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Alexander Chayanov
Alexander V. Chayanov (Александр Васильевич Чаянов) (1888 – October 3, 1937) was a Soviet agrarian economist, and scholar of rural sociology and advocate of agrarianism and cooperatives.
Alexander V. Chayanov (Александр Васильевич Чаянов) (1888 – October 3, 1937) was a Soviet agrarian economist, and scholar of rural sociology and advocate of agrarianism and cooperatives.
Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek
Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek (Алекса́ндр Каси́мович Казембе́к or Казем-Бек; Azeri: Aleksandr Kazımbəy or Mirzə Kazım-bəy) (22 July 1802, Rasht, Iran—27 November 1870, St.Petersburg), Ru...
Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek (Алекса́ндр Каси́мович Казембе́к or Казем-Бек; Azeri: Aleksandr Kazımbəy or Mirzə Kazım-bəy) (22 July 1802, Rasht, Iran—27 November 1870, St.Petersburg), Ru...
Alexander Samoylovich
Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich was an important Russian Orientalist-Turkologist, academician of USSR Academy of Sciences, Rector of Leningrad Oriental Institute, academic secretary of Humani...
Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich was an important Russian Orientalist-Turkologist, academician of USSR Academy of Sciences, Rector of Leningrad Oriental Institute, academic secretary of Humani...
Alexander Tumansky
Tumanskiy, Aleksandr Grigor’evich (Russian: Туманский, Александр Григорьевич) (1861–1920) – Russian orientalist, military interpreter, Major General of Imperial Russian Army, belonged to an anci...
Tumanskiy, Aleksandr Grigor’evich (Russian: Туманский, Александр Григорьевич) (1861–1920) – Russian orientalist, military interpreter, Major General of Imperial Russian Army, belonged to an anci...
Alexander von Staël-Holstein
Baron Alexander Staël von Holstein; was a German-baltic aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist, specializing in Buddhist texts.
Baron Alexander Staël von Holstein; was a German-baltic aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist, specializing in Buddhist texts.
Anatoly Khazanov
Anatoly Khazanov (born December 13, 1937) is an anthropologist and historian.
Anatoly Khazanov (born December 13, 1937) is an anthropologist and historian.
Anatoly Novoseltsev
Anatoly Petrovich Novoseltsev was a Russian orientalist who brought to light and translated into Russian a slew of obscure Persian and Arab documents relating to the early history of Kievan Rus'.
Anatoly Petrovich Novoseltsev was a Russian orientalist who brought to light and translated into Russian a slew of obscure Persian and Arab documents relating to the early history of Kievan Rus'.
Andrey Korotayev
Andrey Korotayev (Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев, born 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural...
Andrey Korotayev (Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев, born 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural...
Anna Suvorova
Anna A. Suvorova is a Russian Orientalist and art critic.
Anna A. Suvorova is a Russian Orientalist and art critic.
Boris L. Tageev
Boris Lyeonidovich Tagyeev (Борис Леонидович Тагеев) (1871-1938) was a Russian Orientalist, explorer, and writer.
Boris Lyeonidovich Tagyeev (Борис Леонидович Тагеев) (1871-1938) was a Russian Orientalist, explorer, and writer.
Boris Piotrovsky
Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky was a Soviet Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied the ancient civilizations of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia.
Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky was a Soviet Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied the ancient civilizations of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia.
Daniel Chwolson
Daniel Abramovich Chwolson or Chwolsohn or Khvolson - was a Russian-Jewish orientalist.
Daniel Abramovich Chwolson or Chwolsohn or Khvolson - was a Russian-Jewish orientalist.
Esper Ukhtomsky
Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky, Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский (1861–1921) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia.
Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky, Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский (1861–1921) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia.
Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov
Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (Евгений Иванович Кычанов; also transcribed as Yevgeny Ivanovich Kychanov, born 22 June 1932 in Sarapul, Udmurtia) is a Soviet and Russian orientalist, an expert o...
Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (Евгений Иванович Кычанов; also transcribed as Yevgeny Ivanovich Kychanov, born 22 June 1932 in Sarapul, Udmurtia) is a Soviet and Russian orientalist, an expert o...
Frolova Olga Pavlovna
Olga Pavlovna Frolova (Chernykh) / Russian: Óльга Пáвловна Фролóва (Черны́х) (born 1931, Manchuria, Northeast China) — is a Russian orientalist who wrote her major works on the Japanese and Chin...
Olga Pavlovna Frolova (Chernykh) / Russian: Óльга Пáвловна Фролóва (Черны́х) (born 1931, Manchuria, Northeast China) — is a Russian orientalist who wrote her major works on the Japanese and Chin...
George de Roerich
George Nikolaevich Roerich (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Рерих) (1902 – 1960) was a prominent 20th century Tibetologist.
George Nikolaevich Roerich (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Рерих) (1902 – 1960) was a prominent 20th century Tibetologist.
Gombojab Tsybikov
Gombojab Tsybikov (Гомбожаб Цэбекович Цыбиков Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov; Цэвэгийн Гомбожав, alternatively romanized as Gombozhab and Tsybikoff (20 April 1873 – 20 September ...
Gombojab Tsybikov (Гомбожаб Цэбекович Цыбиков Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov; Цэвэгийн Гомбожав, alternatively romanized as Gombozhab and Tsybikoff (20 April 1873 – 20 September ...
Grigory Potanin
Grigory Nikolayaevich Potanin (alt. Grigorij Potanin)(Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 - 6 June 1920) was a Russian explorer of Inner Asia who aligned himself with the Siberian separa...
Grigory Nikolayaevich Potanin (alt. Grigorij Potanin)(Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 - 6 June 1920) was a Russian explorer of Inner Asia who aligned himself with the Siberian separa...
Igor Diakonov
Igor Mikhailovich Diakonov (И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert in the Ancient Near East and its languages.
Igor Mikhailovich Diakonov (И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert in the Ancient Near East and its languages.
Igor M. Diakonoff
Igor Mikhailovich Diakonov (И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert in the Ancient Near East and its languages.
Igor Mikhailovich Diakonov (И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert in the Ancient Near East and its languages.
Iosif Goshkevich
Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich (Иосиф Антонович Гошкевич, 1814 – October 5, 1875) was a Russian diplomat and Orientalist.
Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich (Иосиф Антонович Гошкевич, 1814 – October 5, 1875) was a Russian diplomat and Orientalist.
Isaac Broydé
Isaac David Broydé (February 23, 1867, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire – April 15, 1922, New York City) was a Jewish Orientalist and librarian.
Isaac David Broydé (February 23, 1867, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire – April 15, 1922, New York City) was a Jewish Orientalist and librarian.
Isaac Jacob Schmidt
Isaac Jacob Schmidt (October 4, 1779 – August 27, 1847) was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan.
Isaac Jacob Schmidt (October 4, 1779 – August 27, 1847) was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan.
Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin
Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin (September 27, 1887-February 3, 1964) was a Soviet specialist of Iranian languages, particularly Pamir languages.
Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin (September 27, 1887-February 3, 1964) was a Soviet specialist of Iranian languages, particularly Pamir languages.
Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn
Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, also cited as Boris Andreevich Dorn (April 29, 1805 in Scheierfeld, Saxe-Coburg, Germany – May 19, 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a German orientalist.
Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, also cited as Boris Andreevich Dorn (April 29, 1805 in Scheierfeld, Saxe-Coburg, Germany – May 19, 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a German orientalist.
Joseph Orbeli
Joseph Orbeli was a renowned Soviet orientalist and academician of Armenian descent who specialized in medieval history of Southern Caucasus and administered the State Hermitage Museum in Lening...
Joseph Orbeli was a renowned Soviet orientalist and academician of Armenian descent who specialized in medieval history of Southern Caucasus and administered the State Hermitage Museum in Lening...
Julius Brutzkus
Julius Davidovich Brutzkus or Judah Loeb Brutzkus (יהודה ליבּ בֶּן־דָּוִד ברוצקוס, Yehuda Loeb ben David Brutzkus, Юлий Давидович Бруцкус; 1870 in Palanga – January 27, 1951 in Tel Avi...
Julius Davidovich Brutzkus or Judah Loeb Brutzkus (יהודה ליבּ בֶּן־דָּוִד ברוצקוס, Yehuda Loeb ben David Brutzkus, Юлий Давидович Бруцкус; 1870 in Palanga – January 27, 1951 in Tel Avi...
Józef Sękowski
Józef Julian Sękowski (Осип Иванович Сенковский, Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky; in Antagonka, near Vilnius — in Saint Petersburg) was a Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, and ent...
Józef Julian Sękowski (Осип Иванович Сенковский, Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky; in Antagonka, near Vilnius — in Saint Petersburg) was a Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, and ent...
Kamilla Trever
Kamilla Vasilyevna Trever was a Russian historian and orientalist, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 29 September 1943.
Kamilla Vasilyevna Trever was a Russian historian and orientalist, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 29 September 1943.
Kir Bulychev
Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko, who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian.
Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko, who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian.
Ludmila Vassilyeva
Ludmila Vassilyeva (born May, 23, 1942) is a Russian scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Ludmila Vassilyeva (born May, 23, 1942) is a Russian scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Max Seligsohn
Max Seligsohn (April 13, 1865, Russia –) was a Russian-American Orientalist.
Max Seligsohn (April 13, 1865, Russia –) was a Russian-American Orientalist.
Mikhail Kryukov
Mikhail Kryukov (born 1932) is an anthropologist and historian.
Mikhail Kryukov (born 1932) is an anthropologist and historian.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is the Director of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is the Director of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Natalia Zhukovskaia
Natalia L’vovna Zhukovskaia (Наталья Львовна Жуковская) is one of the foremost scholars working on Buryat history, culture, and religious life in Russia.
Natalia L’vovna Zhukovskaia (Наталья Львовна Жуковская) is one of the foremost scholars working on Buryat history, culture, and religious life in Russia.
Nicholas Poppe
Nicholas N. Poppe (Никола́й (Ни́колас) Никола́евич Поппе; July 27, 1897, Yantai, Qing China – August 8, 1991, Seattle) was an important Russian linguist.
Nicholas N. Poppe (Никола́й (Ни́колас) Никола́евич Поппе; July 27, 1897, Yantai, Qing China – August 8, 1991, Seattle) was an important Russian linguist.
Nikita Bichurin
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, better known under his monastic name Hyacinth, or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Sinology.
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, better known under his monastic name Hyacinth, or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Sinology.
Nikolai Dmitriev
Nikolai Konstantinovich Dmitriev (Russian Дмитриев Николай Константинович 1898-1954) was Doctor of Philology, professor, an outstanding Orientalist-Turkologist, corresponding member of the U...
Nikolai Konstantinovich Dmitriev (Russian Дмитриев Николай Константинович 1898-1954) was Doctor of Philology, professor, an outstanding Orientalist-Turkologist, corresponding member of the U...
Nikolai Fedorenko
Nikolai Trofimovich Fedorenko was a Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor, and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nikolai Trofimovich Fedorenko was a Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor, and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nikolai Kuehner
Nikolai Kuehner (also Kühner, Kuhner, Кюнер Николай Васильевич, 14 September 1877, Tiflis - April 5, 1955, Leningrad) was a prominent scientist known as Orientalist, Sinologist...
Nikolai Kuehner (also Kühner, Kuhner, Кюнер Николай Васильевич, 14 September 1877, Tiflis - April 5, 1955, Leningrad) was a prominent scientist known as Orientalist, Sinologist...
Nikolai Yadrintsev
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yadrintsev was a Russian public figure, explorer, archaeologist, and turkologist.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yadrintsev was a Russian public figure, explorer, archaeologist, and turkologist.
Nikolay Baskakov
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Baskakov (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Баска́ков; 1905-1995) was a Russian Turkologist, linguist, and ethnologist.
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Baskakov (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Баска́ков; 1905-1995) was a Russian Turkologist, linguist, and ethnologist.
Nikolay Ilminsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Il'minskii (Николай Иванович Ильминский; 1822–1891) was a Russian turkologist.
Nikolai Ivanovich Il'minskii (Николай Иванович Ильминский; 1822–1891) was a Russian turkologist.
Nikolay Kradin
Nikolay Nikolaevich Kradin is a Russian anthropologist and archaeologist.
Nikolay Nikolaevich Kradin is a Russian anthropologist and archaeologist.
Nikolay Veselovsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky (Николай Иванович Веселовский, November 1848 - 30 March 1918) was a Russian archaeologist and orientalist, specializing on the history and archaeology of Central Asia.
Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky (Николай Иванович Веселовский, November 1848 - 30 March 1918) was a Russian archaeologist and orientalist, specializing on the history and archaeology of Central Asia.
Otto Rosenberg
Otto Karl Julius Rosenberg (Оттон Оттонович Розенберг; – November 26, 1919) was a Russian scholar who created a system of organizing Chinese characters in a dictionary format, which eventually ...
Otto Karl Julius Rosenberg (Оттон Оттонович Розенберг; – November 26, 1919) was a Russian scholar who created a system of organizing Chinese characters in a dictionary format, which eventually ...
Peter A. Boodberg
Peter Alexis Boodberg in American spelling, was an American sinologist of Russian origin.
Peter Alexis Boodberg in American spelling, was an American sinologist of Russian origin.
Pyotr Kafarov
Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (Pre-reform Russian: Петръ Ива́новичъ Кафа́ровъ) (Modern Russian: Пётр Ива́нович Кафа́ров), also known by his monastic name Palladius (Pre-reform Russian: Палла́дій...
Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (Pre-reform Russian: Петръ Ива́новичъ Кафа́ровъ) (Modern Russian: Пётр Ива́нович Кафа́ров), also known by his monastic name Palladius (Pre-reform Russian: Палла́дій...
Pyotr Kozlov
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was a Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet he was a notorious homosexual and contracted several se...
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was a Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet he was a notorious homosexual and contracted several se...
Sergey Malov
Sergey Efimovich Malov was a Russian Turkologist who made important contributions to the documentation of archaic and contemporary Turkic languages, classification of the Turkic alphabets, and t...
Sergey Efimovich Malov was a Russian Turkologist who made important contributions to the documentation of archaic and contemporary Turkic languages, classification of the Turkic alphabets, and t...
Svetoslav Roerich
Svetoslav Nikolaevich Roerich Russian painter, son of Nicholas Roerich, studied from a young age under his father's tutelage.
Svetoslav Nikolaevich Roerich Russian painter, son of Nicholas Roerich, studied from a young age under his father's tutelage.
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, was a Prussian classical scholar with specialization in Sinology.
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, was a Prussian classical scholar with specialization in Sinology.
Vasily Radlov
Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff was a German-born Russian founder of Turkology, a scientific study of Turkic peoples.
Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff was a German-born Russian founder of Turkology, a scientific study of Turkic peoples.
Vasily Vasilievich Struve
Vasily Vasilievich Struve was a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family, the founder of the Soviet scientific school of researchers on Ancient Near East history.
Vasily Vasilievich Struve was a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family, the founder of the Soviet scientific school of researchers on Ancient Near East history.
Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov
Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanov (also Wladimir Ivanow; November 3, 1886- June 19, 1970) was a Russian orientalist.
Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanov (also Wladimir Ivanow; November 3, 1886- June 19, 1970) was a Russian orientalist.
Vladimir Golenishchev
Vladimir Semyonovich Golenishchev was one of the first and most accomplished Russian Egyptologists.
Vladimir Semyonovich Golenishchev was one of the first and most accomplished Russian Egyptologists.
Vladimir Minorsky
Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky (Владимир Фёдорович Минорский; February 5, 1877 – March 25, 1966) was a Russian Orientalist best known for his contributions to Kurdish and Persian history, geo...
Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky (Владимир Фёдорович Минорский; February 5, 1877 – March 25, 1966) was a Russian Orientalist best known for his contributions to Kurdish and Persian history, geo...
Vladimir Shileyko
Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko (also Shileiko, Shilejko Владимир Казимирович Шилейко) (February 14, 1891 — October 5, 1930) was a Russian orientalist (assyriologist, hebraist) poet (acmeis...
Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko (also Shileiko, Shilejko Владимир Казимирович Шилейко) (February 14, 1891 — October 5, 1930) was a Russian orientalist (assyriologist, hebraist) poet (acmeis...
Vyacheslav Rybakov
Vyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China.
Vyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China.
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов, born 21 August 1929, Moscow) is a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottali...
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов, born 21 August 1929, Moscow) is a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottali...
Yevgeny Polivanov
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов; was a Soviet linguist, orientalist and polyglot.
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов; was a Soviet linguist, orientalist and polyglot.
Yuri Bregel
Yuri Bregel (Юрий Энохович Брегель, born November 13, 1925) is a prominent academic in the field of Central Asian studies.
Yuri Bregel (Юрий Энохович Брегель, born November 13, 1925) is a prominent academic in the field of Central Asian studies.