TOPOROV, Vladimir Nikolaevič. Moscow 5.7.1928 — Moscow 5.12.2005. Russian Indologist and IE Linguist. Son of an official. Graduated 1951 from Moscow University ( student of M. N. Peterson). Kand. filol. nauk 1955. From 1954 naučnyj sotrudnik at Instituta slavjanovedenija AN SSSR in Moscow, 1960 staršij naučnyj sotrudnik. Hon. Dr. filol.…
STAVISKIJ, Boris Jakovlevič. Svetlyj, obl. Irkutsk 25.11.1926 — 8.1.2006. Russian Central Asian Scholar (History and Archaeology). Son of an official. Graduated 1949 in Leningrad in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1954, Dr. ist. nauk 1979. In 1949-65 naučnyj sotrudnik in Central Asian Sector of Hermitage, in 1965-68 in Museum of Oriental…
SAZANOVA, Natal’ja Mihajlovna. Moscow 19.1.1932 — 17.4.2006. Russian Indologist (Hindi Literature). Daughter of official. Graduated 1954 from Moscow in history. Kand. filol. nauk 1962, Dr. filol. nauk 1984. From 1958 taught at Institute of Oriental Languages, Moscow University. Professor’s title 1989. Publications: At least 50 items, e.g. kand.diss. Problematika dramaturgii…
RASTORGUEVA, Vera Sergeevna. Manor of Storoževskij, Tambovskij Gub. (later Usmanskij rajon in Lipeckaja oblast) 23.5.(5.6.)1912 — 7.11.2005. Russian Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a farmer. Graduated 1938 in Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1944, Docent 1947, Dr. 1964, Professor 1969. In 1942-44 taught Iranian philology at University of Tadzhikistan, in 1945-60 at…
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…
KLIMOV, Georgij Andreevič. Leningrad 23.9.1928 — Moscow 29.4.1997. Russian Linguist, Specialist of Karthvelian and Caucasian languages. From 1946-52 studied Caucasology at Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1955 Tbilisi. From 1954 worked in Linguistic Institute of Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. filol. nauk 1965, Professor 1988. Married with his colleague Džoj Iosifovna…
KERŠNER-GORBUNOVA, Natal’ja Grigor’evna. Leningrad 2.3.1927 — 11.9.2000. Russian Archaeologist. Daughter of biologist Grigorij Petrovič Gorbunov (1894–1942) and Elena Mihajlovna Keršner, a music teacher. During WW II evacuated in Tashkent. From 1946 studied ancient history and archaeology of Central Asia in Leningrad. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. ist. nauk 1962. In 1951-58…
ČERNIKOVA, Sofija Aleksandrovna. v g. Satke Čeljabinskoj obl. 16.11.1936 — 1995. Russian Indologist (Urdu). Daughter of an official, graduated 1958 from Vost. Fak. of Taškent University. In 1963-64 further studies at Delhi University. Kand. filol. n. 1965 (Moscow). Teaching at Vost. Fak. of Taškent University from 1965. Docent 1970. Publications:…
BALIN, Viktor Iosifovič. Bolšoe Muraškino 20.10.1925 — 1991. Russian Indologist (Hindi). Son of a worker. 1943-45 in Red Army. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1956. Docent 1961. From 1952 taught at Oriental Faculty (1972 kafedr. ind. filologii), Leningrad. Publications: Kand.diss. Prem Čand – novellist. Manuscript of 426 p. Lg. 1956.…
BALAKIN, Andrej Andreevič. Orel (Oryol) 13.8.1883 — after 1926. Russian Oriental Scholar. Son of Andrej Il’ič Balakin, an army surgeon in reserve, and his wife Ekaterina Andreevna. Matriculated 1904 from Orlov classical gymnasium. Studied Oriental languages (especially Arabic under Krymskij) at St. Petersburg. Publications: ???. Sources: *M. Ju. Sorokina, “Kto…