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 Adaksina Svetlana Borisovna
Head Curator of the State Hermitage Museum, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage Museum
Born on July 12, 1960 in Leningrad.
In 1977 she graduated from secondary school 111 in Leningrad. In 1983 she graduated from the Department of Archeology, Faculty of History, Leningrad State University. A.A. Zhdanova.
Since 1982 she has been working at the State Hermitage:
1982-1987 - laboratory assistant of the Department of the Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia;
1987-1991 - Junior Researcher, the Department of the Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia;
1991-2007 - Researcher, Senior Researcher, Deputy Head of the Department of the Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia;
February 2007 - up to now - Deputy Director, Chief Curator.
From 2004 to 2007 - Head of the Postgraduate School of the State Hermitage;
Curator of the collection of applied arts of Central Asia (more than 6.000 exhibits).
She is a specialist in the field of medieval archeology of the Crimea, the author of over 40 academical articles and publications, a participant in international and Russian conferences and symposiums on the history and archeology of Crimea. From 1989 to the present, she has headed the South Crimean archaeological expedition of the State Hermitage. Over the years, the expedition explored the Byzantine fortress Aluston (modern Alushta), a monastery complex on the southeastern slope of Mount Ayu-Dag, in the Panair Bay, the famous Partenit basilica on the southern coast of Crimea. Since 2002, a systematic study of fortifications and residential buildings of the Genoese fortress Chembalo (Balaklava town) has been conducted.
S. B. Adaksina is a member of the Expert Council and various working groups of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation on amendments to the Law in the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation (Federal Law No. 54), on maintaining the State Catalog of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, on amendments to the "Instruction on accounting and storage", etc.
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