Background
Nikolai Vasilyevich Valukinsky was born in 1886 in Michurinsk, Tambovskaya oblast, Russian Federation.
archaeologist artist ethnographer
Nikolai Vasilyevich Valukinsky was born in 1886 in Michurinsk, Tambovskaya oblast, Russian Federation.
He graduated from the Voronezh Technical Railway School (1904), the Kiev Art College (1915).
Under the leadership of P. P. Efimenko studied the settlements and barrows in Voronezh and its environs (the second half of 1920s-1930s).
Nikolai Vasilyevich worked as a draftsman of railway design organizations (1904-1909). He was the teacher of one of the Voronezh schools, the teacher of the art-industrial technical school (1922-1925). Director (1925-1930), deputy director, researcher (1930-1941) of the Voronezh Regional Museum of Local Lore.
Since 1942 he lived in Kyrgyzstan, since 1945 - in Kazakhstan. He was a technician-hydrologist of the Dzhezkazgan copper plant (since 1945), where in 1947 he created a geological and mineralogical museum (since 1950 it was named after him).
Nikolai Vasilyevich Valukinsky conducted excavations on the Kuznetsovsky (Kozarsky) hillfort (early 1930s, together with D.D. Leonov); the results of this work are summarized in the Valukinsky's book "Po sledam drevnih predkov" (Voronezh, 1940) and the article "Materials to the Archaeological Map of Voronezh" ("Soviet Archeology." 1948. Volume 10.He participated in the work on the "Encyclopedic dictionary of the Centralno-Chernozemnaya region" (Voronezh, 1934. volume 1).
Paintings of Valukinsky were shown at art exhibitions in Voronezh (1918-1919).
In the archive of A.M. Gorky preserved the correspondence with Valukinsky.