[1] Derevyanko was one of the youngest Doctors of Historical Sciences in the Soviet Union.

He got a degree in 1971, being 28 years old, for his doctoral thesis "Amur River Region in Antiquity (B. C.)".

Derevyanko has developed the new spatiotemporal version of initial ways of Asia's settlement, created a periodization, chronology and dynamics of Paleolith in the region.

He is the head of program, which is dedicated to the compound research of paleolithic spelaean monuments in South Siberia and Central Asia.

Anatoly Derevyanko was the chancellor of Novosibirsk State University for two years (1980–1982).