Svitlana Bilyayeva
{{short description|Archaeologist from North Ossetia}}{{Family name hatnote|Oleksandrivna|Bilyayeva|lang=Eastern Slavic}}{{Infobox person
| name = Svitlana Bilyayeva
| native_name = Світлана Олександрівна Біляєва
| birth_date = 28 March 1946
| birth_place = Dzaoudzhau, North Ossetia
| alma_mater = Voronezh State University
| occupation = Leading researcher at the Institute of Archeology, NAS of Ukraine
}}
Svitlana Oleksandrivna Bilyayeva ({{langx|uk|Світлана Олександрівна Біляєва}}, born 28 March 1946) is an archaeologist, who specialises in the ancient and medieval history of Ukraine, the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire.
Biography
= Career and education =
She studied history at Voronezh State University from 1964, graduating in 1969.{{Cite web|url=https://iananu.org.ua/struktura-ia/naukovi-viddili/viddil-arkheologiji-krymu-pivnichno-zakhidnogo-prichornomor-ya/spivrobitniki?id=22|title=Біляєва Світлана Олександрівна|website=iananu.org.ua|access-date=2020-04-21}} From 1969 to 1981 she worked as a researched at the Institute of Archaeology in Ukraine. In 1978 she was awarded a Masters, with a dissertation on the archaeology of "South Russian lands in the second half of the 13th-14th centuries". From 1981 to 1987 she was the Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology. From 1987 to 1996 she was a senior researcher at the institute. In 2012 she was awarded a PhD in Archaeology for her research on "Relations between East Slavic and Turkic worlds in XIII-XVIII centuries". Since 2013 she was worked as a lecturer at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.{{Cite web|url=http://publish-ukma.kiev.ua/ua/avtori/266-bilyaeva_svitlana.html|title=Світлана Біляєва. Видавничий дім Києво-Могилянська Академія|website=publish-ukma.kiev.ua|access-date=2020-04-21}} She is Professor of History at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.{{Cite web|url=https://skhodoznavstvo.org.ua/en/editorial_board|title=Редколегія|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
Bilyayeva is on several academic and heritage boards, including: the Ukrainian UNESCO Committee,{{Cite web|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/320085|title=Експедиція, якої не чекали|website=www.golos.com.ua|language=uk|access-date=2020-04-21}} the editorial board for "Сходознавство" ("The Oriental Studies") published by NAS Ukraine,
= Research =
Bilyayeva has worked extensively on the excavations at Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) and synthesised archaeological and historical data from there.{{Cite journal|last=Faroqhi|first=Suraiya|date=2018|title=Making Things to Serve Sultans, Viziers and Army Commanders (1450-1800)|journal=The Medieval History Journal|language=en|volume=21|issue=1|pages=69–99|doi=10.1177/0971945817750509|issn=0971-9458|doi-access=free|hdl=20.500.12154/349|hdl-access=free}}{{Cite book|title=The Frontiers of the Ottoman World|year=2009|publisher=British Academy|isbn=978-0-19-173479-3|language=en-US|doi=10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.001.0001|editor1-last=Peacock|editor1-first=A.C.S}} From 2006 to 2010 she was director of the Akkerman Fortress Project.{{Cite web|url=https://biaa.ac.uk/research/item/name/akkerman-fortress-project|title=Akkerman Fortress Project {{!}} Research at the BIAA {{!}} BIAA|website=biaa.ac.uk|access-date=2020-04-21}} She led excavations into a previously unknown 14th century Lithuanian city near the village of Tyaginka in the Beryslav region, which was sited upon the previous settlement of the Golden Horde.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nas.gov.ua:80/UA/Messages/Pages/View.aspx?MessageID=4239|title=На Херсонщині археологи виявили залишки кримськотатарського середньовічного міста (Відео)|website=www.nas.gov.ua|language=uk-UA|access-date=2020-04-21}} She has led research into the Tyagin fortress, which was the southernmost defensive structure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.{{Cite web|url=https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/taym-aut/doslidzhennya-tyagyni-i-vezhi-vitovta|title=Дослідження Тягині і вежі Вітовта - Науковці НАН України продовжують археологічні розкопки на Херсонщині|last=Антипенко|first=Іван|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} She has excavated and researched Ottoman monuments in Ukraine, including at Ochakiv (Özü).{{Cite book|title=Islamic art and architecture in the European periphery : Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural region|date=2008|publisher=Harrassowitz|others=Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara., Gierlichs, Joachim., Heuer, Brigitte.|isbn=978-3-447-05753-0|location=Wiesbaden|pages=39|oclc=318525989}}
File:Institute of Archaeology NASU.JPG|Institute of Archaeology NASU
File:УДПУ - старий корпус.JPG|Pavlo Tychyna Uman State University
File:Akkerman fortress.jpg|Akkerman Fortress
File:Akkerman fortress (8786872706).jpg|Akkerman Fortress
File:Ochakivs'kyi district, Mykolaivs'ka oblast, Ukraine - panoramio (8).jpg|Ochakivsky District Archaeology
File:Ochakov-Gate-Kherson-fortress-3.jpg|Ochakov, where Bilyayeva also led investigations