Anatoly Nikolaevich Kirpichnikov (25 June 1929 - 16 October 2020) was a Soviet and Russian archaeologist. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the
RSFSR
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(1991).
Honorary citizen of the
Leningrad
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oblast (2013).
Biography
Anatoly Nikolaevich Kirpichnikov was born on June 25, 1929 in the city of
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
, now the city of
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...
. During the blockade, his mother worked as a doctor at plant No. 181 and died during artillery shelling in July 1943.
He graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University. Since 1955 he worked at the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the
USSR Academy of Sciences
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (u ...
.
In 1963, at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he defended his candidate’s thesis “Russian melee weapons (X-XIII centuries)”, and in 1975 at the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he presented his doctoral dissertation “Military Affairs of Rus' in the 9th-15th centuries.”.
He was a head of excavations in
Staraya Ladoga
Staraya Ladoga ( rus, Ста́рая Ла́дога, p=ˈstarəjə ˈladəɡə, r=Stáraya Ládoga, t=Old Ladoga), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the ...
. Member of the scientific council of the Russian Military Historical Society.
The main range of scientific interests were history, archeology, culture and architecture of Ancient Rus' and neighboring countries.He is an author of more than 650 scientific works, including 16 monographs.
On November 25, 2009, he publicly opposed the construction of the
Okhta Center tower in St. Petersburg.
Anatoly Kirpichnikov died on October 16, 2020. He was buried at the Alekseevskoye cemetery in the village of Staraya Ladoga, Staraya Ladoga rural settlement, Volkhov district, Leningrad region. A monument was erected on his grave.
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References
Historians of Russia
Soviet archaeologists
Saint Petersburg State University alumni