The history of Bohai(1) studies in Russia is more than 150 years old. But only from the 1950s to the 1970s did Soviet specialists pay attention to the main problems of Bohai history and archaeology and develop research in related areas. Russian scholars combined the use of written sources with the study of materials from archaeological sites, an approach which was evidently impossible for researchers in the Republic of Korea or Japan until the 2000s. At the same time, Bohai studies in the USSR were relatively free from the manifold political influences and pressures that heavily influenced research conducted in North Korea and China. In spite of this, Soviet Bohai studies remain practically unknown in the Western academic world, largely because most Soviet scholars do not publish in English. The goal of this survey is to trace the history of Bohai studies in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1970s and illustrate the specific characteristics of the Russian approach to this field.
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