NOVIKOVA, Vera Aleksandrovna. Moscow 16.2.1918 — 10.4.1972. Russian Indologist, specialist of Bengali. Daughter of an official, graduated 1940 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1953, Docent 1956. Naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute, Leningrad, in 1949-50, taught Indian Philology at Leningrad University from 1952.

Publications: At least 50 publications, i.al.

– Kand.diss. Bonkimčondro Čattopadh’ja kak pisatel’ i publicist. Manuscript of 288 p. Lg. 1953.

– Hrestomatija po bengal’skoj proze XIX veka. 191 p. M. 1960.

– Očerk istorii bengal’skoj literatury X–XVIII vekov. 144 p. Lg. 1965.

– Bonkimčondro Čottopaddhaj. Žizn i tvorčestvo. 210 p. Lg. 1969, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya: his life and works. Translated by N. Banerjee. 237 p. Calcutta 1976

Sources: *N.V. Gurov & T.E. Katenina, NAA 1972:6, 237-239; Miliband 1977.