On October 19, 2001, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, died in Tashkent at the age of 96. Honored Scientist of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Boris Vladimirovich Lunin is the author of an extensive series of remarkable works on the history of Russian Oriental studies, on the archeology of Central Asia and on the role of Russian science and culture in the East. B. V. Lunin was born on July 18, 1906 in Geneva, where his parents temporarily lived together with his paternal grandfather, a political emigrant, a well-known revolutionary democrat Viktor Ignatievich Lunin, an associate of N. G. Chernyshevsky. Father, Vladimir Viktorovich Lunin (lawyer, private attorney) shared the fate of his father. V. I. Lunin's absentee election in Kuban as a member of the First State Duma allowed the family to return to Russia. B. V. Lunin, while still a high school student, joined the work of the circle of archeology lovers in the city of Pyatigorsk, conducted auxiliary work on the house-museum of M. Y. Lermontov, participated in archaeological surveys. After his family moved to Rostov-on-Don, he continued to actively participate in the scientific local history movement, attracting the attention and then receiving the energetic support of the outstanding Russian archaeologist V. A. Gorodtsov. Over time, B. V. Lunin gained a reputation as one of the founders of scientific and local history work on archeology, history and museum business in the North Caucasus, conducted excavations, published a number of books and pamphlets on the ancient monuments of the Don region and the Azov region. In 1941, with the beginning of the war, he was drafted into the Soviet Army, went from private to lieutenant colonel, and had a number of government awards. He was demobilized in 1953, serving in Central Asia, where even before demobilization he joined the scientific and local history movement, and after that he was hired at the Academy of Scienc ... Читать далее