Anatoly Derevyanko

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian archaeologist}}

{{expand Russian|topic=bio|otherarticle=Деревянко, Анатолий Пантелеевич|date=March 2015}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Anatoly Derevyanko

| native_name = Анатолий Деревянко

| native_name_lang = ru

| image = Anatoly Derevyanko.jpg

| caption = Derevyanko in 2013

| birth_name = Anatoly Panteleyevich Derevyanko

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1943|1|9}}

| birth_place = Kozmodemyanovka, Tambovsky District, Amur Oblast, RSFSR

| fields = History, archaeology

| alma_mater = Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University

}}

Anatoly Panteleyevich Derevyanko ({{langx|ru|Анатолий Пантелеевич Деревянко}}; born 9 January 1943) is a Soviet and Russian archaeologist who specializes in the Stone Age of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Anatoly was born in the workman's family. In 1963 he graduated from Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University (BSPU).{{Cite web |url=http://gf.nsu.ru/www/?page_id=3536 |title=Anatoly Derevyanko's Biography in Russian |access-date=2015-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226224738/http://gf.nsu.ru/www/?page_id=3536 |archive-date=2014-02-26 |url-status=dead }} Derevyanko was one of the youngest Doctors of Historical Sciences in the Soviet Union. He got a degree in 1971, being 28 years old, for his doctoral thesis "Amur River Region in Antiquity (B. C.)".

Anatoly Derevyanko is the prize-winner of several awards, such as State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001, 2012),{{Cite web |url=http://www.nsu.ru/exp/p51b1aa2caf12b9962114b371 |title=Derevyanko has become a prize-winner of The Russian State Prize (in Russian) |access-date=2015-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402163039/http://www.nsu.ru/exp/p51b1aa2caf12b9962114b371 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }} The Demidov Prize (2004), The Lomonosov Gold Medal (2015).

Derevyanko has developed the new spatiotemporal version of initial ways of Asia's settlement, created a periodization, chronology and dynamics of Paleolith in the region. He is the head of program, which is dedicated to the compound research of Paleolithic spelaean monuments in South Siberia and Central Asia.

Anatoly Derevyanko was the chancellor of Novosibirsk State University for two years (1980–1982).[http://bsk.nios.ru/content/derevyanko-anatoliy-panteleevich About A. Derevyanko in Russian]