AKHINJANOV SERJAN M.: to the 80th anniversary since birth

Abstract

Serjan M. Akhinjanov was born in 1939 in Alma-Ata. After graduation of high school in 1957 he entered the Kazakh State University of S.M. Kirov to the department of history, from the second year he was transferred to Lomonosov Moscow State University to the department of archaeology. In 1964 Serjan M. graduated with honors from the department of history of the University majoring in “archaeology”. A famous scientist L.R. Kyzlasov was his mentor in the specialty and a head of the thesis. S.M. Akhinjanov continued training, having entered the postgraduate study at the Ch.Ch. Valikhanov Institute of history, archaeology and ethnography of the Academy of Science of Kazakh SSR. In 1968, after graduation from postgraduate study, a young scientist was left at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Academy of Science of KazSSR to work in the department of medieval history. In 1969 S.M. Akhinjanov was transferred to the department of archaeology where he took active part in the research of ancient settlement Otrar. In 1973 S.M. Akhinjanov defended the master’s thesis on a subject: “Cumans and their political relationship with Khwarezm in the 11–13th centuries”. Since 1984 Serjan M. began to manage laboratory of archaeological technology.