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Lev Gumilev
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Soviet academic (1912-1992)
Lev Gumilev was a Soviet scholar who developed influential theories about how geographical and climatic factors shape the rise and fall of civilizations and ethnic groups. His work remains significant because it shaped debates about history, ethnicity, and culture, though his ideas have been both celebrated and criticized by modern scholars.
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- 1
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Russia
- Active from
- 1886-04-03
- Active to
- 1921-08
Discography
- Лето2021
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5 total works indexed
- Thought and language.
· 1962 · cited 6,792x
- Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
· 1997 · cited 6,229x
- A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?
· 2011 · cited 6,042x
- Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases
· 1999 · cited 4,928x
- Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation
· 2019 · cited 3,882x
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Key facts
- Born
- 1 October [ O.S. 18 September ] 1912, Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- 15 June 1992 (1992-06-15) (aged 79), Saint Petersburg , Russia
- Doctoral advisor
- Nikolai Kuehner
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Russian philosophy
- School
- Eurasianism
- Institutions
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Doctoral students
- Gelian Prokhorov
- Main interests
- Philosophy of history , history , ethnology , turkology , cultural studies , geopolitics , religious studies
- Notable ideas
- Eurasianism , passionarity
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Encyclopedic overview
Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism.
Life
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