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Boris Piotrovsky

Soviet archaeologist (1908-1990) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 82

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.

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Stalin Prize
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of the October Revolution
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
Deserved scientist of ArmSSR
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of Cyril and Methodius
Pour le Mérite
Honored Scientist of Armenia
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Zasłużony Działacz Kultury
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

About this person

From 1964 until his death, Piotrovsky was also Director of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.

Country
Russia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1990 · aged 82

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