Yevhen Vasylovych Chernenko ( uk, Євген Васильович Черненко; 5 October 1934 – 3 January 2007) was a Ukrainian archaeologist. He was Professor of Archaeology at the

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

and an internationally renowned expert on

Scythian The Scythians or Scyths, and sometimes also referred to as the Classical Scythians and the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern * : "In modern scholarship the name 'Sakas' is reserved for the ancient tribes of northern and eastern Cent ...

archaeology.

Biography

Yevhen Vasylovych Chernenko was born on October 5, 1934, in the village of Buda, Malyn Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. During his evacuation to

Orenburg Oblast Orenburg Oblast (russian: Оренбургская область, ''Orenburgskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name ''Chkalov Oblast'' ...

along with his mother in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, Chernenko read the works of the German archaeologist

Heinrich Schliemann Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeolog ...

, which greatly impressed him. Cherneko graduated from the Department of History at the

in 1958, and was then sent to the Department of Scytho-Ancient Archaeology of the

NASU Institute of Archaeology The Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine ( uk, Інститут археології НАН України) is a research institute in Ukraine that is part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. It is the ...

, with which he would be affiliated for the rest of his life. He began his postgraduate studies in 1960 and defended his Ph.D. thesis on

military equipment in 1966. Since 1970, Chernenko was a

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at the NASU Institute of Archaeology. From 1981 to 1986 he was in charge of the Department for the Archaeology of the Early Iron Age. He participated in a number of archaeological expeditions, most notably the 1971 excavation of the Scythian tomb of Tolstaya Mogila. An internationally renowned scholar, no notable work on Scythian military affairs was published without references to the pioneering work of Chernenko. He was made a Corresponding Member of the

German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

in 1988, and awarded the title of Professor in 1992. Throughout his career, Chernenko published and edited a large number of articles and books. He also supervised doctoral studies at the NASU Institute of Archaeology and the Krymskyi Institute of Eastern Studies. Chernenko died in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

on January 3, 2007. In accordance with his will, the urn with the ashes of Chernenko were lowered in the Scythian

Borysthenes Borysthenes (; grc, Βορυσθένης) is a geographical name from classical antiquity. The term usually refers to the Dnieper River and its eponymous river god, but also seems to have been an alternative name for Pontic Olbia, a town situate ...

river.

References

* Галина Мезенцева. В кн.: Мезенцева Г. Дослідники археології України: Енциклопедичний словник-довідник. Чернігів: вид. «Рада», 1997. — C.146.

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1934 births 2007 deaths Academic journal editors German Archaeological Institute People from Zhytomyr Oblast Scythologists Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Ukrainian archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists {{Ukraine-academic-bio-stub

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