Russian Archaeologists: Leo Klejn, Nicholas Marr, Boris Marshak, Natalia Polosmak, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Nikolay Kradin, Bobrinsky

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Leo Klejn, Nicholas Marr, Boris Marshak, Natalia Polosmak, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Nikolay Kradin, Bobrinsky, Alexander Avdonin, Michael Rostovtzeff, Boris Piotrovsky, Alexey Okladnikov, Ignatius Stelletskii, Valentin Yanin, Pyotr Kozlov, German Fedorov-Davydov, Sibirsky, Mikhail Artamonov, Fyodor Uspensky, Sergei Rudenko, Vasily Abaev, Nikodim Kondakov, Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin, Viktor Sarianidi, Boris Grakov, Aleksey Uvarov, Aleksandr Mongait, Boris Rybakov, Yevgeni Pakhomov, Archaeology of Russia, Vsevolod Miller, Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Yelena Yefimovna Kuzmina, Igor Dubov, Vasily Gorodtsov, Nikolay Veselovsky, Dmitry Samokvasov, Gennady Zdanovich, Boris Farmakovsky, Dmitry Machinsky. Excerpt: Lev Samuilovich Klejn (born 1927), better known as Leo Klejn, is a Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist. Klejn was born on 1 July 1927 in Vitebsk, Belarus, to two Jewish physicians, Polish-born Stanislav Semenovich (originally Samuil Simkhovich) and Asya Moysseevna. Both of Klejn's grandparents were wealthy: one a factory owner, the other a highly ranked merchant. Stanislav Semenovich served as a medical officer in the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War. By the end of the war he had joined the Red Army, but was never a member of the Communist Party. In 1941 both of Klejn's parents were drafted to serve in the Great Patriotic War, while the rest of the family were evacuated, first to Volokolamsk and then Egoryevsk near Moscow, and then to Yoshkar-Ola in the Mari ASSR. There Klejn worked on a collective farm before leaving school at the age of 16 and being attached to the 3rd Belorussian Front as a civilian. After the war the family settled in Grodno and Klejn studied for a year at a Railway Technical School. While still in high school Klejn created an underground liberal org...