NATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHERS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS. 20TH CENTURY

=== '''{{birth-date|1893}} (?), Sosnitsa, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire — {{death-date|1968}}, Frunze, Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR''' ===

'''''Biography, education, career:''''' 

Zalman Amitin-Shapiro studied Middle Asian Jews, the culture of small peoples of Central Asia (the Dungans, in particular); was keen on historiography and bibliography of Kyrgyz studies; was one of the first to study the history of Jews in Xinjiang.

'''''Areas of expertise:'''''

[[Category:History and ethnography of the peoples of Central Asia]] [[:Category:History and ethnography of the peoples of Central Asia|History and ethnography of the peoples of Central Asia]]; [[Category:Jewish studies]] [[:Category:Jewish studies|Jewish studies]]; [[Category:Historiography, Source studies and Methodology of Ethnography]] [[:Category:Historiography, Source studies and Methodology of Ethnography|Historiography, Source studies and Methodology of Ethnography]]; [[Category:Ethnogeography]] [[:Category:Ethnogeography|Ethnogeography]]

'''''Major scientific achievements:'''''
 
Author of over 800 scientific papers (a total of around 300 publication base sheets), 60 of which were published, including 19 monographs.

'''''Membership in academic organizations and unions:''''' 

Full Member of the USSR Geographical Society (from 1924), one of the founders of its Kyrgyz branch (1947).

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