German Alexeyevich Fedorov-Davydov (Russian: Герман Алексеевич Федоров-Давыдов) (17 July 1931 – 13 April 2000) was a Russian and Soviet historian, archaeologist,

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...

and art historian, professor of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. German Fedorov-Davydov was born in a family of highly educated, impoverished nobility, with old tradition of science; one of his ancestors, Davydov, was a 19th-century rector of the Moscow University. German Fedorov-Davydov graduated from the Moscow State University Historical division in 1954 majoring in archeology. In 1969 he became a professor in the Archeology Institute of the USSR Academy of Science, his post-graduate and doctoral monographs were "'' Altyn Orda'' coin hoards" (1957), and "East European Nomads from 10th to 14th centuries" (1966). German Fedorov-Davydov was a field archeologist. From 1950 he constantly participated in archeological expeditions: to Khoresm,

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, Chuvashia,

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. From 1960 to 1990, Fedorov-Davydov headed the

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regional archeological expedition of the Moscow University and Archeology Institute. In his publications German Fedorov-Davydov illuminated actual historical problems almost state-forbidden at that time. German Fedorov-Davydov was instrumental in organization of wide scale excavation of the capital Sarai ( Sarai Berke and Sarai Djadid, New and Old Sarais), and other cities in the Volga region. G. Fedorov-Davydov continued traditions of pre-revolutionary orientalists - numismatists (H.M.Fren, P.S.Savelyev, and others), contributing to the knowledge in the field, including the birth and development of the Russian monetary system and terminology. German Fedorov-Davydov is an author of about 230 scientific and popular-scientific works, including 26 books. His monographs ''"East European Nomads under rule of Altyn Orda Khans"'' (1966), ''"Social order of

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"'' (1973), ''"Art of nomads and Golden Horde"'' (1976) became classical for the period of Early Middle Age world of the Euroasian steppes. His books were published in

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, among them are ''"City Culture of the Golden Horde"'' (

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, 1984), ''"Städte der Golden Horde an der unteren Wolga"'' (

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, 1984), ''"Le tresor de Saransk Les Monnaies de la Russie Moskovit 14 et 15 ieme Siecle"'' (Belgium, 1985), ''"Le tresor de Saransk Les Monnaies de la Principaute de Nijegorod. 14-15 Siecles"'' (Belgium, 1992). The work ''"Coins tell" ("World", 1986, republished again in 1990'') was even published in

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and Telugu Indian languages. German Fedorov-Davydov was a member of Academy of Natural Sciences of the Russian Federation, and corresponding member of the

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(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fedorov-Davydov, German Archaeologists from Moscow Russian numismatists 1931 births 2000 deaths 20th-century archaeologists Soviet archaeologists Russian Turkologists