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Boris Piotrovsky
Boris Piotrovsky was a Soviet archaeologist and orientalist and the leading scholar of Urartu. From 1939 he directed the excavations at Karmir Blur near Yerevan, which revealed the Urartian fortress of Teishebaini with its storerooms, weapons and inscriptions, and his books established Urartian studies. From 1964 until his death he was director of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
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