Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels

Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels or Berthels ; was a Soviet-Russian Orientalist, Iranologist and Turkologist, Professor of the Leningrad State University, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), Academy of Persian Language and Literature (1944), Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan (1951), and Arab Academy of Damascus (1955). In the 1930s–1950s, he was the head of the Soviet School of Persian and Central Asian Turkic Studies. In 1942, during World War II, or the Great Patriotic War, and the Siege of Leningrad, Bertels was evacuated with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences from Leningrad to Tashkent, and later to Moscow, and Bertels moved to permanent residence in Moscow until his death.