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Andrei Vladimirovich Epimakhov
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor,
Chief Researcher of the
Research Educational Centre for Eurasian research of SUSU,
Leading Researcher of the Institute of History and Archeology of Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctor of Historical Sciences A.V. Epimakhov combines scientific work with teaching at the Faculty of History of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities of SUSU. Since 1986 Andrei Vladimirovich has been the leader of archaeological expeditions units, since 2001 he has supervised archaeological practice of history students of SUSU. Under the guidance of A.V. Epimakhov a number of settlements and cemeteries of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age was studied; fundamentally new data on economic activities, lifestyle and social relations of the local population, its connections and migrations have been obtained.
The area of scientific interests of Andrei Vladimirovich Epimakhov includes various aspects of archeological science: questions of theory, historiography, field and analytical work technologies, etc. A.V. Epimakhov has received numerous grants for his research from Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, DAAD, and the Ministry of Education and Science. In particular, such topics as "Communications of Central Eurasia - from antiquity to modern age", "Culture, society and a human in the Paleometal Age (Ural and Western Siberia)", "Technology development and rational use of natural resources - from antiquity to modern age " (Ural and adjacent areas), "Synchronization of cultures and cultural processes across the Eurasian steppes, Eastern and Central Europe (based on the fortified settlements of the second half of the III – the beginning of the II millennium BC)" were supported.
A.V. Epimakhov is the author of more than 250 publications. His international scientific work is connected with implementation of major projects in collaboration with Cambridge and Oxford Universities, the University of Pittsburgh, Goethe University (Frankfurt on the Main), Free University of Berlin, the Universities of Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Zurich, Toronto, Danish University, etc. The range of scientific papers includes comprehensive field and analytical studies. The results obtained by A.V. Epimakhov are presented in more than 30 reports at international conferences (USA, Germany, Italy, Norway, Jordan, Czech Republic, etc.) and articles of leading specialized scientific journals such as "Nature", "Current Anthropology", "Germania","Journal of Indo-European Studies", "Cell", "Antiquity", “American Journal of Phisical Anthropology". Monographs are published in Cambridge, Oxford, Bonn and Paris. A special place in this list holds the book "The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Age" co-written with L.N. Koryakova for the Cambridge University Press publishing house, which received positive reviews of scientists and went through two editions.
A.V. Epimakhov was the supervisor of PhD thesis of the SUSU graduate I.V. Chechushkov, who is now continuing his studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The theme of research was "The chariot complex of the Late Bronze Age of the steppe and forest-steppe Eurasia (from the Dnieper to the Irtysh)."
In 2016 A.V. Epimakhov became the member of the editorial board of two international journals indexed by Scopus; he is a reviewer of the journals “Antiquity”, “Current Anthropology”, “Radiocarbon”, “Ural Historical Herald”, he is a member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) and the European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers (EAGE).
He was repeatedly awarded the diplomas of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region, he has an honourable mention of the envoy from the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District.
As a scientist, A.V. Epimakhov is characterized by such qualities as constant desire to expand the horizon of his knowledge, readiness to learn something new, the ability to put ideas into practice and perseverance in goals achievement.
Archeology is so diverse in form and in essence, that it actually takes up both the working and free time of A. V. Epimakhov, his intellectual, aesthetic and other needs find their satisfaction in his favorite occupation. After all, as the scientists say, archeology is not a science, but a way of life.
