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Igor M. Diakonoff

Russian historian and linguist1914 to 1999

Wikidata names Alexander Pavlovich Riftin as doctoral advisor, lists 8 doctoral students, and lists 7 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught7

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

    Michael Heltzer

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

    Muhammad Dandamayev

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

    Tamaz Gamkrelidze

    born 1929
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Vladimir Yakobson

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Irina Kaneva

    born 1935
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

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    born 1935
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sergey Tokhtasyev

    born 1957

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 11 people: 11 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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