Background
Pyotr Nikolaevich Tretyakov was born on November 12, 1909, in Kostroma, Russian Federation.
Pyotr Nikolaevich
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Stalin Prize
Saint Petersburg State University
USSR Academy of Sciences
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Stalin Prize
Pyotr Nikolaevich Tretyakov was born on November 12, 1909, in Kostroma, Russian Federation.
In his school years, Pyotr Nikolaevich worked at the ethnological station of the Kostroma Scientific Society of Local Lore, in the Kostroma State Museum, participated in the archaeological research of V.I.Smirnov.
In 1928-1950, Pyotr Nikolaevich was a researcher, deputy director (from 1941) of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1950-1959 he was director of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1959-1976 Pyotr Nikolaevich was a senior researcher at the Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) branch of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Pyotr Nikolaevich Tretyakov' studies are devoted to the origin and ancient history of the Eastern Slavs, the history of Ancient Russia and the emergence of the Old Russian nationality, include a time period from the Mesolithic to the early Middle Ages, geography cover the territory from the foothills of the Urals to Central Europe and from the White Sea to the Balkans and the Black Sea.
Pyotr Nikolaevich was a member of archaeological congresses and conferences in Slavic countries, as well as in Albania and Hungary. He was a member of the Polish Archaeological Society, a member of the Academic Council of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, lecturer of the Knowledge Society.
