Krachkovsky I.Y., (1883-1951), orientalist

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KRACHKOVSKY Ignaty Yulianovich (1883-1951, Leningrad), orientalist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1921) and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925). Graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the University of St. Petersburg in 1905, assuming a teaching position there in 1910, and being promoted professor in 1918, and to the Chair of Arabian Studies at the Oriental Faculty of the Leningrad State University in 1944-51. He also worked as a professor at many other educational institutions. In 1941-42, he was President Plenipotentiary of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, chairing the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Commission on the Administration of Leningrad Scientific Institutions. His major works focus on Arabian history and culture, Russian translation of the Koran, as well as his commentary on it. His book On Arabian Manuscripts was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1951 (posthumously). He founded the academic arab studies. From the 1920s to the early 1950s, he lived at the House of Academics (1/2 Leytenanta Schmidta Embankment; memorial plaque). He was buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Долинина А. А. Невольник долга. СПб., 1994.

A. A. Kononov. Krachkovsky Ignaty Yulianovich
Leitenanta Schmidta Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/2
Долинина А. А. Невольник долга. СПб., 1994 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Academy House
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis