Manvel Arsenovich Gasratjan (also Gasratian) (russian: Манвел Арсенович Гасратян) was a Russian historian, born in 1924 who died in 2007. He was a renowned

Turkologist Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative con ...

and Kurdologist at the

Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (russian: Институт востоковедения Российской Академии Наук), formerly Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, ...

(Institút vostokovédenija Rossíjskoj akadémii naúk) in Moscow, where he established the Group of Kurdologists in 1979. According to WorldCat, he has written at least 8 academic books on Turkish and Kurdish history held in major U.S. libraries.

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1924 births 20th-century Russian historians Historians of Central Asia 2007 deaths Soviet historians {{Russia-historian-stub