Novosibirsk local museum and research of archaeological objects in the territory of the Novosibirsk region in 1920-1951

Purpose. Article is intended to describe the role and activities of the Novosibirsk local museum in archaeological investigation of Novosibirsk region. Also the purpose of article is disclosure of a role of certain staff of the museum in this process. To achieve this goal, the following objectives have been defined: collect and organize work and real material relating to archaeological research in the territory; introduce new material into scientific circulation of integrated research and local history of expeditions to study archaeological sites in present-day Novosibirsk region; describe the activities of individual scientists, scientific organizations and societies in the field of archaeological research of the Novosibirsk region, and determine their role in this process. The scientific novelty: in the work for the first time assembled and summarized all the material for the study of archaeological objects of modern Novosibirsk area. Introduced into scientific circulation until then little-known documents from the State archive of the Novosibirsk region and from the Department of Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia of the State Hermitage, as well as the unknown archaeological collections of such museums in the country, as the State Hermitage (Chertovo settlement gathered on instructions from S. Rudenko Museum Novonikolaevsk of in 1924), the Novosibirsk Museum (materials of Berdsk settlements, which was investigated E. Strelov, 1939, barrow near the village of Krotovo, which was investigated by B. Semenov, materials in area of Novosibirsk from local campaigns by regional Museum, the cave Izyly, the artefacts, which was collected on the coast of Ubinskoe Lake in the pre-war period). During the work the names of local historians and scientists who have been studying the territory, but their role in this process either was not awarded the attention of the scientific world, or has been reduced. Results. The author has used before unpublished archival sources and artifacts received from the State archive of the Novosibirsk region and Novosibirsk State Region Museum. The investigation found that the Museum staff regularly take separate expeditions to search for archaeological sites in parts of Novosibirsk region. Also periodically organized complex expedition for at exploring the history of Siberia with economic management of natural and cultural resources of the region. Research showed that since the basis Novosibirsk Museum could make huge work on research in the investigation of archaeological sites of the area between rivers Ob and Irtysh, as well as a large archaeological collection formed, known in this moment as «the old collection». Before Great Patriotic War was made a step towards the creation of archaeological maps of the region and by the early archaeology of the Novosibirsk region. Conclusion. «The old collection» is one of the most interesting and mysterious parts of the collection of archaeology, because we do not have any information about what the sites to occur these things, except in rare cases, who is the author of the excavations. These collections, after restoring the full information about them and introducing them to scientists in order to increase their accessibility to the educational process, should help scientists broaden existing knowledge about the historical past of Siberia.