Victoria Kryukova

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.

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