LUKONIN, Vladimir Grigor’evič. Leningrad 21.1.1932 — Leningrad 10.9.1984. Russian Art Historian of Iran (Sasanid Period). Son of an army general, mother a physician. Grew up in Leningrad, in 1941-44 in Samarkand. Studied at Leningrad Oriental Faculty. Graduated in 1955 from Leningrad University (Oriental Faculty). Kand. ist. nauk 1961, Dr. ist. nauk 1972. From 1957 naučnyj sotrudnik in Hermitage, from 1964 until death Director of its Oriental Department, in Leningrad. In 1951-63 excavations in Central Asia.
Publications: At least 30 items, including:
– Kand.diss. Iran v III–IV vv. (Složenie sasanidskogo gosudarstva i formirovanie pamjatnikov oficial’nogo stilja v iskusstve). Manuscript 1961.
– Dr.diss. Rannesasanidskij Iran. Nekotorye problemy istorii i kul’tury. Manuscript of 461 p. M. 1970.
– Iran v èpohu pervyh sasanidov. 80 p. Lg. 1961.– With A. Ja. Borisov: Sasanidskie gemmy. 222 p. Lg. 1963.
– Persia. 2. 232 p. Archaeologia Mundi. P. 1967 (in French and German).
– Kul’tura sasanidskogo Irana v III–V vv. 242 p. M. 1969.
– Iskusstvo drevnego Irana. 232 p. M. 1977; Drevnij i rannesrednevekov. Iran: Očerki istorii kul’tury. 296 p. M. 1987.
– With M. A. Dandamaev: Kul’tura i èkonomika drevnego Irana. 416 p. M. 1980; Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran. 740 p. Cambridge 1987.
– “Political, social and administrative institutions”, Cambridge History of Iran. 3:2. Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods. Cambridge 1983, 681-746.
Sources: M. Dandamaev & I. Medvedskaja, Encyclop. Iranica 2009 (online); Miliband 1975, 1995; *L. Vanden Berghe & Chr. Langevaert-Seeuws, Iranica Antiqua 19, 1984, with photo; Wikipedia; Russian Vikipedija with photo, also in French Wikipédia (as Loukonine).