Andrey A. Kudryavtsev

Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia 

E-mail: a-kudravtsev@yandex.ru

Keywords: A.V. Artsikhovsky, B.D. Grekov, P.N. Tretyakov, Institute for the History of Material Culture, Institute of Ethnography, international scientific relations, the Balkans.

In 1946, by decision of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an archaeological and ethnographic expedition including six researchers of the Institute for the History of Material Culture and the Institute of Ethnography was sent to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania. During two months of their work, participants of the expedition delivered lectures at local museums and universities, conducted ethnographic studies, examined archaeological collections, and established contacts with Balkan archaeologists. The article discusses expedition projects, its preparation, final publications and reports. Despite the general exploratory nature of the Balkan expedition and its failure to complete plans for joint archaeological research in Bulgaria, implementation of the expedition itself was of great importance both for the Soviet side and for researchers in the Balkan countries.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630010960-5