On the history of the St. Petersburg Assyriological school: Sergei Georgievich Koshurnikov

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Тhe article is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the remarkable Orientalist and teacher Sergei Georgievich Koshurnikov (1960–2002) who has trained many Russian Assyriologists and historians. It contains a biography of the scholar, supplemented by a description of his scholarly and pedagogical activities. The main areas of S.G. Koshurnikov’s activities are considered: research into the economy and political history of the city of Dilbat in the Old Babylonian era, research into the prosopography of Dilbat, study of the history of ancient Mesopotamia using computer technologies, creation of a database of Old Babylonian economic texts. The list of references includes all of the scholar’s published works.

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Vladimir V. Emelianov

St. Petersburg State University

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Email: banshur69@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5824-8792

Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Cand. Sci. (History), Professor of the Department of Semitic and Hebrew Studies

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

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3. Celebration of the Babylonian New Year at the Institute of Oriental Studies. “1 Nisan 1981”. Unknown, V.A. Jacobson, I.M. Dyakonov, L.A. Mochalova, L.V. Bobrova, S.G. Koshurnikov, unknown, unknown

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4. 16.01.1990. 75 years of I.M. Dyakonov. Leningrad Institute of Historical Sciences. From left to right: Valery Berezovsky, Larisa Bobrova, Sergey Koshurnikov, Rostislav Gribov, Alexander Militarev. Photo by Svetlana Shevelchinskaya

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