About renaming the institute for the history of material culture into the Institute of archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1959

The name of the first academic archaeological institution - the Russian Academy for the History of Material Culture - that was established in 1919 was in line with the spirit of the new period and official government agenda. However, the use of the term “history of material culture” instead of “archaeology” in reality lost its original meaning as early as the second half of the 1930s. At the same time the process of renaming the Institute for the History of Material Culture into the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences did not begin until the denouncement of N. Ya. Marr's Japhetic theory. The final change of the name occurred on September 4, 1959, by the resolution released by the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.