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122 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 Tatiana V. Kornienko (Voronezh State Pedagogical University, Voronezh, Russia) Fuad Safar and his contribution to the development of Mesopotamian archeology Summary: Fuad Safar is a remarkable scholar and well-known researcher of a number of outstanding Mesopotamian archaeological sites. They include Tell Hassuna that gave the name to the early agricultural Hassuna culture; Tell ‘Uqair, which material belongs to the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods; Eridu — ‘the first city’ of Sumerians; the Assyrian Palace in Nebi Unis and the Temple of Sibitti in Khorsabad; the Parthian-Arab city of Hatra; Wasit — an early Islamic center of the Umayyad period, and others. Fuad Safar is the author and co-author of research papers on the antiquities of Iraq; one of the founders of international archaeological journal “Sumer”; one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Department of Archeology at Baghdad University; a supervisor of restoration and rescue excavation projects to preserve the most important monuments in his home country. Nevertheless, for a number of reasons, information on the major milestones of the researcher’s life, details of his organizational, teaching and other activities are hard to find. On the basis of the data collected through contacts with Iraqi,American, and Russian colleagues of the scholar, this paper aims to somewhat fill the gap. Fuad Safar is one of the remarkable representatives of the Iraqi national school of archeology, alongside with Taha Bakir, TariqMadhlum, MohammedAli Mustafa, who have done a lot for its establishment and development. He accomplished his studies in 1934–1938 at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with the defense of a Master's thesis and received his MA in archeology and ancient Middle Eastern languages. Later, being well acquainted with the Western approaches and methods of field work, scholarly theories and principles of their construction, as well as with the Western educational system of professional archaeology, Fuad Safar sought to contribute to the formation of the Iraqi national strategy in the study and preservation of the historical past of his homeland. According to his colleagues, he believed that it was no good to blindly copy methods and exclusively use the results of studies of foreign missions, but to develop the Iraqi style of excavation, prepare as many young people in his country as possible to work with the richest heritage of ancient Mesopotamia. While successfully collaborating with overseas scholars such as Seton