DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL ARCHEOLOGY IN THE SECOND HALF OF XIX - THE FIRST QUARTER OF XX CENTURY (ON MATERIALS OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS)

The article is devoted to scientific work of central academic institutions, provincial scientific societies and institutions of the North Caucasus in the second half of XIX - the first quarter of the XX century. The article analyzes the dynamics of accumulation of source base, revealed the organization and functioning of the archaeological research, methods of accumulation and analysis of the material, as well as the development and the results of theoretical research in the North Caucasus during this chronological period. The influence of socio-cultural and regional conditions in the organizational and substantive scope of archaeological research. First of all, it is the effect of the central academic institutions, manifested in the implementation of archaeological research in the North Caucasus region. Scientiic Society of the North Caucasus was the social and scientific center of local intelligentsia, so their educational activities formed the public opinion about the need to preserve the monuments.