Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
In the beginning of 1960-s Boris Rybakov, the informal leader of the Soviet archaeological science, organized a campaign against Mongait, which was blamed in non-patriotic views. However, this campaign quickly failed due to reluctance of many archaeologists to participate. In his book Archaeology in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics published in 1959 Mongait made reference to Victor Petrov, which at that time had a reputation of a Ukrainian nationalist stolen by Soviet secret services.
Ironically, this reference helped emigrants understand that Petrov in fact was alive and cooperated with Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), simply because any reference to "enemies of the people" would be impossible in Soviet publications.