«This is a waste of time for no one. I have extremely little of it». The unfinished dissertation of O. I. Dombrovsky (1914–1994)
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2026

This article examines one aspect of the scholarly work of the renowned Crimean archaeologist O.I. Dombrovsky (1914–1994). The scientist was the author of numerous discoveries and the de facto leader of Crimean archaeology in the 1960s-1980s. Despite the recognition of his scientific achievements by both colleagues and opponents, he remained formally employed throughout this period as a modest junior researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. The r