IN
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Due to financial support from the inter- national fund organization for science
the Russian Academy of Sciences along with "The Science Publishers"
have come out with the two-volume "Biobiblio graphical Register of Russian
Scholars of the Eastern Cultures Since 1917" .This second edition
rearranged and complemented (the first edition was made in 1975) was compiled by
Sophia Davydovna Milliband, the leading bibliographer of the Institute of
Eastern Cultures with the then USSR Academy of Sciences as well as of the
Institute of Scientific Information on social sciences now with the Russian
Academy of Sciences. This fundamental work contains of full bio- graphical and
bibliographical notes on an major Russian and Soviet scholars of eastern
cultures as well as references to their
biographies and scientific activities. Both volumes run up to 1,467pages.
This register among others enlists information on life and activity of most
prominent Assyrians who made considerable contributions in the assyriological
vein. Those were professor Konstantin Petrovich Matveyev (Bar Mattai), associate
professor Georgi Venjaminovich Arsanis and master of history Lev Mikhailovich
Sargisov.
Obviously our readers will be interested to know those scientists who worked in
the assyriological vein. Now we will bring to your focus a short list of big
names and major works in the alphabetical order that have been published in
Russia on history, culture and language of peoples of Assyria and Babylonia
accordingly.
AFANASJEV
A Veronika Konstantinovna (Eastern culture branch of the state Hermitage
museum):
1.
The art of the two rivers land (1968);
2.
The architectural aspect in the two rivers basin and in Mesopotamia (1970)
3.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu: epic images in the art (1979);
4.
Literature of Babylonia and Assyria (1981).
GRIBOV
Rostislav Antonovich (Leningrad State University)
1.
Assyria in the reign of Shamshi-Adade 1(1971).
DANDAMAEV
Muhammad Abdulkadyrovich (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern
Cultures with the USSR Academy of Sciences):
1.
Serfdom in Babylonia in 7 to 4 c.BC (1974);
2.
Babylonia in late 2nd and fIrst half of the first millennium BC ( 1984 );
3.
Greeks in the Hellenic Babylonia (1985).
DJAKONOV
Igor Mikhailovich (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures with
the USSR Academy of Sciences):
1.
Introduction of the literal form in the two rivers land (1940);
2.
Landownership in Assyria (1949);
3.
Laws in Babylonia, Assyria and in the kingdom of Khetts (1952).
KAPLAN
Golda Khaimovna (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures with the
USSR Academy of Sciences):
1.
The verb in the mid-Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language ( 1969);
2.
The use of stative in the Akkadian language (on the basis of the mid-Assyrian
dialect)
( 1985).
KIKNADZE
Zurab Georgievich (The Institute of Eastern Cultures with the Georgian Academy
of Sciences):
1.
Gilgamesh story (1963);
2.
The dream of Tammus: poetry in the two rivers land literature ( 1969);
3.
Myths in the two rivers land (1976);
4.
Glossary of myths in the two rivers land ( 1985).
KLOCHKOV
Igor Sergeyevich (Institute of Eastern Cultures with the USSR Academy of
Sciences): "'
1.
The story of Akhikare: the historical aspect ( 1977);
2.
Social and ethnical conceptions of Babylonians {1978) ;
3.
The idea of time in the ancient Mesopotamia (1980);
4.
Spiritual culture of Babylonia (1983).
KOZYREV
A Nelli Vladimirovna (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures):
1.
The old Babylonian period of the Mesopotamian history ( 1982).
LIPIN
Lev Aleksandrovich (Leningrad State University):
1.
The Assyrian patriarchal family: the last half of the second millennium BC (
1948);
2.
The oldest laws of Mesopotamia (1954);
3.
The Akkadian language (assyro.;babylonian) (1957).
MENTESHAS1;1VILI
Albert Mikhailovich (Tbilisi State University):
1.
Kurdish national liberation movement in Iraq in 1930 to 1932 (1963);
2.
Some aspects of the national Assyrian liberation movement after the bolshevik
revo- lution ( 1967);
3.
Iraq in the time of British mandate (1969).
MESCHERSKA
YA Elena Nikitichna (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures):
1.
Legend of Avgar, an early Syrian artistic milestone (1973).
NIKOLSKY
Nikolai Mikhailovich (Institute of History with the gelorussian Academy of
Sciences): ..
1.
Community in the ancient two rivers land ( 1938); c
2.
Landowners and the use of land in the ancient two rivers land (in the vein of
Assyro- Babylonian society in 3 to 1 millennium BC) (1948);
3.
The culture of the ancient Babylonia (1959).
PAIKOV
A Aza Vladimirovna (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures):
1.
The old Syrian cover version of the "Kalila and Dimna" selected
stories ( 1966); . .
2.
On the introduction of the belles lettres. style in the Syrian literature
(1971);
3.
Legends and myths in milestones of the Syrian life descriptions of saints
{1990):
,PIGULEVSKA
Y A Nirta Victorovna (Institute of Eastern Cultures with the USSR Academy
of
Sciences):
1.
The life story of Sahdona from the Nestorian history of the 7th century
(1928);
2.
Mesopotamia in 5th to 7th centuries: the Syrian chronicles of Joshua Stilites
as the hisorical reference source (1939);
3.'The
story of Mar Jabalahi 3rd and Rabban Sauma (1958);
4.
Syrian culture in Middle Ages (1979).
RTSHILADZE
.Rusudan Stepanovna (Instittite_of history, archaeology and ethnography
with the Georgian Academy of Sciences):
1.
The late period of the Babylonian history as in "Herodotes
chronicles" (19.71);
2. Some
aspects of Babylonian beliefs (1977).
RYLOV
A Rimma Gatovna (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures):
1.
The grammar of the Syrian language according to Ilya of Tirkhan, the 11th
century (1965).
SARKISSY
AN Gaghik Khorenovich (Institute of Eastern Cultures with the Armenian Academy
of Sciences):
1.
The sociological aspect of the ancient notary and legal systems in the
Hellenic Babylonia (1957);
2.
New aspects of township lands in the Selevkidian Babylonia (1973).
SVANI
Daredjan Davydovna (Institute of Eastern Cultures with the Georgian Academy of
Sciences):
1.
Treatise on the Syrian language by Arseniy Fahuri (1975).
SERIKOV
Nikolai Igorevich (Institute of Eastern Cultures with the USSR Academy of Sci-
ences):
1.
The ancient history in Bar Ebraya's "Tarih Mukhtasar Adduval" (13th
c.) as a refer- ence source for interaction of Arab and Byzantine cultures
(1987).
SOLOVJEV
A Svetlana Semenovna (Moscow University of Peoples' Friendship):
1.
The Assyrian military power in the reign of Ashurbanipal and the Near Asia
countries ( 1970);
2.
Arabs in the struggle with the Assyrian military power in the mid-7th c. B.C.
(1971);
3.
The memory of Assyria in the works of antique and Middle Ages writers (1980).
TSERETELI
Konstantin Grigorjevich (Institute of Eastern Cultures with the Georgian Academy
of Sciences):
1.
On the harmony of vowels in the Urmian dialect of the Aramaic language (1946);
2.
Sketches of comparative phonetics of modern Assyrian dialects (1955);
3.
The modern Assyrian language (1964);
4.
The tales of Assyria ( 1975);
5.
The Syrian language ( 197');
6.
The Aramaic language (1982);
7.
On Akkado-Aramaic language interaction (1988).
JACOBSON
Vladimir Aronovich (Leningrad branch of the Institute of Eastern Cultures):
1.
The social struture of the new Assyrian kingdom (1965);
2.
The law versus the society in the new Assyrian kingdom (1967);
3.
The introduction of the written legal forms in the ancient Mesopotamia (1981);
4. Literature of Babylonia and Assyria (1984);
5.
Hammurapi's laws as the reference source for the history (1988);
6.
Kings and towns in ancient Mesopotamia ( 1989).
