Dega V. Deopik 90th Birthday Interview

Dega (Dmitriy) Vitalyevich Deopik (born in 1932) is a Soviet and Russian archaeologist, historian and orientalist. Born in Moscow, in the family of a Russian painter and graphics artists Vitaliy Nikolaevich Goriaev (1910-1982) and his wife Valentina Pavlovna Deopik (1907-1990) who herself was an outstanding Soviet painter and artist. Graduated from the MSU Faculty of History in 1956. In 1996 – obtained Doctor of Sciences degree. In 2000 was one of the founders of Faculty of History of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University. For many years was head of or participated in archaeological expeditions in the regions adjacent to Caucasus and in Black Sea Region. His areas of academic interest include: quantitative methods in historical studies, Biblical archaeology, archaeology of Southern Russia, traditional history of Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, China, problems of East Asia archaeology and ancient East Asia writing systems.

He created Russian school of quantitative and precise methods in sinology.