Hening, Vladimir

Professor Vladimir Hening, son of Friedrich (Fyodor) Hening, was born 10 May 1924 in Podsosnovo (Siberia) and died in Kiev, Ukraine, on 30 October 1993.

He was educated at the University of Perm. His doctoral dissertation was on the "Ethnic History of the Southern Kama Region in the 1st Millennium AD." He taught in the archeology departments of Ural State University in Sverdlovsk and the Institute of Archeology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev. He is considered the founder of the Sverdlovsk School of Archeology.

Professor Hening's Volga German ancestors came from the colony of Katharinenstadt.