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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 32,524 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Piotrovsky is the 117th most popular archaeologist, the 1,933rd most popular biography from Russia and the 3rd most popular Russian Archaeologist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 117 out of 104. Before him are Julio C. Tello, Karel Absolon, Muhibbe Darga, John M. Allegro, Meave Leakey, and Grafton Elliot Smith. After him are Colin Groves, Ian Hodder, Mortimer Wheeler, Stith Thompson, Klaus Schmidt, and Paolo Orsi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 318. Before him are Celia Johnson, Olaf Hoffsbakken, Pablo Pacheco, Ugo Pignotti, Louis Daquin, and Helen Jacobs. After him are Albert Scherrer, Kaarlo Tuominen, Luis Pérez, Alberto Zozaya, Jacob Bronowski, and Marcel Pinel. Among people deceased in 1990, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 235. Before him are Sadi Irmak, Dries van der Lof, Georges de Rham, Ian Charleson, Ryan White, and Xosé María Díaz Castro. After him are Ramón Piñeiro López, Edward Binns, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Maurice Cloche, Marino Morettini, and Harold Eugene Edgerton.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Piotrovsky ranks 1,933 out of 3,262. Before him are Dmitri Prigov (1940), Pavel Bure (1971), Marina Anissina (1975), Denis Cheryshev (1990), Ivan Fomin (1872), and Igor Akinfeev (1986). After him are Viatcheslav Ekimov (1966), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Vera Glagoleva (1956), Ansa Ikonen (1913), Gennadiy Seleznyov (1947), and Yuri Chesnokov (1933).

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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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