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Svitlana Bilyayeva

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Svitlana Bilyayeva
Світлана Олександрівна Біляєва
Born28 March 1946
Dzaoudzhau, North Ossetia
Alma materVoronezh State University
Occupation(s)Leading researcher at the Institute of Archeology, NAS of Ukraine

Svitlana Oleksandrivna Bilyayeva (Ukrainian: Світлана Олександрівна Біляєва, born 28 March 1946) is an archaeologist, who specialises in the ancient and medieval history of Ukraine, the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

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Bilyayeva was born on 28 March 1946 in Dzaudzhikau in North Ossetia.[1]

Career and education

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She studied history at Voronezh State University from 1964, graduating in 1969.[2] From 1969 to 1981 she worked as a researched at the Institute of Archaeology in Ukraine.[2] In 1978 she was awarded a Masters, with a dissertation on the archaeology of "South Russian lands in the second half of the 13th-14th centuries".[2] From 1981 to 1987 she was the Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology.[2] From 1987 to 1996 she was a senior researcher at the institute.[2] In 2012 she was awarded a PhD in Archaeology for her research on "Relations between East Slavic and Turkic worlds in XIII-XVIII centuries".[2] Since 2013 she was worked as a lecturer at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[3] She is Professor of History at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.[4]

Bilyayeva is on several academic and heritage boards, including: the Ukrainian UNESCO Committee,[5] the editorial board for "Сходознавство" ("The Oriental Studies") published by NAS Ukraine,[4]

Research

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Bilyayeva has worked extensively on the excavations at Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) and synthesised archaeological and historical data from there.[6][7] From 2006 to 2010 she was director of the Akkerman Fortress Project.[8] She led excavations into a previously unknown 14th century Lithuanian city near the village of Tyaginka in the Beryslav region, which was sited upon the previous settlement of the Golden Horde.[9] She has led research into the Tyagin fortress, which was the southernmost defensive structure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[10] She has excavated and researched Ottoman monuments in Ukraine, including at Ochakiv (Özü).[11]

References

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  1. ^ Біляєва (Бєляєва) Світлана Олександрівна // Інститут археології Національної академії наук України. 1918—2014 / Гол.редактор — П. П. Толочко. — К.: ВД «АДЕФ-Україна», 2015. — 668 с. — С.345
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Біляєва Світлана Олександрівна". iananu.org.ua. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  3. ^ "Світлана Біляєва. Видавничий дім Києво-Могилянська Академія". publish-ukma.kiev.ua. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  4. ^ a b "Редколегія".
  5. ^ "Експедиція, якої не чекали". www.golos.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  6. ^ Faroqhi, Suraiya (2018). "Making Things to Serve Sultans, Viziers and Army Commanders (1450-1800)". The Medieval History Journal. 21 (1): 69–99. doi:10.1177/0971945817750509. hdl:20.500.12154/349. ISSN 0971-9458.
  7. ^ Peacock, A.C.S, ed. (2009). The Frontiers of the Ottoman World. British Academy. doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-173479-3.
  8. ^ "Akkerman Fortress Project | Research at the BIAA | BIAA". biaa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  9. ^ "На Херсонщині археологи виявили залишки кримськотатарського середньовічного міста (Відео)". www.nas.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  10. ^ Антипенко, Іван. "Дослідження Тягині і вежі Вітовта - Науковці НАН України продовжують археологічні розкопки на Херсонщині".
  11. ^ Islamic art and architecture in the European periphery : Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural region. Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara., Gierlichs, Joachim., Heuer, Brigitte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2008. p. 39. ISBN 978-3-447-05753-0. OCLC 318525989.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)