The list of collections of the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences
Collection No. 1. Khvedir (Fedor) Kindratovych Vovk (Volkov) (1847–1918) – Ukrainian scholar, anthropologist, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, Doctor of Natural Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Petrograd University. In 1875 and 1876, participated in excavations in Kyiv and Volyn Governorates; in 1907 discovered the Paleolithic Mezin site in Chernihiv region; conducted ethnographic, geographic, and archaeological expeditions across Europe. Collection No. 1 – 5,104 storage units dating from 1870–1918.
Collection No. 2. Vikentiy (Chastoslav) Vyacheslavovych Khvoyka (1850–1914) – Ukrainian archaeologist. Studied the Paleolithic, Trypillian, Zarubyntsi, and Chernyakhiv cultures, as well as Old Rus sites. Discovered: Kyrylivska site (1893), sites on Baikova Hill and the Lybid River (1903) in Kyiv, in Kaniv (1901), and the Iskorosten site (1911); craft workshops on Kyselivka Hill; cemetery and dwellings in Vytachiv and Stari Bezradychi; Slavic sites in Kyiv and Bilhorodka.
Collection No. 2 – 2,645 storage units dating from 1893–1914.
Collection No. 3. Serhii Svyrydovych Hamchenko (1860–1932) – Ukrainian archaeologist. Research interests ranged from the Paleolithic to the Old Rus period. Surveyed over 40 Trypillian culture sites in Eastern Podillia, excavated in Volyn, Podillia, Kyiv, Kharkiv regions, and other parts of Ukraine. Vice President of the All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee (VUAK).
Collection No. 3 – 229 storage units dating from 1876–1931.
Collection No. 4. Ivan Fedorovych Levytskyi (1896–1952) – Ukrainian archaeologist, Paleolithic researcher. Studied north-eastern Volyn, Kolodiazhne, Hintsi, Amvrosiivka, Bohodukhiv, Kodak, Korosten. In 1931–1932, led the Paleolithic group of the DniproHES Expedition, discovering Late Paleolithic sites in the rapids area of the Dnipro, including Osokorova ravine.
Collection No. 4 – 24 storage units dating from 1925–1952.
Collection No. 5. Mykola Vikentiyovych Sybilov (1873–1943) – Ukrainian museum specialist and archaeologist. Researched Paleolithic sites in the Donetsk region along the Siverskyi Donets River, discovering 350 dune sites and settlements. Studied the Dronivska, Sychanska, Kamyanska, Prystenska, Mynivska and other sites. First identified microlithic and macrolithic cultures, tracing the evolution of tools.
Collection No. 5 – 177 storage units dating from 1920–1943.
Collection No. 6. Petro Ivanovych Smolichev (1891–1947) – Ukrainian archaeologist, museum specialist, and local historian. Studied sites from the Paleolithic to the Old Rus period and the mid-18th–19th centuries. Excavated in Chernihiv, Shestovytsia, Maslova, Kichkas, and the DniproHES flooding zone. In later years, conducted archaeological research in Tajikistan.
Collection No. 6 – 116 storage units dating from 1907–1933.
Collection No. 7. Oleksandr Semenovych Fedorovskyi (1885–1939) – Ukrainian archaeologist, geologist, paleontologist. Master’s degree holder, Professor at Kharkiv State University. Studied sites of various periods. Excavated in Volochansk, Verkhnij Saltiv, Kharkiv region, and the Donets River basin.
Collection No. 7 – 49 storage units dating from 1916–1930.
Collection No. 8. Ivan Mykhailovych Feshchenko (1896 – after 1944) – Ukrainian archaeologist. Specialist in the “fields of burials” culture. Excavated in the rapids area of the Dnipro from Dnipropetrovsk to Zaporizhzhia, and in the village of Pryvilne.
Collection No. 8 – 14 storage units dating from 1926–1940.
Collection No. 9. Danylo Mykhailovych Shcherbakivskyi (1877–1927) – Ukrainian archaeologist, historian, educator, museum specialist, and art historian. Research interests: Old Rus and medieval archaeology. Excavated in Kyiv and Kherson Governorates, as well as Podillia and Volyn.
Collection No. 9 – 553 storage units dating from 1892–1927.
Collection No. 10. Petro Petrovych Kurinnyi (1894–1972) – Ukrainian museum specialist, local historian, and archaeologist. Studied Trypillian, Bilohrudiv, and Pit-and-Comb Ware cultures. Excavated in the Middle Dnipro region.
Collection No. 10 – 56 storage units dating from 1905–1941.
Collection No. 11. Volodymyr Avtonomovych Hrinchenko (1900–1950) – Ukrainian museum specialist and archaeologist. Conducted excavations along the banks of the Vorskla River (1925), participant in the DniproHES construction expedition (1928–1931), where he discovered many archaeological sites dating from the Neolithic to the Late Middle Ages, including ancient pottery kilns from the 1st millennium AD in the Kanzirka gully.
Collection No. 11 – 11 storage units from 1925–1932.
Collection No. 12. Sylvestr Sylvestrovych Mahura (1897–1937) – Ukrainian museum specialist and archaeologist. Studied the Trypillian culture and ancient East Slavic sites. Conducted excavations in various regions of Ukraine.
Collection No. 12 – 7 storage units from 1921–1935.
Collection No. 13. Kyrylo Yukhymovych Korshak (1897–1938) – Ukrainian archaeologist, museum specialist, Candidate of Historical Sciences. Studied sites from the Paleolithic, Eneolithic (including Trypillian culture), and Bronze Age; carried out excavations in the Middle Dnipro region.
Collection No. 13 – 14 storage units from 1934–1938.
Collection No. 14. Arkadii Viktorovych Dobrovolskyi (1885–1956) – Ukrainian archaeologist, local historian, museum specialist, Candidate of Historical Sciences. Studied Neolithic, Bronze Age, Trypillian, and ancient Slavic sites. Conducted excavations in the Dnipro region, the Dnipro Rapids area, and Odesa region.
Collection No. 14 – 38 storage units from 1927–1954.
Collection No. 15. Olena Fedorivna Lahodovska (1899–1958) – Ukrainian archaeologist, museum specialist, Candidate of Historical Sciences. Studied sites from the Copper–Bronze transition: the megalithic and Usatove cultures, Late Trypillian sites of the Sandrak type, as well as the Komariv culture and burial sites from the Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Ages in the Dnipro Rapids area. Conducted excavations in Volyn and Vinnytsia regions.
Collection No. 15 – 40 storage units from 1933–1954.
Collection No. 16. Viktor Platonovych Petrov (1894–1969) – Ukrainian ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, culturologist, linguist, writer (pen name Viktor Domontovych), Doctor of Philological Sciences. Researched Slavic sites, including slash-and-burn agriculture, Zarubyntsi and Chernyakhiv cultures, Slavs of the second half of the 1st millennium, Slavic ethnogenesis, Slavic writing, Kyivan Rus monuments, as well as history, geography, hydronymy, onomastics, local history, folklore, ethnography, and mythology. Took part in archaeological expeditions: Southern Kyiv (1934), Raikovets (1935), Polissia (1936), Trypillian (1937–1938), Lubny (1939), Plesnesk (1940). Conducted excavations at the Raikovets and Horodok Kyivan Rus fortresses, Lokhvytsia, Kosanivka, and Baiv cemeteries of the Chernyakhiv culture, the Slavic settlement near Stecivka, the cemetery near Korchuvate, and other sites.
Collection No. 16 – 266 storage units from 1900–1969.
Collection No. 17. Lazar Moiseiovych Slavin (1906–1971) – Ukrainian and Russian archaeologist specializing in Classical archaeology; headed archaeological expeditions: Bosporan (1933–1936), Olbian (1936–1966), Bug-Dniester (1949–1952). Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at Kyiv State University, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1944–1946).
Collection No. 17 – 167 storage units from 1935–1971.
Collection No. 18. Dmytro Tarasovych Berezovets (1910–1970) – Ukrainian archaeologist who studied the Chernyakhiv culture and the Slavs of the second half of the 1st millennium. Discovered the Volyntsi and Penkivka cultures; studied Saltiv culture sites. Excavations in Sumy and Kirovohrad regions. Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Collection No. 18 – 38 storage units from 1947–1970.
Collection No. 19. Mykola Vasylovych Kuznetsov (1911–1944) – Ukrainian and Russian archaeologist whose research interests included East Finnic tribes of the 8th–13th centuries, Khazars, Volga Bulgars, Eastern Slavs, and the ancient Glagolitic alphabet. Excavations: Donetsk hillfort (1929–1930), Lubny (1939), Kyselivka in Kyiv (1940), and others. Museum specialist.
Collection No. 19 – 7 storage units from 1929–1941.
Collection No. 20. Feodosii (Todosii) Mykolaiovych Movchanivskyi (1899–1938) – Ukrainian archaeologist specializing in Kyivan Rus and medieval archaeology. Excavations: Raikovets barrow and cemetery on the Hnylopiat River (1926–1927); surveys in the villages of Yurivka, Vovchyntsi, Pohrebyshche, Huzhyn, Yahotyn, and others; studied the Raikovets hillfort (11th–13th centuries) (1929–1936) and the territory of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv (1937). Museum specialist.
Collection No. 20 – 17 storage units from 1920–1937.
Collection No. 21. Mykola Omelianovych Makarenko (1877–1938), Ukrainian archaeologist (in 1902–1919 carried out archaeological excavations and studied ancient architectural monuments in Novgorod, Poltava, Katerynoslav, Voronezh, Kharkiv, and Tver provinces; in 1925–1929 conducted excavations near the villages of Khalepya and Trypillia in Kyiv region, Opishnia in Poltava region, Vedmezhe in Romny region, Zvenyhorod in Sumy region, and others. In 1930 discovered a large Neolithic burial ground in Mariupol), museum scholar, art historian.
Collection No. 21 — 6 storage units from 1923, 1926.
Collection No. 22. Roman Oleksandrovych Yura (1927–1977), Ukrainian archaeologist (studied Kyivan Rus’ and medieval archaeology; excavations: in the construction zones of the Kremenchuk and Kaniv hydroelectric power stations, and ancient Rus’ towns of Voin, Kolodiazhyn, and Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in 1956–1976), Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Collection No. 22 — 66 storage units from 1951–1976.
Collection No. 23. Leonid Dmytrovych Dmytrov (1885–1965), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched ancient, Scythian-Sarmatian, and Slavic archaeology; excavations: Olbia and Berezan Island (1928–1939), Scythian burial mounds near Chortomlyk (1935–1936), Perekop (1940), Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (1945–1955)), Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Collection No. 23 — 63 storage units from 1940–1953.
Collection No. 24. Volodymyr Vasylovych Lapin (1928–1981), Ukrainian archaeologist (specialized in ancient archaeology; conducted excavations in Olbia (1956–1959), headed the expedition on Berezan Island (1960–1980)), Candidate of Historical Sciences, museum scholar, lecturer at Kyiv State University.
Collection No. 24 — 60 storage units from 1954–1980.
Collection No. 25. Yevheniia Fedorivna Pokrovska (1904–1995), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched Scythian-Sarmatian archaeology; excavations: Nemyrivske, Havrylivske (1938), Sharpivske (1938–1939), Khotiv and Khodosivka hillforts, burial mounds in Makiivka and Kutsivka (1947–1948), burial mounds in Ivanivka, Kyiv region (1949), Zhabotyn hillfort in Cherkasy region (1950), burial mounds in Zavadivka and Novopylypivka, Zaporizhzhia region (1951), Liubymivka hillfort (1952), and others; worked in the Middle Dnipro Right Bank (1955), Kremenchuk (1956–1958), and Kaniv (1960) expeditions), Candidate of Historical Sciences, artist.
Collection No. 25 — 108 storage units from 1948–1965.
Collection No. 26. Valentyn Mykolaiovych Danylenko (1913–1982), Ukrainian archaeologist (studied the ethnocultural development of the population of Eastern Europe in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and early Slavic period. Conducted excavations in the Dnipro Rapids region, on the Southern Buh River, researched the “Kamiana Mohyla” site, headed Donetsk salvage expeditions), Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Collection No. 26 — 219 storage units from 1946–1982.
Collection No. 27. Varvara Andriivna Illinska (1920–1979), Ukrainian archaeologist (studied Scythian culture, conducted excavations on the Sula, Psel, and Tiasmyn rivers, in the Porossia region, and in other parts of Ukraine), Doctor of Historical Sciences, (wife of O. I. Terenozhkin).
Oleksii Ivanovych Terenozhkin (1907–1981), Russian and Ukrainian archaeologist (conducted excavations in Central Asia, particularly in Khorezm; from 1948 until the end of his life worked in Ukraine, studied the Forest-Steppe and Steppe Right-Bank Scythia, identified the pre-Scythian stage, excavated the Melitopol and other Scythian burial mounds), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, (husband of V. A. Illinska).
Illinska–Terenozhkin Collection, No. 27 — 98 storage units from 1936–1981.
Collection No. 28. Yakiv Pavlovych Novytsky (1847–1925), Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, local historian, historian, archaeologist (authored numerous historical studies, archaeological statistical articles. His collected folklore materials are of great value and were published in collections: Little Russian Folk Legends and Tales (1876); Little Russian and Zaporizhzhia Antiquity in Monuments of Oral Folk Art (1907); Little Russian Historical Songs Collected in Katerynoslav Region, 1874–1903 (1908)).
Collection No. 28 — 7 storage units from 1884–1925.
Collection No. 29. Halyna Heorhiivna Mezentseva (Vinnytska) (1923–1997), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched the archaeology of Kyivan Rus’, ancient Slavs, ancient cities of the Northern Black Sea coast, the Kaniv settlement of the Polianians, and ancient Rus’ cities such as Kyiv, Rodnia, Bilhorod-Kyivskyi, and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi; participated in the Porossia expedition (1946), Olbia expedition (1947–1948), “Greater Kyiv” project (1949–1950), Chernihiv expedition (1956); headed expeditions: Kaniv (1957–1964), Bilhorod (1965–1975), Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (1977–1983)), historian, museum scholar, local historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Odesa State University (1977–1979), (in 1950–1976 taught at the Faculty of History of Kyiv State University).
Collection No. 29 — 158 storage units from 1946–1985.
Collection No. 30. Mykhailo Yakovych Rudynskyi (1887–1958), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched in Chernihiv, Poltava, Kyiv regions and the Dniester region; excavations: Paleolithic sites of Pushkari, Mezyn, Zhuravka, and in the Middle Dniester; Mesolithic and Neolithic sites on the Middle Desna River, and early Trypillian sites in Ozaryntsi in the Middle Dniester region), Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Collection No. 30 — 127 storage units from 1912–1958.
Collection No. 31. Ivan Ivanovych Artemenko (1924–1989), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched the Neolithic, Eneolithic, and Bronze Age of Eastern Europe; participated in the Dnipro expedition (1956–1965), headed the Middle Dnipro (1968–1980) and Trypillian (1981–1987) expeditions), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1973–1987).
Collection No. 31 — 97 storage units from 1967–1989.
Collection No. 32. Serhii Mykolaiovych Bibikov (1908–1989), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched the problems of the earliest settlement of Eastern Europe, the history and chronology of the Mesolithic period of southern USSR, and the agricultural and pastoral tribes of the 4th–2nd millennia BC in Southeastern Europe), ethnographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1955–1968).
Collection No. 32 — in the process of scientific and technical processing.
Collection No. 33. Makhno Yevheniia Volodymyrivna (1913–1992), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched early Slavic sites of the Zarubintsy, Chernyakhiv, and related cultures; led 40 archaeological expeditions in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Sumy, Poltava, Cherkasy, and Kherson regions), Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Research Fellow. Collection No. 33 — 168 storage units for 1938–1992.
Collection No. 34. Viazmitina Maria Ivanivna (1896–1993), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched sites in Central Asia, including Airtam and New Nisa, Late Scythian settlements and burial grounds on the Lower Dnieper, Sarmatian tribes in Ukraine, and Scythian art), art historian, museologist, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences. Collection No. 34 — 197 storage units for 1925–1972.
Collection No. 35. Bohusevych Volodymyr Andriiovych (1902–1978), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched Old Rus’ archaeology, art, and architecture; led archaeological expeditions in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Putyvl; participated in excavations in Novgorod), museologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences. Collection No. 35 — 40 storage units for 1947–1960.
Collection No. 36. Blifeld Davyd Isaakovych (1908–1966), Ukrainian archaeologist (studied the history of Eastern Slavs during the formation of the Old Rus’ state and Old Rus’ cities such as Kyiv, Chernihiv, Pereiaslav, Bilhorod, as well as early feudal burial grounds, including Shestovytsia near Chernihiv), Candidate of Historical Sciences. Collection No. 36 — 73 storage units for 1954–1965.
Collection No. 37. Shmahlii Mykola Mykhailovych (1931–1994), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched the Trypillian culture and the Early Bronze Age in Southeastern Europe; conducted excavations at the Troyaniv settlement in Volyn (1955–1958), the Trypillian settlement of Grebeni on the Dnieper (1959–1962), in the Dniester-Danube interfluve (1963–1973), and the Trypillian culture near Maidanetske in Cherkasy region (1974–1990)). Collection No. 37 is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 38. Shumovsky Yurii Fedorovych (1908–2003), Ukrainian archaeologist (researcher of West Africa and director of the French Institute of Black Africa in Sudan-Mali), Doctor, Professor at universities in New York and Freiburg, full member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the USA, priest. Collection No. 38 — 136 storage units for 1991–1997.
Collection No. 39. Klyushyntsev Volodymyr Mykolaiovych (1947–1998), Ukrainian archaeologist (studied kurgan burial grounds and settlements of the Bronze Age; worked in the Mykolaiv archaeological expedition since 1970), Candidate of Historical Sciences. Collection No. 39 is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 40. Kuchera Mykhailo Petrovych (1922–1999), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched Old Rus’ settlements, hillforts, and cities; defensive structures, including Troyan and Zmiiovi Walls; conducted archaeological research on the Right and Left Banks of the Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester region, Volyn, and other areas of Ukraine), Doctor of Historical Sciences. Collection No. 40 — 162 storage units for 1969–1995.
Collection No. 41. Kubyshev Anatolii Ivanovych (1938–2001), Ukrainian archaeologist (conducted excavations of an Old Rus’ settlement of the 11th–15th centuries near Komarivka, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi district, Kyiv region (1964–1968); studied the Zarubintsy culture site — Pyrohiv burial ground (1966–1972); worked in the Kakhovka (1969, 1970) and Kherson (from 1971) expeditions, later leading the Kherson expedition (1974–1992), researching Eneolithic–Early Bronze Age kurgans near Starosillia, Velyka Oleksandrivka, and Vasylivka; Catacomb culture burials; Bilozerska culture burial ground near Chernianka; kurgans with Srubna-Andronovo burials near Slynko; and numerous Scythian kurgans in Ukraine’s southern steppes). Collection No. 41 is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 42. Yevdokymov Hennadii Leonidovych (1947–2001), Ukrainian archaeologist (studied issues of the Middle Bronze Age in the steppe zone of southern Ukraine and Scythian monumental sculpture; participated in archaeological expeditions: Scythian Steppe, Kakhovka, Ordzhonikidze, Dnister, Mykolaiv, Southern Bug, Siverskyi Donets, Luhansk (1970–1976); led the Krasnoznamenska expedition (1976–1995)). Collection No. 42 is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 43. Mozolevsky Borys Mykolaiovych (1936–1992), Ukrainian archaeologist (researched Scythian kurgans, worked in multiple archaeological expeditions: Zaporizhzhia, Scythian Steppe, Scythian Forest-Steppe; led the Ordzhonikidze expedition from 1969 to 1987; discovered the burial of a Scythian king with a golden pectoral in the Tovsta Mohyla kurgan). Collection No. 43 — 177 storage units.
Collection No. 44. Diachenko Vasyl Dmytrovych (1924–1996), Ukrainian anthropologist, headed the paleoanthropology sector at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ukrainian Anthropological Expedition of the M.T. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology; participated in anthropological expeditions in the European part of the Russian Federation, North Caucasus, Moldova, Poland, Estonia, Slovakia, Serbia, and excavations of Old Rus’ and medieval burial grounds in Kyiv; authored about 90 scientific works on anthropological aspects of the ethnic history of ancient and modern populations of Ukraine and Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe. Collection No. 44 — 33 storage units.
Collection No. 45. Shaposhnikova Olimpiada Havrylivna (1923–2001), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the Eneolithic and Bronze Age of Ukraine’s steppe zone; participated in numerous archaeological expeditions: “Great Kyiv” (1948–1949), Nikopol-Havrylivka in Kherson region (1950–1952), Priazovska (1962), Inhulska (1967–1980), and later the Mykolaiv new construction expedition (1981–1988), which she led from 1969; studied the Mykhailivka settlement (1953–1960). Collection No. 45 is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 46. Movsha Tamara Hryhorivna (1922–2003), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in Eneolithic-Bronze Age archaeology, researched the Trypillian culture; led the Podillia archaeological expedition of the Kyiv Historical Museum, conducting excavations and surveys in Khmelnytskyi region (1960–1974); worked in the Dnister comprehensive new construction expedition (1976, 1979) and the Trypillian comprehensive expedition of the Institute of Archaeology (1981–1987); conducted excavations in the Middle Dnister and Southern Bug regions. Collection is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 47. Chernenko Yevhen Vasyliovych (1934–2007), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sites; worked in expeditions: Nikopol (1961, 1964, 1965), Ordzhonikidze (1971), Kerch (1961, 1964, 1971), Krasnoznamianska (1968–1975), Scythian (1986, 1987); conducted excavations of Scythian kurgans in Kirovo, Dnipropetrovsk region (1961), near Skadovsk, Kherson region (1961–1962), in Nikopol (1964, 1965), and Early Iron Age kurgans in Lenine, Kerch Peninsula (1964). Collection is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 48. Berezanska Sofiia Stanislavivna (1924–2024), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the Bronze Age (Tshinec-Komariv culture near Zdvizhivka, Kyiv region, 1964; Sosnytsia variant of the Eastern Tshinec culture near Pustynky, Chernihiv region, 1964–1967; multi-roller ceramics near Yablunivka, Kyiv region, 1970; Neolithic settlement near Hryshivka, Chernihiv region, 1969–1971; Srubna culture settlement “Usove Lake,” 1975–1977; Srubna period settlement near Rubtsi, Donetsk region, 1956; Bilogrudivka-type ash mounds on the Horyn River, 1973; excavations near Adamivka, Domontovo, and Iskovshchyna, Cherkasy region, 1956–1962; surveys near Kapitanove, Luhansk region, and in the drainage systems of Northern Ukraine, Upper and Lower Bilotserkivske reservoirs, and the Desna River, 1967–1972); worked in Middle Dnieper (1951–1952), Left Bank Seiminska (1953–1954), Kremenchuk Pre-Scythian (1958), and other expeditions. Collection is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 49. Parshyna Olena Oleksandrivna (b. 1932), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in ancient archaeology, conducted excavations in Crimea: Yalta, Livadia, Simeiz, Ai-Todor and Khachla-Kaiasy mountains, Biyuk-Isar rock (1965–1969); settlements: Chersonese, Eski-Kermen, Laspi, Sotera, Uchan-Su-Isar, Frunzenske (Partenit), and others (1970–1992). Collection is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 50. Nekrasova Hanna Mykolaivna (b. 1951), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the Chernyakhiv culture; conducted excavations (with V.D. Baran) of the early Slavic settlement Rashkiv (1978), early Slavic settlement of the 3rd–5th centuries CE near Teremtsi (1979–1980), Chernyakhiv settlement near Khlopkiv, Kyiv region (1982–1984), Chernyakhiv burial ground in Sad, Sumy region (1983–1984), Chernyakhiv burial ground and settlement near Boromlia, Sumy region (1987–1991), and rescue excavations of a Chernyakhiv settlement near Bilopillia, Sumy region. Collection contains 68 storage units.
Collection No. 51. Baran Volodymyr Danylovych (1927–2019), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the ethnogenesis and early history of Slavs and ethnocultural processes in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1st millennium CE; led the Dnister Slavic and Right Bank Slavic archaeological expeditions; conducted excavations of Chernyakhiv and early medieval Slavic sites: Cherepyn and Chyzhykiv (1954–1956), Ripniv and Rakobovuty in Lviv region (1957–1961), Bovshiv and Demianiv in Ivano-Frankivsk region (1962–1964), Remezivtsi in Ivano-Frankivsk region (1965), Zelenyi Hai in Ternopil region (1966–1967), Makarivka (1969), and three Slavic settlements of the 5th–9th centuries in Rashkiv, Chernivtsi region, Teremtsi, Khmelnytskyi region (1980–1981), and Khlopkiv, Kyiv region (1982–1986), and Kuropatnyky in Ivano-Frankivsk region (1987–1988). Collection is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 52. Bratchenko Stanislav Nykiforovych (1936–2011), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the Middle Bronze Age in southern Ukraine and the Don region; participated in Voroshylovhrad, Donetsk, Left Bank Cherkasy new construction, and other archaeological expeditions.
Collection No. 53. Telehin Dmytro Yakovych (1919–2011), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the history of Ukraine’s population during the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Copper Age, as well as adjacent territories of Eastern Europe; served as head of the Stone Age artifacts department at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Collection No. 54. Makarevych Mykhailo Leontiiovych (1901–1988), Ukrainian archaeologist, artist, draftsman; researched Trypillian culture and Early Bronze Age sites; participated in Trypillian expeditions: excavations in Kolodiazhne (1929–1930), Kolomyishchyna in the 1930s, Horodsk in 1939, Mykhailivka in the 1940s, Pavoloch in 1948, and on the Southern Bug — Hranivka and Sabatynivka in the 1950s.
Collection No. 55. Dovzhenok Vasyl Yosypovych (1909–1976), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched the history and archaeology of Slavs and Kyivan Rus’, Old Rus’ cities, hillforts, settlements, economy, and the formation of feudalism; led numerous archaeological expeditions excavating early Slavic and Old Rus’ settlements and hillforts, including Sakhnovka, Ivankivtsi, Komarivka, Vyshhorod, Volynsteve, Voin, Chuchyn, Polovetskyi Khutir, and others; headed the sector of Slavic-Rus’ and medieval archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Collection No. 56. Maps and Plans Collection (1764–1944), maps and plans of the locations of archaeological sites in Ukraine.
Collection No. 57. Glass Plate Negatives Collection (1897–1941), glass plate negatives from archaeological research and personal collections of the pre-war period.
Collection No. 58. “Museum of Antiquities” (1824–1925), materials of the Museum of Antiquities at St. Volodymyr University in Kyiv (catalogs, descriptions, registers, inventory books of archaeological finds, correspondence with societies, institutions, and individuals).
Collection No. 59. VUAK (All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee) (1918–1934), documents on the development of archaeology in Ukraine, measures for the preservation of historical and cultural monuments, and archaeological research of this period; includes branches related to archaeological expeditions: VUAK/Dnipro, VUAK/Donetsk Hillfort, VUAK/Kyiv, VUAK/Olbia, VUAK/Raiky.
Collection No. 60. IIMK (Institute of the History of Material Culture) (1934–1938), materials represented by scientific reports and field documentation of expeditions; divided by expeditions: IIMK/Boges, IIMK/Vyshhorod, IIMK/Hintsi, IIMK/Desna, IIMK/Zaporizhzhia, IIMK/Kyiv, IIMK/Korosten, IIMK/Crimea, IIMK/Scientific Notes, IIMK/Nikopol, IIMK/Olbia, IIMK/Raiky, IIMK/Sosnytsia, IIMK/Stara Buda, IIMK/Polissia, IIMK/Trypillia.
Collection No. 61. IA (Institute of Archaeology) — Pre-War (1938–1941), materials represented by scientific reports and field documentation of expeditions; divided by expeditions: IA/Augustynivka, IA/Berdyzh, IA/Horodsk, IA/Desna, IA/Dnipro, IA/Illiinka, IA/Kyiv, IA/Kyselovo, IA/Lubny, IA/Nikopol, IA/Olbia, IA/Poltava, IA/Burial Fields, IA/Middle Dnieper, IA/Scythian, IA/Trypillia, IA/Sharpivske Hillfort.
Collection No. 62. IA (Institute of Archaeology) — Post-War (from 1945) (Administrative), documents of the administration; documents of the Scientific Secretary; minutes of the Academic Council; thematic and working plans of research, reports; reports on postgraduate activities; open letters; documents on international scientific cooperation; documents of scientific departments: meeting minutes, work plans, reports on research activities; personnel, accounting, and local committee documents.
Collection No. 63. Scientific Works Collection (from 1945), scientific works on Ukrainian archaeology (monographs, articles, research developments); original dissertations for Candidate and Doctor of Historical Sciences degrees; planned research topics.
Collection No. 64. Expeditions Collection (from 1945), scientific reports of archaeological expeditions on excavations and surveys of archaeological sites in Ukraine.
Collection No. 65. Prakhov Adrian Viktorovych (1846–1916), Ukrainian art historian, archaeologist, art critic; received a doctoral degree in 1879 after defending a dissertation on “The Architecture of Ancient Egypt”; studied and depicted the remains of mosaics and wall paintings of St. Sophia Cathedral, frescoes of St. Cyril’s Church in Kyiv, and St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery; from 1884 to 1896, led works in the newly built Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, involving V. Vasnetsov in the murals.
Collection No. 66. Vetshtein Ryva Yonivna (1912–1999), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched ceramic production in Olbia in the first centuries CE; participated in excavations in Olbia and Tyra (1946–1968).
Collection No. 67. Yefymenko Petro Petrovych (1884–1969), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in Paleolithic studies; director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1945–1954); first to summarize the history of primitive society, developed excavation methods for Paleolithic sites, stratigraphic analysis of burial grounds, and provided the periodization of Paleolithic sites in the USSR; Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, International Union of Prehistorians, and Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory in Florence.
Collection No. 68. Krapivina Valentyna Volodymyrivna (1950–2013), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in ancient archaeology; researched the history, economy, and culture of Olbia in the 1st–4th centuries; conducted excavations in Olbia from 1976, became deputy head of the Olbia expedition in 1982, and led it from 1995; member of the Supervisory Board of the NIAZ “Olbia,” Field Committee of the Institute, and Ukrainian-Romanian Commission on History, Archaeology, Ethnology, and Folklore under the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Collection No. 69. Gladilin Vladyslav Mykolaiovych (1935–2015), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in Paleolithic archaeology; authored a classification scheme for the Early and Middle Paleolithic based on a system of hierarchical features, significantly influencing Paleolithic studies in the 1970s–1990s; discovered and researched the Korolevo Paleolithic site in Zakarpattia (1974), a globally significant event; considered the founder of the modern Paleolithic school in Ukraine; as a student, participated in the Kamiana Mohyla expedition led by M.Ya. Rudynsky (1957); conducted excavations at the Antonivka I and II sites; led the Zakarpattia Paleolithic expedition from 1969.
Collection No. 70. Kryzhytsky Serhii Dmytrovych (1932–2018), Ukrainian archaeologist, Doctor of Architecture, specialist in ancient archaeology and architecture, Professor (1991), Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1990); laureate of the State Prizes of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2002) and Architecture (2007); head of the “Olbia” Reserve (from 1974), led the Department of Ancient Archaeology (1981), deputy director of the Institute for scientific work (1987–2003); led the Bilhorod-Tyra expedition (1969–1971); participated in Olbia excavations from 1964 and led the Olbia expedition (1972–1994).
Collection No. 71. Leipunska Nina Oleksandrivna (1930–2008), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in ancient archaeology; worked in the Olbia expedition (1956–2008), led excavations of individual sections, including the central residential quarter near the agora (1972–1979), remains of the western city gate complex (1978–1984), and Hellenistic residential quarters in the Lower City at the NGS site (1985–2006).
Collection No. 72. Nazarov Volodymyr Volodymyrovych (1956–2004), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in ancient archaeology; participated in the Olbia, Kherson, Berezan, and Olbia Peripheral expeditions from 1982; conducted underwater research in the Berezan Island waters (1980s–1990s) and Tendrivska Spit (1984); led the Berezan expedition (1989–2004). Collection is under scientific-technical processing.
Collection No. 73. Baranov Ihor Avenirovych (1946–2001), Ukrainian archaeologist, researched medieval Crimean archaeology and history, full member of the Crimean Academy of Sciences, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (2000); a leading Eastern European specialist in Byzantine and Khazar archaeology and history; addressed key issues of the Crimean variant of the Saltovo-Mayatsk culture, studied Byzantine and Golden Horde presence in Crimea, Genoese history, epigraphy, and fortification; led the Sudak expedition (1977–2001), conducting unprecedented large-scale research of medieval Sugdea (Sudak).
Collection No. 74. Tolochko Petro Petrovych (1938–2024), Ukrainian archaeologist, specialist in the archaeology and history of Kyivan Rus’, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1981), Professor (1988), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1990); laureate of the State Prizes of the Ukrainian SSR (1983) and Ukraine (2002), M.I. Kostomarov Prize of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1992); political, public, and cultural figure; headed the Institute of Archaeology (1987–2016).