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Disable on the page of Igor Mikhailovich Dyakonov on all pages of the authors to preserve the biography-Igor Dyakonov Igor Mikhailovich Dyakonov-Soviet and Russian orientalist, historian, linguist, specialist in the Sumerian language, comparative-historical grammar of Afrasian languages, ancient writing, history of historical sciences, Academician. Ranen; Honorary member of the British Royal Asian Society, the British Academy, the American Academy of Sciences and Arts, the American Society of Orientalists, other foreign oriental societies, as well as many Soviet, Russian and foreign editorials, Honorary Doctor of Chicago University.

Igor Mikhailovich Dyakonov was born in Petrograd. Father, Mikhail Alekseevich Dyakonov, subsequently the writer and ... translator, worked at that time banking employees; Mother, Maria Pavlovna, was a doctor. Igor Mikhailovich had two brothers: the eldest, Mikhail, and the youngest, Alexei. Here D. in the year Igor Mikhailovich graduated from the Soviet school in Leningrad.

Riftin, under his leadership, began to study the collection N. In the year Dyakonov married a fellow student Nina Yakovlevna Storen, who later became a leutite-reader. In the year, Dyakonov’s father was arrested with an official sentence for 10 years without the right to correspondence and shot in the same year. The father -in -law Dyakonov was also arrested in the year, but survived.

In the year, Dyakonov’s father was rehabilitated for the lack of corpus delicti. Despite the fact that Dyakonov became the “son of the enemy of the people”, he was able to finish the last course. He studied Yiddish, Arabic, Hebrew, Akkadsky, ancient Greek and other languages. In the year, Dyakonov, as an ErmaTAGA officer, was mobilized to evacuate valuable collections.

Subsequently, he served the whole war as a translator at the headquarters of the Karelian Front, was appointed representative of the command in the city of Kirkenes, whose honorary citizen was elected already in peacetime. During the war, his younger brother, Alexei Dyakonov, died. Dyakonov was demobilized in the year and returned to the university. His supervisor, Alexander Pavlovich Rifin, died in the year, and Dyakonov became an assistant to the Department of Semitology, which was headed by I.

In the same year, Igor Mikhailovich defended his thesis on land relations in Assyria and began teaching. After closing against the background of the campaign on the “fight against cosmopolitanism” the Department of Semitology in Dyakonov returned to work in the Hermitage. After the reorganization of the Institute of Oriental Studies, he began to work in his Leningrad branch.

The range of his work extended to completely different areas of ancient history. In X together with V. Livshits and his older brother Iranian Mikhail Mikhailovich Dyakonov, he carried out work on decryption and publication of Parthian documents from Nisa found during archaeological excavations in Turkmenistan.

In the year of Dyakonov, in collaboration with I. Dunaevskaya and J. Storer, he published a unique comparative study of Babylonian, Assyrian and Hittite laws. The candidate of historical sciences gained wide fame on the history of ancient Eastern civilizations, works on cultural, socio-economic and political history of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Urartu, Parfia, Mussels.

In the year he published a book on the history of Medes. In the year, he published all the uraurt texts known by that time on clay tablets. The author of a significant part of the sections in the multi-volume study of the “History of the Ancient East” M. became actually the creator of a number of new areas of philological research-the equal historical Afrazi and Hurritic-Urartic linguistics, organized and headed the collective work to create a comparative historical dictionary of Afrazian languages.

In the year, the new translations of biblical books made by Dyakonov - “Songs of the Songs” and “The Books of the Ecclesiastes”, in the year - the translation of “Crying Jeremiah”.