Boris Piotrovsky
Russian academic
Born on: February 14, 1908Died on: October 15, 1990
Aged: 82 years 243 days (992 months)
Birth Sign: Aquarius
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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