Department of Medieval Archaeology

The Department (originally a Sector) of Slavic-Russian Archaeology was established at the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences) in 1951 by B.A. Rybakov through the merger of the Sectors of Ancient Russian Archaeology, headed by N.N. Voronin, and Slavic Ethnogenesis, headed by P.N. Tretyakov. From 1974, the department was headed by S.A. Pletneva, and from 1991, by A.V. Chernetsov.

In January 2015, the department was transformed into the Department of Medieval Archaeology. As a result of the reorganization, the groups on the archaeology of the Great Migration Period and Arctic archaeology were separated from it. The new department included the group on the archaeology of the Eurasian steppes. V.Yu. Koval was appointed Head of the Department of Medieval Archaeology. The department's main research areas include: chronology and classification of Slavic antiquities; ethno