Vyacheslav Molodin

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin (; born 26 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian archaeologist specializing in prehistory of Siberia, professor, academician of the RAS.

Biography He was born on 26 September 1948 in the village of Orekhovo, Domachevsky District, Brest Oblast, BSSR

In 1971, the future scientist graduated from the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical Institute. He worked as a deputy director of a secondary school.

In 1996, the scientist was elected a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

In 1979, he discovered the archeological site Chichaburg in Zdvinsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast.

In 2015, a team led by Molodon discovered a complex consisting of two dwellings and several pits for harvesting of fish. Molodin's team of archeologists suggested that theses artifacts belong to an unknown culture (Baraba culture) of the Early Neolithic period (7th millennium BC), while other scientists argued that the archeological finds are the traces of Boborykin culture (5th millennium BC). Two independent examinations of animal bones from pit for harvesting of fish carried out at the Centre of Collective Usage (Novosibirsk) and the Engelhorn Archeometry Centre (Mannheim) confirmed the correctness of dating the complex to the 7th millennium BC.

Awards Molodin awarded the Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy" (1996), Order of Friendship (1999), Medal of Friendship (Mongolia, 2006), Order of Honour (2007), Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany first class (2012), Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (2014).

He was honored with the Alexander Karpinsky Award (2000) and State Prize of the Russian Federation (2005).