SOVIET-AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IN THE CRIMEA IN 1933
The article traces the history of the first Soviet-American archaeological expedition to excavate the cave city of Eski-Kermen in the Crimea, organized in July-September 1933 by the State Academy for the History of Material Culture, the State Historical Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. The American side was represented by anthropologist Eugene A. Golomshtok. Golomshtok's participation in the search for Gothic traces in the Crimea was not connected with his scientific interests, but was important for the development of cooperation and exchange between the American museum and the museums of the USSR. Despite the relative success of the expedition, relations between thetwo sides in 1934 were interrupted. The reasons for this can be found in the changes in the political climate in the USSR and the growing wave of repression, some victims of those were charged, inter alia, with collaboration with the “white emigrant” and “spy” Golomshtok