NATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHERS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS. 20TH CENTURY

=== '''{{birth-date|25 May 1908}}, Khristianovskoye village, Terek Region — {{death-date|31 March 1989}}, Moscow''' ===

'''''Biography, education, career:''''' 

On 28 June Valentin Gardanov defended his Candidate Dissertation at the Institute of Ethnography. It was titled ''Social Structure of the Peoples of Adygea in the 18th – 1st Half of the 19th Centuries''. In 1961‑1989 he was Head of the Department of the Caucasus of Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

'''''Areas of expertise:'''''

[[Category:Ethnic museology]] [[:Category:Ethnic museology|Ethnic museology]]; [[Category:History and ethnography of the peoples of the North and South Caucasus]] [[:Category:History and ethnography of the peoples of the North and South Caucasus|History and ethnography of the peoples of the North and South Caucasus]]; history and social structure of the peoples of North Caucasus

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