Background
Maria Foss was born on September 19, 1899, in Grodno, Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts', Belarus. She came from the family of civil servants.
Maria Foss
Voronezh State University
Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Voronezh State University
Maria Foss was born on September 19, 1899, in Grodno, Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts', Belarus. She came from the family of civil servants.
Maria Foss finished the female gymnasium in Voronezh. She studied at the historical and social-pedagogical department of the faculty of social sciences of the Voronezh State University, the archaeological department of the Voronezh branch of the Moscow Archaeological Institute, and at the Voronezh Conservatory. In 1922 Maria moved to Moscow, where she graduated from Moscow State University's archaeological department in 1925. Maria was a student Of V. A. Gorodtsov, Russian and Soviet archaeologist.
Maria worked as a research assistant at the Voronezh provincial Museum. She was a research assistant at the State Historical Museum since 1925 and at the Institute of the History of Material Culture (RAS) since 1944. In the summer of 1924, Maria participated in the survey of the Paleolithic stand in Kostenki village (Voronezh district). Together with the Voronezh museum staff and Leonov, she unearthed the burial of the Scythian-Sarmatian period in the tract "Frequent barrows". Since 1925 Maria conducted archaeological excavations in the North of the European part of the country.
