Irina Feodorova

Irina Konstantinovna Feodorova (28 November 1931, Leningrad, USSR – 7 December 2010, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet historian. Her field of expertise was the ethnography, culture, folklore and language of the people of East Polynesia. Feodorova was doctor of historical sciences and a leading scientist of the Department of Australia, Oceania and Indonesia at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian Academy of Science) at the Kunstkamera, St. Petersberg, the first Russian museum that was named after Peter the Great. In 1981, Feodorova was given the honour of being named N. N. Miklouho-Maclay Laureate of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Science.

Irina Konstantinovna Feodorova
Ирина Константиновна Фёдорова
Irina Fedorova, 1956.
Graduated at Leningrad State University
(Philology faculty)
Born(1931-11-28)28 November 1931
Leningrad, USSR
Died7 December 2010(2010-12-07) (aged 79)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
NationalityRussian
Alma materLeningrad State University
Known fordecipherment of rongorongo
AwardsPremium after N.N.Miklouho-Macklay of Academy of Science of the USSR (1981)
Premium of Presidium of the Russian Academy of Science (1995)
Scientific career
Fieldshistory, ethnography, epigraphy, decipherment
InstitutionsMuseum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian Academy of Science) named after Peter The Great (Kunstkamera) St. Petersburg
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