Nikolai Mikhailovich Nikolsky (; 13 November 1877 – 19 November 1959) was a Russian and Soviet religious historian, orientalist and

biblical scholar Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with ''Bible'' referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the can ...

. He became a corresponding member of

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (un ...

in 1946.

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1877 births 1959 deaths 20th-century Russian historians Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Academic staff of Belarusian State University Academicians of the Byelorussian SSR Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Imperial Moscow University alumni Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1947–1950) Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Assyriologists Historians of the Russian Orthodox Church Hittitologists Researchers of Slavic religion Semiticists Russian biblical scholars Russian ethnographers Russian Marxist historians Russian orientalists Soviet ethnographers Soviet Marxist historians Soviet orientalists Soviet partisans {{USSR-scientist-stub