Boris Alekseevich Kuftin (2 February 1892 in Samara, Russia - 2 August 1953 in Lielupe (now a part of Jūrmala)) was a Soviet archaeologist and ethnographer.
In the 1930s, he discovered the Trialeti culture;[1] and in 1940, he coined the term Kura-Araxes.
[2] He participated in the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition in the 1940s-1950s.
[3] Kuftin became a member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in 1946.
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