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Alexandra V. Mironova, PhD in Art Criticism, Egyptologist
Victoria Kryukova graduated from the Faculty of Asian and African Studies (the Department of History of the Near and Middle East Countries), St Petersburg State University, in 1991 (with honors). She received her PhD in history in 1996 from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, with the thesis “Ritual Purity in Zoroastrianism and Islam”. She worked as a researcher at the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg (1994-2000). From 2001 to the present, she works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Department of South and South-Western Asia). Her research interests include ancient Iranian mythology and ritual, Zoroastrianism, traditional culture of Iranian peoples.
Vladimir Shelestin was born in 1988, graduated in 2009 from the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and received his PhD in world history in 2014 at the Institute of General World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). He worked in 2015–2016 at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, and at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations – Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey). He was visiting researcher in 2017 at the British Institute at Ankara and at the Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (Istanbul, Turkey). He works on the problems of Hittite history, paleography, historical geography and chronology in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2016. He gave the talks at 8th, 9th and 10th International Congresses of Hittitology (Warsaw, 2011; Çorum, 2014; Chicago, 2017) and at 55th, 57th, 59th and 60th Rencontres Internationales Assyriologiques (Paris, 2009; Rome, 2011; Ghent, 2013; Paris, 2019).
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