Background
Anatoly was born in the workman's family.
Anatoly was born in the workman's family.
In 1963 he graduated from Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University (BSPU).
Doctorate (1971). Derevyanko is one of the youngest Doctors of Historical Sciences in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He got a degree in 1971, being 28 years old, for his doctoral thesis «Amur River Region in Antiquity (B C)». Derevyanko has developed the new spatiotemporal version of initial ways of Asia's settlement, created a periodization, chronology and dynamics of Paleolith in the region. He is the head of programme, which is dedicated to the compound research of paleolithic spelaean monuments in South Siberia and Cental Asia.
Anatoly Derevyanko was the chancellor of Novosibirsk State University for two years (1980-1982).
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.