SEMENCOV, Vsevolod Sergeevič. Rudne-Garbovka, Žitomirskaja oblast’, Ukraine 2.7.1941 — Moscow 12.1.1986. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist. Son of Sergej Pavlovič Semencov, a forest engineer, and Varvara Ivanovna Orlova, a geologist. Studied first music, from 1963 Indian Philology at Moscow Institute of Oriental Languages, in 1967-68 also at Banaras Hindu University. In 1968-84 naučnyj sotrudnik at Moscow Oriental Institute. Kand. filol. nauk 1972 Moscow. From 1984 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institut filosofii of Russian Academy. Specialist in the Bhagavadgītā and Indian religious and philosophical thought. V. K. Šohin was his student.
Publications: Kand.diss. Ritmičeskaja struktura poètičeskogo teksta na primere analiza Bhagavadgity. Manuscript of 302 p. Moscow 1972.
– Bhagavadgita i Dhammapada. M. 1968.
– Problemy interpretacii brahmaničeskoj prozy (ritual’nyj simbolizm). 181 p. M. 1981.
– Bhagavadgita v tradicii i v sovremennoj naučnoj kritike. 238 p. M. 1985.
– Translated into Russian: Bhagavadgita. M. 1999.
– Articles, especially on the Bhagavadgītā.
Sources: V.I. Braginskij, NAA 1986:5, 212f.; not in Miliband 1977, but included in 1995; *V.K. Šohin, Vsevolod Sergeevič Semencov i rossijskaja indologija. 352 p. M. 2008; Russian Vikipedija with photo.
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