Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky, also Piotrovskii was a Soviet Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied the ancient civilizations of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia. He is best known as a key figure in the study of the Urartian civilization of the southern Caucasus. From 1964 until his death, Piotrovsky was also Director of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, art historian, archaeologist
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- February 1, 1908, 1908
- Died
- October 15, 1990, 1990
