Molodin Viacheslav is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and professor at Novosibirsk State University. He is also the Science Director of the Joint Laboratory for Multidisciplinary Studies of the Primitive Art of Eurasia (Novosibirsk State University), Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He is the winner of the Karpinski Prize (2000) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2004). He has published over 1,260 research papers.