Saul Abramzon

Saul Matveyevich Abramzon was a scientist-ethnographer, Turkologist, and specialist in Kyrgyz ethnology. Saul Abramzon graduated from Leningrad University in the former USSR. He specialized in Turkic ethnology under Turkologists like Samoilovich A.N. and S. E. Malov. Residing mostly in Leningrad, and working in Leningrad section of the Ethnography Institute, Saul Abramzon at the same time was a member of Kyrgyz scientific commission on history. He began scientific ethnography of the Kyrgyz people, and directed the Kyrgyz State museum in the Kyrgyz capital, Frunze. At that time, he worked simultaneously as a deputy director of the Kyrgyz Scientific Research Institute, a scientific custodian of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum, and later, a director of the Kyrgyz Ethnological Institute.