LELIKOV, Leonid Arkad’evič. Tomsk 3.1.1934 — 12.5.1988. Russian Historian of Iran. Son of a Civil Servant. Graduated 1958 from Moscow International Pedagogical Institute. Kand. ist. nauk 1975. In practical work (?) 1957-67, then naučnyj sotrudnik at Soviet Scientific Institute.

Publications: About 100 publications, kand. diss. Istorija monumental’n. živopisi drevn. i rannesrednevekov. Sredn. Azii. Manuscript of 195 p. M. 1975.

– “Termin ‘Ar’ja’ v drevneindijskoj i drevneiranskoj tradicijah”, Drevnjaja Indija. M. 1982, 148-163.

– Avesta v sovrem. nauke. 363 p. M. 1992.

Sources: Miliband 1995.