UDMURT CORRESPONDENTS OF ARCHAEOLOGIST O.N. BADER

Abstract

The article is devoted to a little-studied period in the history of archaeological research on the territory of Udmurtia in the post-war years, as reflected in letters addressed to the famous archaeologist Otto Nikolayevich Bader. O. N. Bader worked at the Perm (Molotov) University from the second half of the 1940s until 1954, he formed a scientific archaeological school. Together with his students, he engaged in the archaeological study of the vast Ural-Volga region, including the territory of Udmurtia. O. N. Bader maintained contacts with many scientific, educational and museum organizations. The article publishes letters addressed to the scientist from the director of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature under the Government of the Udmurt ASSR (UdNII) I.F. Kutyavin, the director of the Republican Museum of Local Lore M.N. Sutyagin and researcher of the UdNII A.F. Trefilov. They allow us to see the direction and content of archaeological research, participation of the UdNII and the Republican Museum of Local Lore in them. The letters reflect the formation process of archaeological personnel for Udmurtia, in particular, the beginning of the scientific biography of the famous Soviet archaeologist V.F. Gening. The letters reflect the process of work on the two-volume edition "Essays on the history of the Udmurt ASSR" in terms of writing sections on ancient and medieval history. They reveal the daily life of the researchers in the post-war years. The letters are part of a significant epistolary heritage - letters addressed to O.N. Bader in Perm in the 1940s-1950s. They are kept in the Museum of History of the Perm State Research University and are given to the author for study.