N.P.PODUSHKIN AT THE ORIGINS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN KAZAKHSTAN: EARLY FIELD STUDIES, MENTORS, AND TEACHERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the founders of archaeological science in South
Kazakhstan, a major researcher of archaeological sites of the Late Iron Age in the region. The name of
Nikolai Pavlovich Podushkin is associated with the first works on the early settlements of the Arys River
basin in the 60-70s of the XX century, the results of which showed the scientific community a high level of
development of the material and spiritual culture of the ancient settled agricultural population of Southern
Kazakhstan.The publication highlights the issues of the formation of N.P. Podushkin as a scientistarchaeologist of a regional scale, whose fate and career were greatly influenced by the iconic outstanding
major researchers-archaeologists of the Academy of Sciences. Bernstam, A.H. Margulan, K.A. Akishev,
E.I. Ageeva and G.I. Patsevich, and others with whom he had personal contact and who directly influenced
him in the context of his claim as a scientist.The work uses rare sources, provides exclusive data and facts
from the personal photographic and scientific archive of N.P. Podushkin, which have never been publicly
available before.