Vladislav Iosifovich Ravdonikas (Russian: Владислав Иосифович Равдоникас; 9 December 1894 – 28 November 1976) was a Soviet archeologist.
In Tikhvin, he was in charge of the Pedagogical College, initiated the museum status of the monastery, and edited the county newspaper.
He organized excavations of the most ancient settlement in the North-West of Russia - Staraya Ladoga, and wrote the first Soviet textbook on the history of primitive society.
[4] Ravdonikas was the author of a number of works on the history of the north-west of Russia in antiquity and the Middle Ages (settlement of the Baltic-Finnish tribes, the formation of statehood in the region) and the theoretical problems of primitive society.
He strove to move from a simple description and classification of things to the study of the socio-economic and socio-political problems of ancient societies.
He was also one of the founders of the leading serial publication "Soviet Archaeology" and played a decisive role in the formation of the Department of Archeology at Leningrad State University.