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Jan 21, 1892 Samara, Samara Oblast, Russia Died on 02 Aug 1953 (aged 61)
Archaeologist, ethnographer
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About Boris Kuftin
- Boris Alekseevich Kuftin (February 2, 1892, in Samara, Russia - August 2, 1953, in Lielupe (now a part of Jurmala) was a Soviet archaeologist and ethnographer.
- From 1933 to 1953, he worked in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.
- In the 1930s, he discovered the Trialeti culture; and in 1940, he coined the term Kura-Araxes.
- He participated in the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition in the 1940s-1950s.Kuftin became a member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in 1946.
