Sergei KovalenkoSergei A. Kovalenko is Deputy Keeper of the Coins & Medals Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. He graduated from the Archaeology Department of the Moscow State University in 1984 and is in charge of Greek, Roman, Parthian and Byzantie coins stored in the Museum. Dr Kovalenko is ordinary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain). In 2000-2002 he was granted research fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). Dr Kovalenko has been specializing in the numismatics and archaeology of the Greek cities of the Northern Black Sea littoral and publishing extensively on the subject. These publications among other comprise books Historical and Archaeological Essays on the Greek and Late- Scythian Cultures in the North-Western Crimea (Moscow, 2005, in Russian, with Elena Popova) and Die sptklassische Munzprgung von Chersonesos Taurica (Berlin, 2008). He was the first Russian numismatist, who took part in the International Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project and prepared two volumes dealing with the ancient coins from the Northern Black Sea region (Leuven 2011, 2014). Recently his catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has come out (Moscow, 2015). Read More Read Less