NATALIA BORISOVNA CHERNYKH Author: A. A. Karpukhin, S. V. Kuzminykh N. B. Chernykh, together with B. A. Kolchin, was one of the founders of dendrochronology as a scientific direction at the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She came to archaeology as a student at Moscow University. The topic of the diploma and the material for the first publication were fabrics from the Nerevsky excavation site in medieval Novgorod. N. B. Chernykh joined the newly formed dendrochronology group in 1960. In 1961, she became a full-time employee of the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the first years, the activity of the office was aimed at studying the materials of excavations in medieval Novgorod. Since 1962, continuing the development of the Novgorod arboretum, N. B. Chernykh began studying the wood of the ancient Beloozero. The result was the second absolutely dated dendrochronological scale of medieval cities in Eastern Europe. By 1964, when the number of wood collections received for processing significantly increased (Mstislavl, Toropets, Pinsk, Smolensk, etc.), B. A. Kolchin and N. B. Chernykh formulated a common promising topic - "Dendrochronology of the Middle Ages of Eastern Europe". At the same time, Natalia Borisovna began work on dating boards of ancient Russian icons from the State Historical Museum. In the second half of the 1960s, wood collections from medieval monuments in Northeastern Latvia (Araishi, Usuri, Koknesse (Kukenoisa)) were also processed. By the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the arboretum of the Oreshek fortress was created and the results of dendrochronological studies of archaeological sites in Eastern Europe were summed up. In the 1970s, wood samples from the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery were processed. Brest, Slutsk, David-gorodok, Koporye, Priozersk (Korely), Rurik's hillfort, Polotsk, Ivangorod. Simultaneously, N. B. Chernykh and B. A. Kolchin worked on the preparation of the monograph "Dendroch ... Read more