Russia 2022,Yuri Knorozov,founder of Soviet school of Maya studies,Historian **

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2022

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Russia 2022,Yuri Knorozov,

founder of the Soviet school of Maya studies,
Scientist, Historian, Ethnographer, VF MNH**

SK # 2990. 100th Birth Anniversary of Yuri Knorozov (1922-1999), scientist, historian, ethnographer,
founder of the Soviet school of Maya studies.

Yuri Knorozov (1922-1999) was a historian and ethnographer, a linguist and epigraphist, a translator,
the founder of the Soviet school of the Maya language studies.

Among the works of the scientists, we can highlight the following:
his article The System of Writing of the Ancient Maya and the translation of The Yucatan Affair (1955), monograph The Writing of the Maya Indians with a dictionary and catalog of symbols (540 items) (1963), Maya Hieroglyphic Codices (translation and study of all survived manuscripts) (1975).

A group of researchers headed by Yuri Knorozov over the course of the 1950s till the 1980s carried out the deciphering of the writing of Easter Island and the Indus Valley writing. In the 1980s, he visited the Kuril Islands several times, trying to solve the Ainu problem and its relationship with the peopling of America by ancestors of the Indians.

Yuri Knorozov was granted the Medal for Labor Valor (1967), the USSR State Prize (1977), the Big Gold Medal of the President of Guatemala (1990), and the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Fourth Class (1994). He was an honorary member of the Madrid Society for Mayan Studies and the National Geographic Society of the USA.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Yuri Knorozov against the background of Mayan hieroglyphic codices.

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Sk # 2990. 100 лет со дня рождения Ю.В. Кнорозова (1922–1999), учёного, историка, этнографа,
основателя советской школы майянистики.

Юрий Валентинович Кнорозов (1922–1999) &mdash историк, этнограф, лингвист и эпиграфист, переводчик, основатель советской школы майянистики.

Среди трудов учёного можно выделить следующие: статью «Система письма древних майя» и перевод «Сообщения о делах в Юкатане» (1955), монографию «Письменность индейцев майя» со словарём и каталогом знаков (540 единиц) (1963), «Иероглифические рукописи майя» (перевод и исследование всех уцелевших рукописей) (1975).

Группа исследователей подруководством Ю.В. Кнорозова на протяжении 1950–1980-х гг. осуществляла дешифровку письменности острова Пасхи и письменности долины Инда. В 1980-е гг. он несколько раз посещал Курильские острова, пытаясь решить айнскую проблему и её связь с заселением Америки предками индейцев.

Удостоен медали «За трудовое отличие» (1967), Государственной премии СССР (1977), Большой золотой медали президента Гватемалы (1990), ордена Ацтекского орла iv степени (1994). Являлся почётным членом Мадридского общества по изучению майя и Национального географического общества США.

На почтовой марке изображён портрет Ю.В. Кнорозова на фоне иероглифических рукописей майя.

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