Boris Nikolaevich Grakov (Russian: Борис Николаевич Граков) (December 13 [O.S. December 1] 1899 in Onega — September 14, 1970 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian archeology, classical philology and ancient epigraphy.^[1] December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Old Style or O.S. is a designation indicating that a date conforms to the Julian calendar, formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian calendar, currently in use in most countries. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Onega (Russian: ) is a town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2007)    - Density 10,469,000   9684. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by an Indo-Aryans known as the Scythians. ... Sarmatian Cataphract Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (the second form is mostly used by the earlier Greek writers, the other by the later Greeks and the Romans) were a people whom Herodotus (4. ... Classical scholarship, also known as classical philology or classics, is the study of ancient Greece and Rome. ... Epigraphy (Greek, επιγραφή - written upon) is the study of inscriptions engraved into stone or other permanent materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. ...

Grakov graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Moscow State University in 1922. He became the Doctor of Science in history in 1939 and was a professor of the university since then.^[2] Since 1925 he performed excavations near Volga and Ural mountains and since 1937 in the Ukraine.^[2] Grakov systematized the huge amount of information on ceramic stamps of the Ancient Greece and created the full catalog of such stamps from the Northern Black Sea region. In 1938-41 and 1944-52 he excavated Kamenskoe Gorodishche near Nikopol, a large center of the Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of Scythians.^[1][2] He worked out issues of the Scythian ethnic geography and on social structure and industries of Scythians and Sarmatians. He pointed out main milestones of the 6th to 4th century BC Sarmatian culture in Volga and Ural regions.^[2] In particular, between 1945 and 1947 he proposed the four-phase periodization scheme for history and culture of Sarmatian tribes in those regions. ^[1] Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский государственный университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... D.Sc. ... The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning. ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... Map of the Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains (Russian: , Uralskiye gory) (also known as the Urals, the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, and known as the Stone Belt) are a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. ... Ancient Egyptian ceramic art: Louvre Museum. ... The Temple to Athena, the Parthenon Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around three thousand years. ... NASA satellite image of the Black Sea Map of the Black Sea The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Anatolia that is actually a distant arm of the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Nikopol (Нікополь) is a town of Ukraine, in the government of Ekaterinoslav, on the right bank of the Dnieper, 70 miles S.S.W. of the town of Ekaterinoslav. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an electrum cup from the KulOba kurgan burial near Kerch. ... Approximate extent of Scythia and Sarmatia in the 1st century BC (the orange background shows the spread of Eastern Iranian languages, among them Scytho-Sarmatian). ... An ethnic group is a group of people who identify with one another, or are so identified by others, on the basis of a boundary that distinguishes them from other groups. ... Sarmatia and Scythia in 100 BC, also shown is the extent of the Parthian Empire. ...

Grakov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and various medals.^[2] The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was an Order (decoration) of the Soviet Union for accomplishments in labour and civil service. ...

Reference

1. ^ ^{a b c} Biography at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, entry on "Boris Grakov", available online here

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External link

• A short biography and a list of publications