In memory of a scientist-archaeologist: from Malta, Kitoy, Ust-Belaya, Ilim and Verkholenskaya Gora to the banks of Vitim and Lena (on the 90^th anniversary of birthday of Mikhail Petrovich Aksienov)

This article is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of famous Soviet-Russian archaeologist, associate professor of the Department of Archaeology and Ethnography of Irkutsk State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences Mikhail Petrovich Aksyonov (24.11.1934 - 7.03.2002). The article analyzes field and research materials obtained in recent years by Irkutsk archaeologists of various field structural units. The problems of regional Paleolithic studies in general and the Upper Lena in particular, at the origins of the archaeology of which stood M.P. Aksyonov, are considered. The main results of the archaeological study of the Upper Lena in 2002-2024 are presented in the form of publications of materials from archaeological sites Shishkino 8, Kistenevo 9, Balyshovo 3, Chaika 2, Veshniy Ruchey, Lyubavskaya, Ust-Kulenga 1, Kartukhai 1, Ust-Ilga, Shalino 1 and, based on this background, the main ideas and contribution to the construction of a cultural-chronological model of the Stone Age of Northern Lena are given. The main objective of the article is to show the role of M.P. Aksyonov as the one of the foundesr of the archaeology of the Upper Lena, who laid the methodological basis for the modern stage of study and educated a generation of students who continued the main work of the teacher. Mikhail Petrovich Aksyonov stood at the origins of scientific knowledge, both in field research and in scientific leadership, helping to solve scientific problems for the younger generation of archaeologists of the Irkutsk State University. Archaeological research was continued in different areas of the Lena River, first of all, within the Makarovo-Shishkinsky Geoarchaeological Region, which plays a keypoint role for the Western Baikal region and the upper reaches of the Lena as a whole. Among the students of M.P. Aksenov, who continued the archaeological study of the Upper Lena, are V.M. Vetrov, S.N. Perzhakov, M.Yu. Semin, V.V. Krasnoshchekov, S.A. Peskov, A.V. Tetenkin, D.L. Shergin, A.A. Chebotarev and others.

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