Vasily Dimitrievich Dimitriev (January 11, 1924, Novoye Syurbeevo, Tsivilsky District, Chuvash Autonomous Okrug, USSR - January 8, 2013, Cheboksary, Russia) - Soviet and Russian archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor.

Vasily Dimitriev
Василий Димитриевич Димитриев
Born11th January, 1924
Novoye Syurbeevo v., Tsivilsky district, Chuvash Autonomous Okrug, USSR
Died8th January, 2013 (aged 88)
Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation
NationalityChuvash Republic, Russian Federation
EducationMoscow State University
Alma materChuvash State Pedagogical Institute,
Scientific career
Fieldsarchaeology, history
InstitutionsChuvash State University
Doctoral advisor10
Doctoral students40

Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1980). Member of the Archaeographic Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1968).

Biography and scientific activity

edit

Born into a peasant family. After graduating from Churachik secondary school, he entered the history and philology department of the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute.[1].

Participant of the Great Patriotic War: From 1942 - cadet of the artillery school, junior lieutenant, lieutenant-commander of a platoon in fighter-anti-tank brigades on the 2nd Ukrainian, 1st Baltic, 3rd Belorussian fronts.[2].


In 1948, he graduated with honors from the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute.

From 1946, he worked as a senior laboratory assistant in the history department of the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute, and from 1948 as a junior research fellow at the Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (ChNII YALI). In 1955, he completed postgraduate studies at the Department of History of the USSR during the feudal period at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

For 20 years, Dimitriev was the director of the Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (today the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities), and was also a professor at the ChSU named after I.N. Ulyanov.

As noted by the Chuvash Encyclopedia, Vasily Dimitriev was one of the leading experts on the medieval history of the Volga region and the Volga peoples.

His doctoral dissertation, defended in 1968, was entitled "History of Chuvashia in the Feudal Era."

Dimitriev addressed such issues as the ethnogenesis of the Chuvash, the history of Volga Bulgaria, the position of the Bulgaro-Chuvash in the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate, and the colonial policy of the Russian state towards the Chuvash.

Scientific publications

edit

Vasily Dimitriev is the author of about 300 scientific works, including 19 monographs ("History of Chuvashia in the 18th Century", "Chuvash Historical Legends", "Chuvash: Ethnic History and Traditional Culture" and others). He introduced many historical sources into scientific circulation, published works on such Chuvash figures as Nikita Bichurin, Spiridon Mikhailov, Nikolai Nikolsky.

Participated in the preparation of more than 10 doctors and 40 candidates of historical sciences.

Vasily Dimitriev is the author of about 300 scientific works, including 19 monographs ("History of Chuvashia in the 18th Century", "Chuvash Historical Legends", "Chuvash: Ethnic History and Traditional Culture" and others). He introduced many historical sources into scientific circulation, published works on such Chuvash figures as Nikita Bichurin, Spiridon Mikhailov, Nikolai Nikolsky. Participated in the preparation of more than 10 doctors and 40 candidates of historical sciences.

Scientific affairs

edit
  • Димитриев В. Д. История Чувашии XVIII века (до крестьянской войны 1773-1775 годов). — Чебоксары: Чуваш. гос. изд-во, 1959. — 532 с.
  • Димитриев В. Д. Чебоксары: Очерки истории города конца 13–17 вв. — Чебоксары: Чувашское книжное издательство, 2003. — 184 с.
  • Димитриев В. Д. Чувашские материнские селения Свияжского, Кокшайского, Чебоксарского, Козьмодемьянского, Цивильского, Ядринского, Курмышского и Симбирского уездов первой половины XVIII века: Справочник. — Чебоксары: Чувашское книжное издательство, 2006.
  • Димитриев В. Д., Селиванова С. А. Чебоксары: Очерки истории города XVIII века. — Чебоксары: Чуваш. кн. изд-во, 2011. — 446 с. (в пер.)
  • Димитриев В. Д. Чувашский народ в составе Казанского ханства: Предыстория и история / Сост. Д. В. Басманцев; Чувашский государственный институт гуманитарных наук. — Чебоксары: Чуваш. кн. изд-во, 2014. — 192 с. — 1000 экз. — ISBN 978-5-7670-2154-3. (в пер.)

Articles

edit
  • Димитриев В. Д. Откуда мы родом // газета «Чăваш Ен», 1991.
  • Димитриев В. Д. Об обосновании Н. И. Ашмариным теории болгаро-чувашской языковой и этнической преемственности // Известия Национальной академии наук и искусств Чувашской Республики. — 1996. — № 1. — С. 183—200.

Awards and titles

edit

Awards of the USSR

edit

Awards of the Russian Federation

edit

Public awards

edit
  • Laureate of the Republican Journalism Prize named after S. V. Elger (2002)
  • Metropolitan Makariy Medal (Makarievskaya Prize)[5].
  • Laureate of the Republican Journalism Prize named after Nikolai Nikolsky

Municipal awards

edit
  • Honorary citizen of Cheboksary (2012)
  • Honorary citizen of Tsivilsky district (2004)
  • Honorary citizen of the city of Tsivilsk (1989)[6]

Literature

edit
  • Служение истории : сб. науч. ст / Чуваш. гос. ун-т им. И. Н. Ульянова. — Чебоксары : Изд-во ЧГУ. — Вып. 1. — 2005. — 311 с. ; Вып. 2 :. — 2008. — 315 с.
  • Фроянов И. Я., Смирнов Ю. П. Историк, исследователь, учёный В. Д. Димитриев. — Чебоксары : Изд-во Чуваш. гос. ун-та, 1994. — 68 с.
  • Багадерова, В. «Ҫутӑ сӑнарӗ асӑмӑртах…» // Хыпар. — 2013. — 13 нарӑс. — С. 4.
  • Тенюшев, И. Çĕнĕ кăларăм пуян та капăр // Тăван Атăл. — 2005. — № 2. — С. 65-67.
  • Халӑхран тухнӑ ӑсчах // Хыпар. — 2013. — 28 нарӑс. — Прил.: с. 1-16. — («Хыпар» кӗнеки ; № 1).
  • Айплатов Г. Н. Археографическая деятельность профессора В. Д. Димитриева // Марийский археогр. вестн. — 2009. — № 9. — С. 203—207.
  • Бойко, И. И., Каштанов С. М. Димитриев Василий Димитриевич : (к 85-летию со дня рождения) // Чуваш. гуманит. вестн. : археология, искусствоведение, история, правоведение, социол., филология, экономика, этнология. — 2009. — № 4. — С. 194—201.
  • Димитриев Василий Димитриевич : [некролог] // Советская Чувашия. — 2013. — 10 янв. — С. 15 : портр.
  • Иванова, В. Виват, Чебоксары, виват! : страницы 60-летней масштабной «Чебоксариады» историка В. Димитриева / В. Иванова; фот. М. Дмитриева // Совет. Чувашия. — 2012. — 21 марта. — С. 2.
  • Каховский В. Ф., Смирнов Ю. П. Академик В. Д. Димитриев — историк, организатор науки и педагог // Исследователи чувашской культуры и истории. — Уфа, 1998. — С. 5-20.
  • Смирнов, А. Вся жизнь — служение науке // Чувашия сегодня. — 2004. — 30 янв. — С. 4.
  • Смирнов, Ю. П. Видный историк-медиевист // Халăх шкулĕ = Нар. шк. — 2000. — № 4. — С. 133—137.
  • Смирнов, Ю. П. Выдающаяся фигура среди историков Среднего Поволжья // Учёные. — Чебоксары, 2006. — С. 130—144. — (Б-ка Президента Чуваш. Респ. ; т. 4).
  • Тенюшев, И. Я. Мина упала в нескольких метрах… // Ульяновец. — 2005. — 5 мая. — С. 4-5.

References

edit
edit