Svitlana Bilyayeva

She studied history at Voronezh State University from 1964, graduating in 1969.[2] From 1969 to 1981 she worked as a researched at the Institute of Archaeology in Ukraine.[2] In 1978 she was awarded a Masters, with a dissertation on the archaeology of "South Russian lands in the second half of the 13th-14th centuries".[2] From 1981 to 1987 she was the Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology.[2] From 1987 to 1996 she was a senior researcher at the institute.[2] In 2012 she was awarded a PhD in Archaeology for her research on "Relations between East Slavic and Turkic worlds in XIII-XVIII centuries".[2] Since 2013 she was worked as a lecturer at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[3] She is Professor of History at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.[4]

Bilyayeva is on several academic and heritage boards, including: the Ukrainian UNESCO Committee,[5] the editorial board for "Сходознавство" ("The Oriental Studies") published by NAS Ukraine,[4]

Bilyayeva has worked extensively on the excavations at Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) and synthesised archaeological and historical data from there.[6][7] From 2006 to 2010 she was director of the Akkerman Fortress Project.[8] She led excavations into a previously unknown 14th century Lithuanian city near the village of Tyaginka in the Beryslav region, which was sited upon the previous settlement of the Golden Horde.[9] She has led research into the Tyagin fortress, which was the southernmost defensive structure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[10] She has excavated and researched Ottoman monuments in the Ukraine, including at Ochakiv (Özü).[11]

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  Institute of Archaeology NASU
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  Pavlo Tychyna Uman State University
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  Akkerman Fortress
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  Akkerman Fortress
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  Ochakivsky District Archaeology
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  Ochakov, where Bilyayeva also led investigations