Svetlana Kochkurkina
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Svetlana Ivanovna Kochkurkina (Russian: Светлана Ивановна Кочкуркина; born 16 April 1940 in Denov) is a Soviet-Russian archaeologist.[1]
She has been awarded the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Scientist of the Karelian ASSR, and Sampo Prize.[citation needed]
Life
Kochkurkina studied at Petrozavodsk State University, specializing in history.[2] After graduating with honors in 1962, she was employed in the history sector of the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (АН СССР) in Petrozavodsk.[1]
After completing her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Moscow, Kochkurkina successfully defended her dissertation on the kurgans of the Lake Ladoga region in 1969, earning the title of Candidate of History.[3]
Kochkurkina's research focused on the socio-economic and cultural history of the Karelians, Veps, and Russians in Karelia.[4] As leader of archaeological expeditions, she explored the Olonets fortress, the Klimenets Holy Trinity Monastery and other monasteries, as well as kurgans. From 1971 to 1974, she led fieldwork at Tiversk.
From 1984, Kochkurkina headed the Archaeology Department of the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Scientific Center, as well as the Karelian Scientific Center's Archaeological Museum. [5] Items from the museum's collection are exhibited in the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia , the Hermitage Museum, and museums in Kuopio, Olonets, and Sortavala. In 1985, she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on ancient Korela, receiving her doctorate in history.[6]
Works
- Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences; Kochkurkina, Svetlana (2022). "Coins as a Chronological Indicator of the Ladoga Kurgan Culture". Stratum Plus: Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology (6): 161–167. doi:10.55086/sp226161167. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - (Орфинская), Olga (Ольга) Orfinskaya (2016-12-10). "Kochkurkina, Orfinskaya. Archaeological textiles of the 10th to the 12th century from the Gaigovo barrow group (Russia, Leningrad oblast). Archaeological Textiles Review No. 58". Academia.edu (in Latin). Retrieved 2026-05-23.