Every three years, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences awards the S. F. Oldenburg Prize to one of the leading researchers of Asia - in the field of archeology, philology, linguistics, history of religious and philosophical teachings, art and other Oriental sciences. In 2006 the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences decided to award the S. F. Oldenburg Prize to B. A. Litvinsky for a series of works on the history and archeology of Central Asia: "Eastern Turkestan in Ancient and Early Middle Ages "(vol. I-IV)," Hellenistic temple of Oxus in Bactria "(vol.I - II),"Ajina-Tepa Buddhist Monastery". Boris Anatolyevich Litvinsky is a major, well-known and internationally recognized scientist, an outstanding researcher of Central and Central Asia, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Republic of Tajikistan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Linchi (Italy), corresponding member. German Archaeological Institute, corresponding member. Member of the Editorial Board and editorial boards of the journals "Vestnik drevnoi Istorii", " Vostok (Oriens)", " From Scythia to Siberia "(Leiden), Bulletin of the Institute of Asia (USA), the multi-volume Encyclopedia Iranica (USA), the popular science series Militaria Antiqua, created by the publishing house Petersburg Oriental Studies, winner of the prize of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Roman Girshman for achievements in the field of Iranian studies, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. page 212 Boris Anatolyevich Litvinsky was born on April 17, 1923 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). He graduated from the Central Asian State University (SAGU) with a degree in the Department of Archaeology of Central Asia. In 1944-1945 he participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War on the 1st Belorussian Front as a platoon commander of submachine gunners. B. A. Litvinsky was awarded the Order of the Red Star, two Orders of the P ... Читать далее