THE ACTIVITIES OF RESEARCHERS AT THE BUKHARA MUSEUM IN ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

Аннотация

The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of researchers of the Bukhara Museum in the 1920s-1930s based on archival documents preserved in the museum's collection. During the period under study, the museum was undergoing a stage of formation, and its structure, as well as approaches to scientific and exhibition work, were in the process of formation. Special attention is paid to the role of the Bukhara Committee for the Protection of Cultural Monuments (Bukhkomstaris), which played a key role in the restoration and reorganization of the museum after a break in 1927. One of the first researchers was Polina Andreyevna Goncharova, an ethnographer who studied gold embroidery. She published thework "Bukhara's Gold Embroidery Art," in which she used museum materials and introduced the term "Darham" into scientificcirculation. Asignificant contribution to thedevelopment of museumwork was madebyP. E. Kornilov, who, having arrived in Bukhara in the early 1930s, organized a scientific council under the museum. It included A. S. Amitrov, P. A. Goncharova, and V. A. Shishkin. The latter actively participated in archaeological excavations, replenished the collections with archaeological and jewelry items, and supervised the exhibitions at the Sitorai Mohi-Hossa summer palace. His work on describing archives related to thehistoryof theBukhara Emiratewas ofparticular importance. Alexander Sergeyevich Amitrov, an ethnographer by education, actively corresponded with the Central Anti-Religious Museum, engaged in scientific and methodological activities. Mustafo Abdurahmanov, a researcher and deputy director of the museum, maintained connections with major museums and institutes of the USSR, enriching the collections of the Bukhara Museum withnew exhibits. Archival sources record the stability of the museum's staff in the 1930s, the participation of staff in scientific expeditions, the systematic acquisition of collections, the study and inventory of objects, as well as proposals for the transfer of the museum from the Kukeldash Madrasah and themuseification ofarchitectural monuments. Allthis testifies to thehigh professional activity of thecollective and itscontribution to thedevelopment of museum workin Uzbekistan. Keywords: Bukhara, exhibit, fund, museum, main inventory book, V.A. Shishkin, P.A. Goncharova, archaeology.