MARŠAK, Boris Il’ič. Luga 9.7.1933 — Pendžikent 28.7.2006. Russian Archaeologist and Iranian (Sogdian) Scholar. Son of an official, grew up in Leningrad. Graduated 1956 from Moscow in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1965 Leningrad. In 1956-58 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography in Dushanbe, from 1961 at Oriental Department of Hermitage in Leningrad, from 1979 Head of its Central Asian and Caucasian Department. Dr. ist. nauk 1982 Moscow. Excavations at Panjikent from 1954 on, director of its excavations 1978-2006, although after 1991 the work was difficult in independent Tajikistan.
Publications: At least 100 items, e.g. kand.diss. Keramika sogda V–VII vv. kak istoriko-kul’turnyj pamjatnik. Manuscript of 478 p. Lg. 1965.
– “Otčet o rabotah na ob’ekte XII za 1955–1960 gg.”, Trudy Tadžikskoj arheologičeskoj èkspedicii 4. M.-Lg. 1964, 182-243.
– Sogdijskoe serebro. Očerki po vostočnoj torevtike. 157 p. M. 1971 (in Russian and English).
– With A. M. Belenitski & A. Sollohub: “L’art de Piandjikent à la lumière des dernières fouilles (1958-1968)”, Arts as. 23, 1971, 3-39.
– With F. Grenet: “Le mythe de Nana dans l’art de la Sogdiane”, Arts as. 53, 1998, 5-18.
– “Serebrjanoe bljudo so scenoj poleta Aleksandra Makedonskogo”, Vizantinorossika 2, 2003, 1-41.
Sources: Miliband 1976, 1995; *D.Straub, SAA 1999. Groningen 2008, xxif. with photo; Wikipedia (note also Russian version).
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