OLGA VYACHESLAVOVNA ORFINSKAYA-SENIOR RESEARCHER

Graduated from the Leningrad Forestry Academy named after M. S. Kirov (specialty-landscape architecture) and the post-graduate program of the Heritage Research Institute. In 2001, she defended her thesis "Textiles of the VIII-IX centuries from the collection of the Karachay-Cherkess Museum: technological features in the context of the culture of Early Medieval Eurasia" for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. Participated in projects: "Historical Necropolis (Moscow Kremlin Museums); "Bronze Age textiles", "Clothing of the Golden Horde", "X-century textiles from the Gnezdovo burial Ground" (GIM); "Coptic Textiles" (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts); actively cooperates with the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 1986, she has participated in various archaeological expeditions. Since 2010, he has been working in the expeditions of the Center for Egyptological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Fayum and Luxor. At the moment, he is engaged in the study of textiles discovered in the course of archaeological research of the CEI RAS.
Research interests: archaeological textiles and textile technologies.
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Main publications
* Orfinskaya O. V., Titova L. A., Chutkina S. S. Studies of pre-Mongolian embroidery from archaeological excavations of 1966-1974 in the city of Staraya Russa, Novgorod region / / Genesis: historical research. - 2017. - No. 5. - P. 127-143. DOI: 10.7256/2409-868X. 2017. 5. 20642. URL: http://e-notabene.ru/hr/article_20642.html
* Medvedeva P. S., Mochalov O. D., Orfinskaya O. V. The oldest evidence of weaving in the Volga region: based on materials from Potapov type monuments / Editor: Rabinovich R. A. Stratum plus. Archeology and cultural anthropology. 2017. No. 2. pp. 345-358.
* Orfinskaya O. V. Ribbon, braid, bandage: on the issue of textile terminology. // Egypt and neighboring countries. Moscow: CEI RAS, 2016, no. 3. pp. 1-25. [Electron. resource]. Access mode: http://cesras.ru/egypt-and-neighbouring-countries.
* Orfinskaya O. V., Usmanova E. R. Silk fabric of the V-III centuries BC from the Karatum burial ground / / Baypakov K. M., Voyakin D. A., Zakharov S. V. Karatum Burial ground. Necropolis of the Early Iron Age in Semirechye. - Almaty: LLP "Archaeological Expertise", 2016. - Appendix 5. - p. 653-654.
* Orfinskaya O. V. Reflections on the influence of the Golden Horde on the clothing of Russia //Executive Editor: Rabinovich R. A. Stratum plus. Archeology and cultural anthropology. No. 5. Invasion. The limits of the catastrophe of the XIII century-St. Petersburg, Kishinev, Odessa, Bucharest. 2016. pp. 251-269
• Orfinskaya, O., Kochkurkina, S. Archaeological textiles of the 10th to the 12th century from the Gaigovo barrow group (Russia, Leningrad oblast)//Archaeological Textiles Review No. 58. 2016. P. 21-33
* O. V. Orfinskaya. Research of archaeological textiles from the burials of the Pashkovsky burial ground No. 1. Appendix 6//Mastykova A.V., Kazansky M. M., Saprykina I. A. Research of materials of Pashkovsky burial ground No. 1 / Pashkovsky burial ground No. 1. Volume 2 / Editor A.V. Mastykova. - M.: IA RAS; St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, 2016. pp. 239-244
* Orfinskaya O. V. Unopened fur clothing// The journey of Ibn-Fadlan: The Volga Way from Bogdad to Bulgar: exhibition catalog. GE-M.: Ed. Dom Marjani, 2016. pp. 182-184..
* O. V. Orfinskaya. Results of the analysis of the organic remains of the saddle from the chamber burial of Ts-191 (Appendix II to the article by V. V. Novikov and N. V. Eniosova) / / Archaeological News, Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - 1992. Issue 21 / [Ed. by E. N. Nosov]. - St. PETERSBURG: DMITRY BULANIN, 2015. PP. 228-230
• Orfinskaya O., Belova G., Nauton M., Tolmacheva E. Textiles from burial 213 in Deir el-Banat.//Textiles, tools and techniques of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt and neighboring countries. Proceedings of the 8th conference of the research group ‘Textiles from the Nile Valley’, Antwerp 2013/Ed. by De Moor A., Fluck C., Linscheid P. Tielt: Lannoo, 2015. P.38-47.
Orfinskaya O. V. Classification of textiles for the monument of Deir al-Banat (Fayum) / / And the Earth is Joyous... Studies in Honour of Galina A. Belova = And the earth rejoices... Collection of articles in honor of G. A. Belova / Edited by S. V. Ivanov and E. G. Tolmacheva. - M.: CEI RAS, 2015. pp. 286-310.