Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Head of Research Laboratory of Paleoanthropological Study of Kazakhstan Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh Margulan of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He was born on May 22, 1980 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In 2002, he graduated from Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute with a specialty of pilot engineer; in 2006 - Faculty of History of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University with a speciality of history teacher. 2006-2010 - postgraduate student of the Department of Physical Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic "Paleoanthropology of the population of the Southern Ural of the Bronze Era" at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
From 2006 to present (research student - senior researcher of the Center of Anthropoecology of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEA RAS, Moscow).
Since 2015, he is a Head of Research Laboratory of Paleoanthropological Study of Kazakhstan Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Margulan of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan (Almaty, Kazakhstan).
From 2006 to 2019 - head of archaeological research in the territory of Orenburg, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Tambov, and Tyumen regions of the Russian Federation.
Head (from the Russian side) of the South Aral region Karakalpak-Russian Complex Archaeological Expedition (SAKRCAE) on the territory of Karakalpakstan of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Paleoanthropology and archaeology of Central Asia, craniology, odontology, osteology, bioarchaeology, racial and ethnogenesis of the population of the Volga-Ural region and Central Asia.
Author of more than 100 publications (including monographs):
Main publications:
Morgunova N.L. Labazovskij kurgannyj mogil'nik srubnoj kul'tury / N.L. Morgunova , A.A. Gol'eva, A.A. Evgen'ev, E.P. Kitov, L.V. Kupcova, N.P. Salugina, O.S. Khokhlova, A.A. Khokhlov; Orenburgskij gos. Ped. Un-t; Departament po kul'ture i iskusstvu Orenburgskoj oblasti; Orenburgskij oblastnoj istoriko-kraevedcheskij muzej. – Orenburg. - Orenburg: Izd-vo OGPU, 2009. – 98 p.
Kitov E.P., Mamedov A.M. Kochevoe naselenie Zapadnogo Kazahstana v rannem zheleznom veke. – Astana: Izdatel'skaya gruppa FIA im. A.H. Margulana v g. Astana, 2014. - 352 p.
Bejsenov A.Z., Ismagulova A.O., Kitov E.P., Kitova A.O. Naselenie Central'nogo Kazahstana v I tysyacheletii do n.e. - Almaty: Institut arheologii im. A.H. Margulana, 2015, - 188 p.
Kitov E.P., Tur S.S., Ivanov S.S. Paleoantropologiya sakskih kul'tur Prityanshan'ya (VIII – 1-aya polovina II v. do n.e.». - Almaty: «Hikari», 2019. - 300 p.
Publications in international journals
Peter de Barros Damgaard и др. (в соавт. Kitov E.P.). Population genomic history of the Eurasian steppe // Nature. - 2018. - Vol. 557. - № 7705. - p.369-374 (WoS and Scopus).
Terry C. Jones и др. (co-authored by Kitov E.P.). Bronze and Iron Age human hepatitis B viruses // Nature. - 2018. - Vol. 557. - № 7705. - p. 418-423 (WoS and Scopus).
Vagheesh N. et al. (co-authored Kitov E.P.). The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia // Science. vol. 365 no. 6457. - 2019. (WoS and Scopus).
ZHambulatov K.A., YAgodin V.N., Kitov E.P., Musaeva R.S., YAgodin V.V. Kompleks vooruzheniya pozdnesarmatskogo vremeni territorii Zapadnogo Kazahstana i Ustyurta // Stratum plus. - №4. - 2019. - p. 265-283 (WoS and Scopus).
Kitov E.P., Bolelov S.B., Balahvancev A.S. Vozvrashchenie v Drevnij Horezm: issledovaniya sovmestnoj rossijsko-karakalpakskoj ekspedicii na Ustyurte i Bol'shom Kyrk-Kyze. Vostok (Oriens). - 2019. - № 6. - p. 52–70. (Scopus).
Kitov E.P., Kitova A.O., Oralbaj E. Posmertnye manipulyacii s kostyami cheloveka (dannye o mumifikacii) u naseleniya Central'noj Azii v rannem zheleznom veke // Stratum plus. - 2016. - №3. – p. 369 – 379 (Scopus).