title: Boris Kuftin
text: # Boris Kuftin
  
  Boris Alekseevich Kuftin (2 February 1892 in Samara, Russia - 2 August 1953 in Lielupe (now a part of Jūrmala)) was a Soviet archaeologist and ethnographer. From 1933 to 1953, he worked in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. In the 1930s, he discovered the Trialeti culture; and in 1940, he coined the term Kura-Araxes. He participated in the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition in the 1940s-1950s.
  
  Kuftin became a member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in 1946.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  * Материальная культура Русской Мещеры. Часть 1: Женская одежда: рубаха, понева, сарафан [Material culture of Russian Meshchera. Part 1: Women's clothing: shirt, poniova, sarafan] (pdf). Proceedings of the State Museum of the Central Industrial Region, 3 (in Russian). Moscow: [Tayminsky pechatnik]. 1926. OCLC 490308640.
  