Department of Social and Humanitarian Sciences

Education

• 1995-1999 Kostanay State University named after A. Baitursynov, specialty – History of Kazakhstan.
• 2003-2005 Institute of Archaeology A.Kh. Margulan, postgraduate degree in Archaeology.
• 2017-2019 Kemerovo State University, postgraduate degree in Archeology.
• 2019 Defended the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences at the Dissertation Council of Kemerovo State University. Diploma of Candidate of Sciences from 2.10.20.
• 2021 Passed the procedure of recognition of the equivalence of the diploma in the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and received a diploma of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the specialty – 6D020800 – Archeology and Ethnology. Order from 27.07.2021.

Subjects taught

• Foundations of Archaeology
• History of the ancient world
• Archeology of Kazakhstan
• Methods of archaeological research

Work experience

• 2000-2001 History teacher at school № 19 in Kostanay.
• 2001 to the present, Researcher at the Archaeological Laboratory of Kostanay State (Regional) University named after A.Baitursynov.
• 2003 to the present, Lecturer, senior lecturer, Acting Associate Professor of Kostanay State (Regional) University named after A. Baitursynov.

 Awards and prizes

• Scholarship recipient of the award in 2009–2010. «State scientific scholarships for talented young scientists».
• Diploma from the Department of Internal Policy of the Akimat of Kostanay region, as the best employer of youth labor groups of Kostanay region in the 2009 season.

Membership in professional organizations

• Member of the Scientific council of A. Kh. Margulan Archeology institute.

Activities in the service sector

• Member of the jury of city and regional competitions of students' scientific projects in historical disciplines.
• From 2005 to the present, annually actively participates in the performance of contractual archaeological works (state social order) initiated by the Akimat of Kostanay region.

Training manuals

• «History of Kostanay region. Part 1. Archeology» (electronic textbook). Kostanai, 2010.

Monographs

• Shevnina I.V. Pottery of the Neolithic tribes of Turgay // Materials and research on the archeology of Kazakhstan. – Astana, 2014. – vol. IV. – 235 p.
• Shevnina I.V., Logvin A.V. Bronze age burial ground Halvay III in North Kazakhstan. – // Materials and research on archeology of Kazakhstan.– Astana, 2015. – vol. VII. – 247 p.
• Logvin A.V., Shevnina I.V., Seitov A.M., Neteta A.V. Ritual geometric complexes («geoglyphs») of Turgai. – Kostanay, 2018. – 132 p.
• Shevnina I.V., Logvin A.V. Sintashta ornaments in the context of one burial ground (based on the materials of the Bestamak necropolis) // The image of a woman in the reflection of centuries: based on materials from Turgay and adjacent regions. Collective monograph edited by G. Bazarbayeva, G. Dzhumabekova. – Almaty: «Hikari», 2020. –160 p. / p. 58–70.

Publications 

• Shevnina I.V. Pottery of Makhandzhar culture // Bulletin of Archeology, Anthropology and Ethnography. – Tyumen, 2012. – №2 (17). – P. 21–28.
• Andrej Logvin, Irina Ševnina. Die nekropole von Bestamak // Unbekannes Kasachstan Archaologie im Herzen Asiens.– Bochum, 2013 – р.231–244.
• Logvin A.V., Shevnina I.V. Burials of the Developed Bronze age of the Halvai mound 3 // Prehistory studies. Pontic area.  – Mangalia, 2014: «Callasprint». – p. 219–242.
• Alicia Ventresca Miller, Emma Usmanova, Viktor Logvin, Saule Kalieva,Irina Shevnina, Andrei Logvin, Alina Kolbina, Aleksander Suslov, Karen Privat, Katherine Haas, Michael Rosenmeier. Subsistence and social change in central Eurasia: stable isotope analysis of populations spanning the Bronze Age transition // Journal of Archaeological Science 42 (2014) р.525–528
• Alicia Ventresca Miller, Emma Usmanova, Viktor Logvin, Saule Kalieva, Irina Shevnina, Andrei Logvin, Alina Kolbina, Aleksander Suslov. Dental health, diet, and social transformations in the Bronze Age: Comparative analysis of pastoral populations in northern Kazakhstan // Quaternary International 348 (2014) p. 130–146.
• Logvin, A. V., Shevnina, I. V., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., Seitov, A. M. Steppe Geoglyphs mark the ancient routes of human migration across Central Asia introduction to the research // 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Abstracts of the oral and poster presentations– Istambul. 2014. – p.492.
• G. Motuzaite Matuzeviciute A.V. Logvin, I. Shevnina, A.M.Seitov , J. Feng, L. Zhou С. OSL dates for the ancient geometric earthworks of Kazakhstan // Archaeological Research in Asia xxx (2015) xxx–xxx .journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ara
• Shevnina I.V. Experiments with the addition of wool to molding masses in the context of the study of Neolithic ceramics of Torgai // Modern approaches to the study of ancient ceramics in archaeology. International Symposium 29–31 Oct. – Moscow, 2015. – p. 155–163
• Peter Damgaard , ….Irina Shevnina еt al. 137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes // Nature. –  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586–018–0094–2;
• Barbara Muhlemann, Terry C. Jones, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Morten E. Allentoft, Irina Shevnina, Andrey Logvin еt al //  Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age tothe Medieval period . – Nature. – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586–018–0097–z
• A. R. Ventresca Miller, C. Winter–Schuh, E. R. Usmanova, A. Logvin, I.Shevnina & C. A. Makarewicz Pastoralist Mobility in Bronze Age Landscapes of Northern Kazakhstan: 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O Analyses of Human Dentition from Bestamak and Lisakovsk // Environmental Archaeology, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2017.1390031;
• Shevnina I.V. The ceramic complex of the Makhandzhar culture in the system of Neolithic antiquities of the Eurasian steppes // Bulletin of SUSU. The series «Social and Humanitarian Sciences». – 2018. – vol. 18 (No. 4). – p. 63–74;
• I.V. Shevnina, A.V. Logvin, I.P. Panyushkina New Sintashta materials of Turgay // Antiquities of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Siberia in the context of relations and interactions in the Eurasian cultural space. Vol. 2. St. Petersburg.: Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. p. 234–237.
• Antoine Fages, Andrey Logvin, Irina Shevnina, Eske Willerslev, Alan K. Outram, Pablo Librado, and Ludovic Orlando. Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series // Cell (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049 (Scopus, WOS)
• Shevnina I. V., Logvin A.V. Development of the Turgai trough by the Neolithic population // Stratum plus . – 2020.– №2. С.  57–69 (Scopus, WOS)
• Elina Ananyevskaya , Gaziz Akhatov, Valeriy Loman, …Andrei Logvin, , Irina Shevnina,  Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute.  The effect of animal herding practices on the diversity of human stable isotope values in North Central Asia //  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102615(Scopus, WOS).
• P.S. Ankusheva, O.V. Orfinskaya L.N., Koryakova, E.V. Kupriyanova, E.S. Kazizov, A.V. Logvin, I.K. Novikov, I.V.Shevnina Textile culture of the Late Bronze Age of the Ural–Kazakhstan region // Ural Historical Bulletin № 2 (67), 2020 doi: 10.30759/1728–9718–2020–2(67)–16–25(Scopus, WOS).
• Pablo Librado,…Andrey Logvin, Irina Shevnina,Victor Logvin, Saule Kalieva, Alan Outram &Ludovic Orlando The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes. Nature, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586–021–04018–9 (Scopus, WOS).
• Svetlana V Svyatko,  Paula J Reimer,  Rick J Schulting, Irina Shevnina, Andrei Logvin,  Dmitriy Voyakin,  Astrid Stobbe,  Ilya V Merts, Viсtor Varfolomeev,  Vasilii Soenov,  Natalia Tsydenova FRESHWATER RESERVOIR EFFECTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS OF SIBERIA AND THE EURASIAN STEPPE Radiocarbon, Vol 00, Nr 00, 2022, p 1–12 DOI:10.1017/RDC.2022.21.
• Logvin A.V., Shevnina I. V. The Neolithic of Turgay: climate, environment, paleoeconomics and man (based on the materials of the Makhandzhar culture)// Stratum plus. – 2021. – №2. – p.  15–29. Percentile 55: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2121529.
• Shevnina I.V., Logvin A.V. On the issue of the separation of the Belkaragai type of neolithic ceramics of Turgai // Bulletin of Archeology, Anthropology and Ethnography. – 2022. – №3. – p. 5 –16. Percentile 33: https://doi.org/10.20874/2071–0437–2022–58–3–1.
• Shevnina I.V. Ceramics of the Boborykino appearance of Turgay // The Volga River Region Archaeology. – 2022. – №3 (41). – p.135–150. Percentile 46. https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2022.3.41.135.150.
• Casanova, E., Knowles, T.D.J., Outram, A.K., ...LogvinА., Shevnina, I., Evershed, R.P.Direct 14C dating of equine products preserved in archaeological pottery vessels from Botai and Bestamak, Kazakhstan. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciencesthis. – 2022. – 14(9). Percentile 95.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520–022–01630–2.

National projects

• Member of the research group of the Republican program «Cultural Heritage» in 2005, 2006.
• Member of the research group of the Republican program «Sacred Geography» in 2017.
• Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan «Research of the archaeological heritage of Torgay in the context of interaction of the oldest peoples of Eurasia: transcultural relations, ethnosocial processes, paleoeconomics», member of the research group (2011–2013).
• Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan «Migration, ethnosocial processes, paleoeconomics of Torgai in the Paleometallic era and the Hunno–Sarmatian time in the light of new archaeological research», member of the research group (2015–2017).
• Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan «The civilization of the Nomads of Turgay: from the origins to the present (according to archeology and ethnoarchaeology)» member of the research group (2018–2020).
• Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan «New research on the Neolithic of Turgay: monuments and artifacts, chronology and transcultural relations, environment and paleoeconomics» member of the research group (2020–2022).

International projects

• Participation in an international project to develop the encyclopedic publication about Kazakhstan, the Great Atlas of Kazakhstan, published in Russia. Moscow, 2011.
• Participation in an international project to develop the encyclopedic publication about Kazakhstan «Unbekannes Kasachstan Archaologie im Herzen Asiens», published in Germany, Bochum, 2013.