Sergey Nikolaevich Zamyatnin – Graduate Student of Gaimk (According To Vokm Archive Materials)

The paper features materials deposited in the S.N. Zamyatnin’s archive of the Voronezh Regional Museum of Local Lore (a total of 145 items with a chronological coverage of 1918-1960). The main attention is drawn to the analysis of documents reflecting the events of the first years of Sergei Nikolaevich’s residence in Leningrad. At this time (1926–1929), the young scientist studied at the postgraduate course of the State Academy for the History of Material Culture (GAIMK). The importance of documents is determined by their informativeness, both for further detailing S. N. Zamyatnin’s scientific biography and the reconstruction of a holistic view of this scientist, and within the framework of the analysis of the institution of Soviet postgraduate studies with their foundations laid in the second half of the 1920s. It is the first publication of the autobiography of S. N. Zamyatnin, written on November 27, 1925, and reviews of the scientist as a candidate for graduate students by famous archaeologists P. P. Efimenko (dated November 27, 1925) and A. A. Miller (dated December 3, 1925) - his mentors, specialists of the Russian Academy for the History of Material Culture (RAIMK).