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Title: Vladimir Iakovlevich Tolmachev papers
Date (inclusive): 1909-1947
Collection Number: 2001C45
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
2 microfilm reels
(0.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the archeology of China and to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Tolmachev, Vladimir I͡Akovlevich, -1947
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001.
[Identification of item], Vladimir Iakovlevich Tolmachev Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| ? | Born, Russia |
| 1918 | Lecturer, Narodnyi Universitet, Moscow, Russia |
| 1928 | Author, Zernovye produkty kul'turnykh polevykh rastenii Severnoi Man'chzhurii |
| 1947 | Died, China |
V. Ia. Tolmachev was born in Shadrinskii uezd, Permskaia guberniia, on 21 November 1876 (O.S.). Upon graduation from the Ekaterinburg
gimnaziia, he entered St. Petersburg University, where he studied in the physics and mathematics department, and simultaneously
audited courses at the Academy of Arts. But his primary interest was archeology, and in 1900 he transferred to the Archeological
Institute. Every summer was spent on expedition, and upon graduation from the Institute he went to work digging up artifacts
in the Ural-Volga region. Many of the results of his scientific work appeared in Drevnosti Urala, which commenced publication
in 1913.
The Civil War brought him to Chita, where he remained until 1922, continuing archeological research and teaching. His career
in Harbin was associated with archeological and paleontological finds of great significance all across Manchuria. He was a
curator of the Museum of the Society for the Study of Manchuria (Obshchestvo issledovaniia Man'chzhurskogo kraia). He also
wrote many articles on the commodities markets for Manchurian goods, such as soy beans. Most of the writings in his collection
deal with Manchurian and Chinese archeology, culture, and agriculture. He left Harbin for Shanghai in the mid-1930s. Tolmachev
apparently died in 1947.
V. Ia. Tolmachev was a professor of archaeology and zoology in interwar China (Manchuria). He founded and organized the commercial/industrial
and archeological sections of the Harbin state museum and the Railway Museum there, of which he was curator for 10 years.
The collection contains his speeches and writings on a variety of themes associated with archeology, ancient history, biology,
zoology and related studies. Many of the underlined titles listed in SPEECHES AND WRITINGS are in fact limited edition off-prints
of his articles in "Vestnik Man'chzhurii." There is also a small amount of correspondence and notes on Russian philately (SUBJECT
FILE/Stamp collecting).
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- China
Archaeology -- China