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Jubilee of Dr I.Dunaevskaya Print E-mail
06/08/2009

On July 20, 2009, Dr Irina M. Dunaevskaya turned 90.  From 1957 to 1979, she worked as a researcher and senior researcher at our Institute that was then called the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studes.

She was born in Petrograd in 1919. When she was admiеted to the university she was lucky enough to be tuaght by the preeminent Assyriologust and linguist Prof Dr A.P.Riftin (1900—1945), who created the Department of Semitic languages and literatures at Leningrad University. Later she was also a disciple of one of the greatest Assyriologists of the 20th century, Dr I.M.Diakonoff (1915-99) and worked under his authority. Her major academic interest was in Hittie studies.She spent many years researching into the Hittite language spoken by inhabitants of North-Eastern Minor Asia from the third to the early second millenia BCE. Her studies resulted in more than 40 academic papers, including one monograph entitled The Language of the Hittite Characters [Язык хеттских иероглифов] (Moscow 1969). She also made a number of brilliant translations of academic and semi-popular books from European languages. 

Dr I.Dunaevskaya took an active part in World War 2, she faught in blockaded Leningrad, and then on the Belorussian and Baltic fronts. She was decorated with several military awards. At the moment, she is editing her war-tme diaries. We wish her to complete this work successfully and hope that her voice, so active and interested in life, will be with us as long as possible!

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