Boris Shramko

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andriyovich and the family name is Shramko.

Boris Andriyovich Shramko (Ukrainian: Борис Андрійович Шрамкo; born on 17 January 1921, Gomel, Belarus — 8 July 2012, Kharkiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian historian and professor of history. He was based at the Kharkov State University (from which he graduated after the four-years service in the Red Army during the World War II).

Shramko is best known for excavating the Bilsk hillfort (between Poltava and Sumy) and suggesting it to be the Scythian capital Gelonus. The hillfort is strategically situated on the exact boundary between the steppe and forest-steppe. Shramko associated the earlier Bondarikha culture with the Cimmerians.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.