POLYAKOV Andrey Vladimirovich

The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science "Institute of the History of Material Culture of the russian Academy of Sciences", headed by this person, is the organiser of illegal archaeological excavations in the occupied Crimea and is under Ukrainian sanctions.
It is known that between 2014 and 2023, the staff of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the russian Academy of Sciences, on behalf of this organisation, received more than 20 permits from the Ministry of Culture of the russian federation to conduct archaeological work in the temporarily occupied Crimea. At the same time, with the organisational and financial support of the IIMK RAS, these employees annually carry out a number of episodes of illegal archaeological work.
In particular, Polyakov delegated and provided the necessary support to Solovyov Serhiy Lvovich, who is the head of the "Ancient New Construction Archaeological Expedition of the IIMK RAS" to conduct archaeological excavations for the construction of the New Chersonesos complex on the territory of the UNESCO monument "Chersonesos Tavriya and its choir" in 2021-2023.