On new buildings in Krasnodar (unpublished materials from the pre-war works of N. V. Anfimov)

Abstract

Aim. To consider and analyze the initial period of the Kuban archaeologist Nikita Vladimirovich Anfimov’s scientific activity in the 1930s at the new buildings in Krasnodar.
Methodology. The analysis of archival materials and documents of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Krasnodar Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E. D. Felitsyn, the State Archive of the Krasnodar Territory was carried out. Comparative-historical and problem-chronological methods of studying the processes of regional archeology formation were used in the study.
Results. The article contains materials and documents on the research of new-construction expeditions of the Krasnodar Museum of Local Lore in the 1930s: Krasnodar burial ground behind the leather factories near the Athos ridge, the mound on the territory of the distillery “Pervenets Kubansky”, “the settlement on the Dubinka” and the site for the construction of Krasnodar Thermal power plant. Previously unpublished archival documents are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, as well as a few little-known published materials are collected.
Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the history of the archeology of the North Caucasus. This work is of undoubted interest to researchers of ancient cultures of the North Caucasus, since for the first time the materials of pre-war field studies of the archaeological sites of Kuban are published. The materials presented in the article can be used in courses on the history of Russian archaeology, as well as in the study of certain aspects of the archaeology of the Early Iron Age of the Caucasus.