GERO VON MERHART AND HANS FINDEISEN: THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC TIES OF THE KRASNOYARSK REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM
From the very beginning the Krasnoyarsk regional history museum maintained close ties with the international academic community. The peak of the museum's international cooperation fell on the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> - first third of the 20<sup>th</sup> centuries. A good example of this was the stay in Krasnoyarsk of two well-known Austrian and German researchers of the 1920-s: the archeologist Gero Von Merhart and the ethnographer Hans Findeisen. Merhart got to Siberia as a prisoner of war during World War I; in 1919-1921, he worked in the Department of Archeology of the Yenisei region; after his return to his home country in 1921, he published a number of articles on antiquities of Siberia. Findeisen visited Krasnoyarsk in 1927 and 1928 during a Kets Research Expedition; he continued his research of the material and spiritual culture of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East in later years. Unlike Merhart, whose contacts with the museum stopped already in the late 1920-s, Findeisen attempted to contact the museum in the post war years. The article describes life and work of these two researchers in Siberia, studies their academic and literary heritage, as well as their contribution to the Russian academic research.