On August 5, 2015, the leading expert on the history and culture of the Hellenistic East and Parthia, archaeologist and antiquarian, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Gennady Koshelenko left us. G. A. Koshelenko was born on January 21, 1935 in Omsk 1. He graduated from the 2nd Railway Secondary School with a silver medal in 1952 and entered the History Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. After completing his first year, G. A. Koshelenko completed an archaeological internship in the ancient city of Pantikapey (Kerch) under the guidance of the outstanding archaeologist V. D. Blavatsky. It was there that G. A. Koshelenko's main research interests were defined - archeology and history of the ancient world. V. D. Blavatsky advised G. A. Koshelenko to study the Hellenistic East and Parthia. These directions became the main ones in the work of Gennady Andreevich. After graduating from Moscow State University in 1957, N. Koshelenko worked for a year as a head of the academic department, a teacher of history and geography at a school in the village of Nizhniye Pronge in the Khabarovsk Territory, and then for another year served as a librarian in the State Library of the USSR named after V. I. Lenin. 1 For a detailed biography and bibliography of G. A. Koshelenko, see: Gennady A. Koshelenko / Comp. by V. A. Gaibov, N. B. Polyakova. V. A. Gaibov, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 2015 (Materials for the biobibliography of scientists; Istoriya, issue 38), 126 p. page 199 In 1960-1963, G. A. Koshelenko studied at the postgraduate course of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1960, at the request of V. D. Blavatsky, he took part in the work of the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Complex Expedition (UTAKE), which was headed by one of the patriarchs of Cen ... Read more