Vasily Dimitrievich Dimitriev (January 11, 1924, Novoye Syurbeevo,
Tsivilsky District
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, Chuvash Autonomous Okrug, USSR - January 8, 2013,
Cheboksary
Cheboksary is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia. It is a port on the Volga River.
Geography
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, Russia) - Soviet and Russian archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor.
Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1980). Member of the Archaeographic Commission of the
USSR Academy of Sciences
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(since 1968).
Biography and scientific activity
Born into a peasant family. After graduating from Churachik secondary school, he entered the history and philology department of the
Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute.
Participant of the
Great Patriotic War
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: From 1942 - cadet of the artillery school, junior lieutenant, lieutenant-commander of a platoon in fighter-anti-tank brigades on the
2nd Ukrainian,
1st Baltic,
3rd Belorussian fronts.
In 1948, he graduated with honors from the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute.
From 1946, he worked as a senior laboratory assistant in the history department of the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute, and from 1948 as a junior research fellow at the
Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (ChNII YALI).
In 1955, he completed postgraduate studies at the Department of History of the USSR during the feudal period at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
For 20 years, Dimitriev was the director of the Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (today the
Chuvash State Institute of Humanities), and was also a professor at the
ChSU named after I.N. Ulyanov.
As noted by the
Chuvash Encyclopedia, Vasily Dimitriev was one of the leading experts on the medieval history of the
Volga region
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and the Volga peoples.
His doctoral dissertation, defended in 1968, was entitled "History of
Chuvashia
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in the
Feudal Era."
Dimitriev addressed such issues as the ethnogenesis of the
Chuvash, the history of Volga Bulgaria, the position of the Bulgaro-Chuvash in the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate, and the colonial policy of the Russian state towards the Chuvash.
Scientific publications
Vasily Dimitriev is the author of about 300 scientific works, including 19 monographs ("History of Chuvashia in the 18th Century", "Chuvash Historical Legends", "Chuvash: Ethnic History and Traditional Culture" and others).
He introduced many historical sources into scientific circulation, published works on such Chuvash figures as Nikita Bichurin, Spiridon Mikhailov, Nikolai Nikolsky.
Participated in the preparation of more than 10 doctors and 40 candidates of historical sciences.
Vasily Dimitriev is the author of about 300 scientific works, including 19 monographs ("History of Chuvashia in the 18th Century", "Chuvash Historical Legends", "Chuvash: Ethnic History and Traditional Culture" and others). He introduced many historical sources into scientific circulation, published works on such Chuvash figures as Nikita Bichurin, Spiridon Mikhailov, Nikolai Nikolsky. Participated in the preparation of more than 10 doctors and 40 candidates of historical sciences.
Scientific affairs
* Димитриев В. Д. История Чувашии XVIII века (до крестьянской войны 1773-1775 годов). — Чебоксары: Чуваш. гос. изд-во, 1959. — 532 с.
* Димитриев В. Д. Чебоксары: Очерки истории города конца 13–17 вв. — Чебоксары: Чувашское книжное издательство, 2003. — 184 с.
* Димитриев В. Д. Чувашские материнские селения Свияжского, Кокшайского, Чебоксарского, Козьмодемьянского, Цивильского, Ядринского, Курмышского и Симбирского уездов первой половины XVIII века: Справочник. — Чебоксары: Чувашское книжное издательство, 2006.
* Димитриев В. Д., Селиванова С. А. Чебоксары: Очерки истории города XVIII века. — Чебоксары: Чуваш. кн. изд-во, 2011. — 446 с. (в пер.)
* Димитриев В. Д. Чувашский народ в составе Казанского ханства: Предыстория и история / Сост. Д. В. Басманцев; Чувашский государственный институт гуманитарных наук. — Чебоксары: Чуваш. кн. изд-во, 2014. — 192 с. — 1000 экз. — . (в пер.)
Articles
* Димитриев В. Д. Откуда мы родом // газета «Чăваш Ен», 1991.
* Димитриев В. Д. Об обосновании Н. И. Ашмариным теории болгаро-чувашской языковой и этнической преемственности // Известия Национальной академии наук и искусств Чувашской Республики. — 1996. — No. 1. — С. 183–200.
Awards and titles
Awards of the USSR
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Order of the Red Star
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(1945)
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Order of the Red Banner of Labor
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(1976)
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Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (1985)
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Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1980)
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Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1980)
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Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation (1997)
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Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
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Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
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Medal "For the Capture of Koenigsberg"
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Medal "Veteran of Labor"
Awards of the Russian Federation
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Order of Friendship (Russia)
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Zhukov Medal
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Awards of the Chuvash Republic
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Honored Scientist of the Chuvash ASSR (1974)
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Order of Merit for the Chuvash Republic (2008)
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State Prize of the Chuvash Republic in Science and Technology (1994 and 2001)
Public awards
* Laureate of the Republican Journalism Prize named after S. V. Elger (2002)
* Metropolitan Makariy Medal (Makarievskaya Prize).
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* Laureate of the Republican Journalism Prize named after Nikolai Nikolsky
Municipal awards
* Honorary citizen of Cheboksary (2012)
* Honorary citizen of Tsivilsky district (2004)
* Honorary citizen of the city of Tsivilsk (1989)
Literature
* Служение истории : сб. науч. ст / Чуваш. гос. ун-т им. И. Н. Ульянова. — Чебоксары : Изд-во ЧГУ. — Вып. 1. — 2005. — 311 с. ; Вып. 2 :. — 2008. — 315 с.
* '' Фроянов И. Я., Смирнов Ю. П.'' Историк, исследователь, учёный В. Д. Димитриев. — Чебоксары : Изд-во Чуваш. гос. ун-та, 1994. — 68 с.
* ''Багадерова, В.'' «Ҫутӑ сӑнарӗ асӑмӑртах…» // Хыпар. — 2013. — 13 нарӑс. — С. 4.
* ''Тенюшев, И.'' Çĕнĕ кăларăм пуян та капăр // Тăван Атăл. — 2005. — No. 2. — С. 65–67.
* Халӑхран тухнӑ ӑсчах // Хыпар. — 2013. — 28 нарӑс. — Прил.: с. 1–16. — («Хыпар» кӗнеки ; No. 1).
* '' Айплатов Г. Н.'' Археографическая деятельность профессора В. Д. Димитриева // Марийский археогр. вестн. — 2009. — No. 9. — С. 203–207.
* ''Бойко, И. И., Каштанов С. М.'' Димитриев Василий Димитриевич : (к 85-летию со дня рождения) // Чуваш. гуманит. вестн. : археология, искусствоведение, история, правоведение, социол., филология, экономика, этнология. — 2009. — No. 4. — С. 194–201.
* Димитриев Василий Димитриевич : екролог// Советская Чувашия. — 2013. — 10 янв. — С. 15 : портр.
* ''Иванова, В.'' Виват, Чебоксары, виват! : страницы 60-летней масштабной «Чебоксариады» историка В. Димитриева / В. Иванова; фот. М. Дмитриева // Совет. Чувашия. — 2012. — 21 марта. — С. 2.
* '' Каховский В. Ф., Смирнов Ю. П.'' Академик В. Д. Димитриев — историк, организатор науки и педагог // Исследователи чувашской культуры и истории. — Уфа, 1998. — С. 5-20.
* ''Смирнов, А.'' Вся жизнь — служение науке // Чувашия сегодня. — 2004. — 30 янв. — С. 4.
* ''Смирнов, Ю. П.'' Видный историк-медиевист // Халăх шкулĕ = Нар. шк. — 2000. — No. 4. — С. 133–137.
* ''Смирнов, Ю. П.'' Выдающаяся фигура среди историков Среднего Поволжья // Учёные. — Чебоксары, 2006. — С. 130–144. — (Б-ка Президента Чуваш. Респ. ; т. 4).
* ''Тенюшев, И. Я.'' Мина упала в нескольких метрах... // Ульяновец. — 2005. — 5 мая. — С. 4–5.
References
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External links
Умер чувашский историк Василий Димитриев
* [http://www.cap.ru/Publication.aspx?gov_id=12&id=77023&page=399 Публикации «Чебоксарские учёные поднимают вопрос о древности чувашской столицы»]
1924 births
2013 deaths
24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet historians
Russian historians
Russian archaeologists
Soviet archaeologists
Soviet medievalists
Russian medievalists