Svitlana Oleksandrivna Bilyayeva (, born 28 March 1946) is an
archaeologist
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, who specialises in the
ancient and medieval history of
Ukraine
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, the
Golden Horde
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and the
Ottoman Empire
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.
Biography
Bilyayeva was born on 28 March 1946 in
Dzaudzhikau in
North Ossetia
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Etymology
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.
Career and education
She studied history at
Voronezh State University
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from 1964, graduating in 1969.
From 1969 to 1981 she worked as a researched at the Institute of Archaeology in Ukraine.
In 1978 she was awarded a Masters, with a dissertation on the archaeology of "South Russian lands in the second half of the 13th-14th centuries".
From 1981 to 1987 she was the Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology.
From 1987 to 1996 she was a senior researcher at the institute.
In 2012 she was awarded a PhD in Archaeology for her research on "Relations between East Slavic and Turkic worlds in XIII-XVIII centuries".
Since 2013 she was worked as a lecturer at the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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. She is Professor of History at
Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.
Bilyayeva is on several academic and heritage boards, including: the Ukrainian UNESCO Committee, the editorial board for "Сходознавство" ("The Oriental Studies") published by NAS Ukraine,
Research
Bilyayeva has worked extensively on the excavations at Akkerman (
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (, ; ; ), historically known as Aq Kirmān () or by other names, is a port city in Odesa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. It is situated on the right bank of the Dniester Estuary leading to the Black Sea, in the historical r ...
) and synthesised archaeological and historical data from there. From 2006 to 2010 she was director of the Akkerman Fortress Project. She led excavations into a previously unknown 14th century Lithuanian city near the village of Tyaginka in the
Beryslav
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region, which was sited upon the previous settlement of the Golden Horde. She has led research into the Tyagin fortress, which was the southernmost defensive structure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She has excavated and researched Ottoman monuments in Ukraine, including at
Ochakiv
Ochakiv (, ), also known as Ochakov (; ; or, archaically, ) and Alektor (), is a small city in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast (region) of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Ochakiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. ...
(Özü).
References
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1946 births
People from North Ossetia–Alania
Ukrainian women archaeologists
Ukrainian archaeologists
Voronezh State University alumni
NASU Institute of Archaeology
Living people