Academic Ancestry

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Boris Porshnev

Russian historian1905 to 1972

Wikidata names Sergey Piontkovsky, Viacheslav Volgin, and Vladimir Nevsky as doctoral advisors, lists 3 doctoral students, names Viacheslav Volgin as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Anatoly Ado

    born 1928
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Gennady Kucherenko

    born 1932

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 12 people: 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.