About Boris Piotrovsky

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.

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Boris Piotrovsky

Soviet archaeologist (1908–1990)

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Occupation: anthropologist, art historian, archaeologist
Citizenship: Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
Born: February 1, 1908, 1908
Died: October 15, 1990, 1990

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