# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-piotrovsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:13:30.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-piotrovsky"
name: "Boris Piotrovsky"
slug: "boris-piotrovsky"
description: "Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky, also Piotrovskii was a Soviet Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied the ancient civilizations of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia. He is best known as a key figure in the study of the Urartian civilization of the southern Caucasus. From 1964 until his death, Piotrovsky was also Director of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad."
tagline: "Soviet archaeologist (1908–1990)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1908-02-01"
deathDate: "1990-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump