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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).
His main works are:
- Loginov A., Shelestin V. Court and punishment in the Mycenaean Greece and in the Hittite kingdom. Moscow: Academia, 2019 (in Russian).
- Shelestin V. The Foreign Policy of the Late Old Hittite Kingdom: the Case of Ammuna // Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Hittitology. Warsaw: Agade, 2014. P. 800–826.
- Shelestin V. The geography of Ammuna’s campaigns // Vestnik drevnej istorii – Journal of Ancient History. 2015, No. 4, P. 120–136 (in Russian).
- Shelestin V. Two Hittite systems of directions // Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology. 2016, Vol. 20 (2), P. 1067–1072 (in Russian).
- Shelestin V. On the origin of Küçükçekmece iron figurines // Anatolia antiqua. 2019. Vol. 27. P. 51–55.
His contribution to the project on Ancient Near Eastern Calendars at the St. Petersburg State University aims to understand the basic principles of Hittite calendar and temporal perception. This investigation is examining the features of a Hittite perception of time mostly from the textual point of view based on the festival texts and historical narrations in order to expose the underlying principles of Hittite temporal outlook. Such principles should help us to solve many problems concerning Hittite chronology.