- Yevgeni Pakhomov
Yevgeni Alexandrovich Pakhomov ( _ru. Евгений Александрович Пахомов) (1880 – 1965) was a
Russia n, Georgian andAzerbaijan i numismatist and archaeologist and a recognized authority in thenumismatics of theCaucasus .Born in
Stavropol , he graduated from theTiflis Realschule in 1896, theSt. Petersburg Archeological Institute in 1900, and the St. Petersburg Technological Institute in 1902. In 1920, he helped to organize the Museum of Azerbaijani History and was elected to the Academic Association of the University of Baku where he chaired the Department of Archeology and Numismatics from 1922 to 1930. He attained to the title of Professor at the Azerbaijani State University in 1945, and chaired the Department of Archaeology there from 1947 to 1953. Pakhomov was granted the title of the Meritorious Scholar of theAzerbaijan SSR in 1955 and elected as a corresponding member of the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences in 1962.Pakhomov authored some of the most influential works on the numismatics of Georgia and
Azerbaijan . His unique numismatic collections were bequeathed to the museums of Tbilisi, Baku, andLeningrad . Some coins were obtained by theArmenia n museum, while other were acquired by private collectors.Pakhomov is the author of Coins of Georgia published in 1970.
References
*ru icon [http://rucoin.ru/dictionary/15/ Dictionary] . The Russian Coin website. Accessed on
December 10 ,2007 .
*ge icon [http://www.coins.ge Georgian Numismatics] Georgian Numismatics
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