D’JAKONOVA, Natal’ja Vasil’evna. St.Petersburg 28.11.(11.12.)1907 — 1996. Russian Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1930 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1946. In 1931 naučnyj sotrudnik in Ukrainian Oriental Institute (?) in Harkov, in 1932-35 and 1942-45 at Oriental Institute of Soviet Academy, in 1935-42 and 1945-54 at Hermitage. Apparently not related to M. M. D’jakonov.
Publications: At least 60 publications, e.g.:
– Kand.diss. Dva didaktič. otryvka Šahname Firdausi. Manuscript of 123 p. Lg. 1946.
– “Buddijsk. pamjatniki Dun’huana”, Tr. Otdela Vostoka Gos. Èrmitaža 4, 1947, 445-470.
– With S. S. Sorokin: Hotanskie drevnosti: Katalog hotansk. drevnostej, hranjaščihsja v Otdele Vostoka Gos. Èrmitaža: Terrakotta i štuk. 127 p. Lg. 1960.
– Iskusstvo narodov zarubežnogo Vostoka v Èrmitaže. 127 p. Lg. 1962.
Sources: Miliband 1995