomes the work of his life.

In the city of Okladnikov, he entered graduate school at the State Academy of the History of Material Culture G. He was appointed director of the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy. In this position, Alexei Pavlovich worked until his death in the city of Okladnikov owns a number of remarkable scientific discoveries: the find of the first Neanderthal burial in the USSR Grotto Teshik-Tash, the famous Upper Paleolithic parking under the Irkutsk, multilayer parking lot of the Turkmenistan, Paleolithic monuments in the Far East, and other scientific scientific monuments, etc.

The interests of Alexei Pavlovich were extensive: from the monuments of the Paleolithic to the study of Russian settlements of the BB. He was the leader of many archaeological expeditions, both domestic and foreign. Hundreds of works have been published, dozens are monographs. For more than half a century, A. Okladnikov traveled every summer on an expedition to search and study the traces of an ancient person in the territory of our country.

He owns the honor of the opening of a number of remarkable monuments of the distant past: parking and caves, opened and studied under his leadership in the Angara, Lena, Kolyma, Selenga, Amur and Ussuri, for the first time allowed to accurately and fully imagine the history of the ancient inhabitants of Siberia and the Far East for many millennia. In Mountain Altai, Alexei Pavlovich made a sensational discovery.

On the left high bank of the Ulalinka River on the southeastern outskirts of Gorno-Altaysk, he discovered a paleolithic location. The discovered stone guns of primitive man are surprisingly similar to the ancient Olduysk southeastern Africa of the find. Academician Okladnikov spent more than one year in Altai, attracting scientists from various specialties - geologists, physicists, paleontologists.

The scientist made the most large -scale excavations of the monument in the city of Ulalinka's discovery was an important step in knowing the processes of the origin of man and the settlement of the planet. At the end of the x, academician A. Okladnikov again conducts research on Altai, already in the territory of the village. Under his leadership and with the active participation of V.

Molodin, V. Petrin in the southern neighborhood with. The cuff revealed a number of multi -time monuments from the Paleolithic era to the era of metal. The scientist made his last great discovery in Altai. In the summer, G. Okladnikov discovered the parking of a primitive man of the Paleolithic era in the area of ​​Kara-BBO ONGUDAIASKAIA DISTRICATION.

Even at the time of the opening, Alexei Pavlovich determined the value of the monument and predicted him a great future.

Indeed, those materials and facts obtained during the excavations of the kara-bomer brought world fame to this object. The study of the parking lot ended only in g.