Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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The Novo-Michailowski Palace houses the Institute for Oriental Manuscripts (formerly the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute for Oriental Studies)

The Institute for Oriental Studies (IOS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Russian Институт востоковедения Российской Академии Наук ), formerly the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , is a Russian research institution for Oriental Studies .

history

The history of the institute dates back to 1818, when the Asian Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg. In November 1818 it was decided to buy a collection of 700 Muslim manuscripts from the French consul Louis-Jacques Rousseau (1780–1831) for the Imperial Academy of Sciences . This project was realized in two steps in 1819 and 1825 and resulted in the opening of a new department. Initially as an Asian Museum, later converted into the Institute for Oriental Studies. At the suggestion of the then President of the Academy, Sergei Uvarow , a cabinet for Eastern medals, manuscripts and books was set up in the Asian Museum and made accessible to all. In November 1819 the first director of the museum, Christian Martin Joachim Frähn, published an annual report of the museum in the newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskije vedomosti .

The institute has been in Moscow since 1951 ; the former branch in Saint Petersburg was rededicated on June 19, 2007 as the location of the separate "Institute of Oriental Manuscripts" (IOM).

Directors of the institute

Moscow

  • May 2009–2015: Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Naumkin
  • since 2015: Valeri Pavlovich Androsov

Saint Petersburg until 2007

  • October 26, 1956–2. February 1961: Joseph Orbeli
  • June 2, 1961-14. June 1963: Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kononow
  • June 14, 1963-31. December 1996: Yuri Ashotovich Petrosian
  • January 1, 1997-9. April 2003: Yevgeny Ivanovich Kytschanow
  • from April 10, 2003: Irina Fyodorovna Popova

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Irina F. Popova: IOM RAS - History of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. orientalstudies.ru, December 10, 2011, retrieved on June 14, 2017 (translation from Russian into English by A.Zorin).
  2. ↑ “ In October 2013, at the same time that Veterans Today began publishing content from New Eastern Outlook, its sister site Veterans News Now began publishing content from the Strategic Culture Foundation, a Moscow think tank run by Yuri Profokiev, a former head of Moscow's Communist Party and member of the Soviet Politburo. ”( Politico.com ).