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Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky ((ロシア語:Бори́с Бори́сович Пиотро́вский); also written Piotrovskii; – 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.〔Wire report from the Associated Press. "(Boris B. Piotrovsky, Archeologist; Director of the Hermitage Was 82 )." ''The New York Times''. October 17, 1990. Retrieved July 21, 2008.〕 From 1964 until his death, Piotrovsky was also Director of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. ==Biography== Piotrovsky was born in Saint Petersburg in 1908. He specialized in the history and archaeology of the Caucasus region and beginning in the 1930s, he began to acquaint himself with Urartian civilization. He was the head of 1939 excavations that uncovered the Urartian fortress of Teishebaini in Armenia (known in Armenian as ''Karmir Blur'', or Red Hill). Evidence found there has been key in understanding the Urartian civilization. Piotrovsky lead further excavations in Armenia in the ancient settlements of Tsovinar, Redkig-lager, Vanadzor (formerly Kirovakan) and Aygevan until 1971.〔 Areshyan, Gregory. ''«Պիոտրովսկի»'' (Piotrovsky). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. ix. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1983, p. 302.〕 These were not Piotrovsky's sole contributions in the archaeological field, however. Piotrovsky worked elsewhere in the Caucasus, especially on the Scythian culture. In 1961, he was placed at the head of an expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences to study Nubian monuments in Egypt.〔The State Hermitage Museum. (The Hermitage Readings in memory of Boris Piotrovsky (1908 - 1990) ). Accessed July 22, 2008.〕 He also spent 26 years as Director of the Hermitage Museum, which has been run by his son Mikhail thereafter. The Hermitage holds an annual conference in his honor. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Leningrad 1990 at the age of 82.〔
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