LYAVDANSKY Alexander

(10.HI.1893, der. Yurtev Smalevichy district of Minsk province - 27.YIII.1937, Minsk, shot)
Graduated in 1922. Smolensk branch of the Moscow Archaeological Institute. Studied at the Smolensk University, worked as a research fellow at the Smolensk Regional Museum and assistant professor at the University of Smolensk to 1927. Then he moved to Minsk, where he led the section of Archeology in BSSR until 1937, when he was repressed. Rehabilitated in 1958. Studies A. in the Smolensk region, covering a wide range of antiquities. He collected and published all available information at that time of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron. They carried large field survey and excavations: Neolithic parking near the village of Lower Nemykari and mound "Kovsharov" in Pochinkovskom area, . Settlement Lestroevskoe and Round Table in Smolensk and others, described in detail a complex of archaeological monuments in Gnezdovo, . In many places mounds excavated,
. In Belarus, L. expanded the range of his interests and began to study and excavations of ancient cities (Polotsk, Vitebsk, Orsha, Zaslavl, Borisov, etc.). More than 40 published works are devoted to their research results in the Smolensk region and in the BSSR. They first developed the classification of settlements and define their dating and ethnicity, determined the time of the Iron Age burial ground. Made a substantial contribution to the study of antiquities era of Kievan Rus. Vol.: Materials for the archaeological map of Smolensk Province., . 1924; Some data on the settlements of Smolensk Province., . 1926 Some data on the Stone Age and Bronze Age culture of Smolensk Province., . 1927; Arhealagichnyya dosledy have vodazborah rack Sozh, . Dnyapra i have Kaspli Smalenskay lips., . 1930 and others,