Events from the “pacific biography” (for the 90th birthday of R.S. Vasilievsky)

In 2023, the 90th birthday of Ruslan Vasilievsky (1933-2011), Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences and one of the most prominent representatives of Russian Pacific archaeology, is celebrated. During his time at IAET SB RAS, Ruslan Vasilievsky worked his way up from graduate student to the Head of the Department of the Neolithic and Deputy Director of Research. He is the author of over two hundred articles, including almost forty publications in international periodicals in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. In different periods of his rich scholarly career, R. S. Vasilievsky participated in studies of archaeological sites in the Priokhotye, Baikal and Transbaikal regions, Far East, Central Asia, and Cuba, but the "Pacific” always remained a priority for him. In archeology of this region, Ruslan Vasilievsky left his most outstanding scholarly legacy evolution of the sea hunter societies of the Northern Pacific, models of maritime adaptation, and specific aspects of cultures of the Stone Age in Primorye, Sakhalin, and Japanese archipelago. All studies of Ruslan. Vasilievsky have a special, large-scale, truly Pacific approach in analyzing and interpreting the heritage of ancient cultures, using a variety of historical and ethnographic information, and addressing a wide range of parallels in archaeology of Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Northern and Southern America. This article reviews the most important and significant "events” from the life of Ruslan Vasilievsky, which ultimately formed his scholarly "Pacific biography. ” His role in the development of international cooperation between Siberian archaeologists and colleagues from the USA, Canada, and Japan is particularly noted.