Mikhail Yevgenyevich Masson (Russian: Михаил Евгеньевич Массон; 3 December 1897 in Saint Petersburg – 2 October 1986) was a Soviet archaeologist.
[1][3][5] During this time, he attended courses at the Turkestan Eastern Institute and conducted archaeological research during the restoration of historical monuments in Central Asia.
[1][2] He combined this work with his role as the head of the archaeological sector of the Uzbek Committee for Museum Affairs and the Preservation of Monuments of Antiquity and Art.
[6][1] Starting in 1936, Mikhail Evgenyevich Masson served as the head of the Department of Archaeology at the Central Asian State University in Tashkent.
[8][1] Parents: father - Evgeny Ludwigovich Masson, a descendant of a Russified French aristocrat who moved to Russia during the Jacobin terror, a topographer; mother - Antonina Nikolaevna Shpakovskaya.
His second wife, Galina Anatolyevna Pugachenkova, was a renowned Soviet and archaeologist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, and researcher of Turkestan.
Starting in 1946, Masson served as the head of the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Complex Expedition, which conducted work in the Turkmen SSR.