Full Name: Okladnikov, A. P.
Other Names:
- Aleksei Pavlovich Okladnikov
Gender: male
Date Born: 1908
Date Died: 1981
Place Born: Konstantinovshchina, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
Place Died: Moscow, Russia
Home Country/ies: Russia
Subject Area(s): archaeology and prehistoric
Overview
Archaeologist and historian of prehistoric art and culture. For twenty-three years, Okladnikov served as a staff member of the USSR Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Archaeology in Leningrad. His research concentrated on the art of the Bronze Age in the Baikal region, and the monuments of the Neolithic Age. In 1961, Okladinov was appointed head of the humanities research department of the Institute of Economics in the USSR Academy of Science’s Siberian division. One year later, he became a professor and chair of the history department at Novosibirsk University. In 1968, Okladinov was received the title of academician by the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Selected Bibliography
Keramika drevnego poseleniia Kondon : Priamur’e. Novosibirsk: Izd-vo “Nauka,” Sibirskoe otd-nie, 1984; Ancient Art of the Amur Region: Ancient Art of the Russian Far East. New York: Abrams, 1981; and A. I Mazin. Pisanitsy reki Olekmy i Verkhnego Priamur’ia. AN SSSR, Sib. otd-nie, In-t istorii, filologii i filosofii. Novosibirsk: Nauka, Sib. otd-nie, 1976.
Sources
The Dictionary of Art
Contributors: LaNitra Michele Walker