Rauf M. Munchaev*, Najaf Museibli**
*The Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia (raufmunchaev@mail.ru)
**The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Baku, the Republic of Azerbaijan (museibli@mail.ru)

Keywords: history of archaeology, scientific schools, Caucasian studies, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Scyths, early and medieval history of Azerbaijan.
The paper deals with the contribution of a renowned archaeologist A.A. Iessen (1896–1964) to the development of Russian and Azerbaijani archaeology and Caucasian studies.