Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2015 8) 593-599 ~ ~ ~ УДК 069.5|638| A.P. Ermolaev and the First Description of Archaeological Collection of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Anna A. Malitskaya, Nikolai P. Makarov and Alexanrer S. Vdovin* Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafev 89 Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia Received 23.10.2014, received in revised form 15.01.2015, accepted 12.02.2015 The article represents biography of the Krasnoyarsk city museum conservator assistant A.P. Ermolaev. <...> A brief review of his scientifi c activity as an archaeologist is given. <...> On the basis of little known archival data, information on details of fi nding, information collection and publication of the unique Ishimka treasure of the developed Iron Age – Early Middle Ages are published. <...> Keywords: Museology, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum, A.P. Ermolaev, archaeology, Iron Age, Middle Ages, the Ishimka treasure. <...> The Krasnoyarsk Museum was founded in 1889, and from the beginning of its foundation, its archaeological collection started to form. <...> Among undeservedly forgotten researchers of archaeology and ethnography of the Yenisei region there is also the name of A.P. Ermolaev (1886-1919) [Batashev et al., 2010]. <...> When he was 5 years old, a parochial school was opened in his village and in 1892 it moved to the former house of his family, and his parents settled in it as watchmen. <...> In the same year, Alexander Petrovich went to this school right to the second stage. <...> Life at the school gave him the opportunity to get acquainted with a small school library. <...> After leaving the parochial school, he entered the Tulunuvskaya forest school. <...> Alexander Petrovich graduated from the forest school in 1904 with a Anna A. Malitskaya, Nikolai P. Makarov… A.P. Ermolaev and the First Description of Archaeological Collection… certifi cate of merit and monetary reward. <...> Then, with the assistance of N. Petrov, the head of the same school, he was granted a temporary vacancy in the offi ce of Tulunovsky forestry as a foreman on timber harvesting at the Siberian forest road, where he served from 15 September to 21 November 1904. <...> After two months of service in Tulunovsky forestry Alexander Petrovich moved to Ilansky settlement and in the absence <...>