Dear friends,
I’m happy to present the fourth project of the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine within the “Digital Memory Storage” initiative: 💽 https://viazmitina-archive.iananu.digital/en
This time, the website is dedicated to a woman — 👠⛏️ the Ukrainian archaeologist, scholar of the East, and art historian Maria Viazmitina (1896–1994), specifically her work with the YuTAKE expedition at Nisa - one of the oldest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, which existed from the mid-3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE in what is now Turkmenistan. 🇹🇲
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the two groups of students who, as part of their internship at the Archive, helped organize field diaries, photographs, drawings, plans, notes, and some sets of letters - numbering pages and digitizing materials.
These were the third-year students of the History Faculty at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University: Tetiana Vaskevych, Sviatoslav Hamalia, Yeva Hrabovets, Sofiia Klymenko, Vladyslav Kuzmenko, Kateryna Pylyponchyk, and Mykhailo Khomenko.
Also, cultural studies students from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: Vladyslav Voznyi, Myroslava Hromova, Anastasiia Latypova, Denys Popov, and Diana Reskalenko.
Additional scanning of specific files was supported by archive staff Daryna Romanenko, Halyna Stanytsina, and Olha Kovalchuk.
Special thanks go to Daryna Romanenko for helping fill the site with content in incredibly short time! 🤝
I'm grateful to Valentyna Korpusova for her moral support and for her contributions dedicated to Maria Viazmitina. 🫶
This time, we created the website without a programmer, using our own skills and resources.
However, I remain deeply grateful to Volodymyr Mysak, who built the very first website-template for our projects and taught us how to work with it - and we send our deep respect and gratitude to him for his service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 🙏
As always, the photo session was thanks to Nika Havrysh.
We also thank Diego Thon and Iryna Glik for the website-landing page. ❤️🔥
All four projects are available at this link: https://archive.iananu.digital
On the site, you’ll also find my bilingual book:
“Maria Viazmitina: Archaeological Expedition to Parthia (With Selected Letters and the Scholar's article)” Kyiv: Institute of Archaeology, NAS of Ukraine, 2025. ✍️
https://viazmitina-archive.iananu.digital/mariya-vyazmitina-arheologichna-ekspedycziya-u-parfiyu/
This research was made possible through the generous support of fellowships from the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria) and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). 🚀
(from Oleksandra Buzko)
