HISTORY OF FORMING THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN KYAKHTA LOCAL LORE MUSEUM (THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES)
Ya. V. Dikii
Institute of Mongolian Buddhism and Tibetology, SB RAS, 6, Sakh’yanovoy str., Ulan-Ude, 670047, Russian Federation
Keywords: Кяхта, музей, исторический источник, коллекция, археологическая коллекция, Бурятия, Ю.Д. Талько-Грынцевич, П.С. Михно, А.П. Мостиц, Kyakhta, museum, historical source, collection, archaeological collection, Buryatia, Yu. D. Talko -Gryntsevich, P. S. Mikhno, A. P. Mostits
Abstract
The article deals with the formation of the first archaeological collections in Buryatia stored in the oldest museum of East Siberia - Kyakhta Local Lore Museum; gives the chronology of their creation and territorial coverage. The author defines an archaeological collection as a complex historical source, which includes the material remains of ancient human life united by the principle of origin, authorship, belonging to the historical era, as well as written documents of scientists-archaeologists, who excavated and studied these archaeological materials. The collection of artifacts created by Yu. D. Talko-Gryntsevich, A. P. Mostits, P. S. Mikhno and other first archaeologists studied the antiquities of Buryatia became a necessary basis that contributed to humanitarian science development in Buryatia. The collections are accompanied by published and unpublished written materials - reports, office documents, letters; this is what makes them a comprehensive historical source.
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