ARCHAEOLOGIST

Boris Piotrovsky

1908 - 1990

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Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky, also Piotrovskii (Russian: Бори́с Бори́сович Пиотро́вский; February 14 [O.S. February 1] 1908 – October 15, 1990) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Piotrovsky has received more than 35,033 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Piotrovsky is the 127th most popular archaeologist (down from 117th in 2019), the 2,144th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,929th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Archaeologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 127 out of 151. Before him are Stith Thompson, Karel Absolon, Julio C. Tello, John Beazley, Dorothea Bate, and Robert John Braidwood. After him are James Quibell, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Michael D. Coe, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Davidson Black, and John M. Allegro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 342. Before him are Jim Brown, Sergey Urusevsky, Vladimír Syrovátka, Jean Claessens, John Doeg, and Sylvio Hoffmann. After him are Geirr Tveitt, Hélène Boucher, Franz Pfnür, Eberardo Villalobos, Rudolf Gramlich, and Ivan Brown. Among people deceased in 1990, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 250. Before him are Margarete Adler, Oscarino Costa Silva, Alfredo Pián, Malcolm Muggeridge, Peter Taylor, and Margaret Lockwood. After him are Ian Charleson, Władysław Rubin, Max Bulla, Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Costa Pereira, and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 2,144 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Dmitriev (1927), Jorma Valkama (1928), Vladimir Kara-Murza (1981), Alexei Kasatonov (1959), Igor Starygin (1946), and Olavi Paavolainen (1903). After him are Albert Coates (1882), Lyudmila Andonova (1960), Vera Maretskaya (1906), Semyon Nadson (1862), Igor Maslennikov (1931), and Yuri Samarin (1819).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Russia

Among archaeologists born in Russia, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 3. Before him are Gustaf Kossinna (1858), and Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909). After him are Alexey Okladnikov (1908).

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