Litvinsky biography

Litvinsky B. Books online Litvinsky Boris Anatolyevich - the famous Soviet and Russian orientalist, archaeologist, founder of the Scientific School of Archeology in Tajikistan. Boris Anatolyevich Litvinsky was born on April 17. It was in Proletarsk that the childhood years of young Boris were held, and here, in the vicinity of the village, he first met archaeological monuments, observing the remnants of ancient buildings.

Interest in history was formed by Boris at an early age. After graduating from school with honors, Boris Anatolyevich intended to enter the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History and was accepted without exams. But since the family at that time did not have the opportunity to rent housing in Moscow, he remained in Tashkent and entered the university at the Faculty of History, where outstanding researchers of the history of Central Asia - M.

Masson, M. Andreev, N. Mallitsky, O., the meeting with M. Masson, who headed the Department of Archeology, turned out to be determined. The famous archaeologist drew attention to the student works of Boris Litvinsky and Elena Davidovich, saw great potential in them and became their mentor and scientific director. Thus began the path of two young researchers in archeology, which connected their fate not only in scientific terms - in the city of Boris Anatolyevich and Elena Abramovna became husband and wife.

With the outbreak of World War II, Boris Anatolyevich joined the ranks of volunteers. After graduating from a machine gun school in the city during the war, B. Litvinsky went from Warsaw to Berlin, fighting at the front line.

At the Zeelovsky heights, he was seriously wounded and was demobilized. After the war, he returned to Tashkent and continued his studies at the university, preparing to take exams in two years and at the same time working on the thesis. In the city of Boris Anatolyevich graduated from the University with a red diploma and received from M. Masss the proposal to continue his studies in graduate school.

With the city of Litvinsky, he was appointed to administrative work at the Uzbek Scientific Research Institute of Art The Code of Art, becoming Deputy Director for the Scientific Part. But this activity did not attract a scientist at all, who, in his own words, was drawn on an expedition. He sought to devote all his free time to research, work in libraries and soon changed his place of work, agreeing to accept an invitation from B.

Gafurov to work in Tajikistan, and Boris Anatolyevich was appointed head of the archeology sector at the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography, and from that moment the special page of his biography began. It was with Tajikistan that the most significant events were connected in the scientific life of an outstanding researcher, almost the entire ancient and medieval history of the Tajik people was based on his works.

Litvinsky began working at the Institute of Oriental Studies, where he first managed the sector of antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then prior to G., large -scale research was carried out in Uzbekistan, where Boris Anatolyevich studied the monuments of the Bronze Age, and opened the world of ancient cities and settlements of the Middle Ages. He was interested in the history of mining, the formation and development of cities, ancient and medieval architecture, and the development of culture.

He possessed encyclopedic knowledge and incredible ability to work, alone performing a huge amount of work comparable to the work of the whole. The scientific heritage of Boris Anatolyevich includes about publications - articles, monographs, textbooks and textbooks. In addition to numerous publications, he regularly gave lectures not only in domestic universities, but also leading universities in the world - Harvard, Berkeley, Sorbonne, Heidelberg and Berlin Universities, as well as in the British Museum, the Gima Museum and other scientific institutions.

This is the third edition and the second in Russian materials of the excavations of Adzhina-Tepe-the Buddhist Monastery of the 7th century. Compared to the first Russian edition of G., the special head of the monograph is devoted to the history of Buddhism in Central Asia. The book is designed both for specialists in the field of archeology of Central and Central Asia, and on all those who are interested in the material and spiritual culture of the ancient Middle East.