Leonid Alaev
{{Short description|Russian scientist (1932–2023)}}
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| birth_name = Leonid Borisovich Alaev
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|10|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|07|31|1932|10|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russia
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| education = Doctor of Historical Sciences
| alma_mater = MSU Faculty of History
Institute of Asian and African Countries
| occupation = Historian
| employer = Institute of Practical Oriental Studies
Institute of Asian and African Countries
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University
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Leonid Borisovich Alaev ({{langx|ru|Леонид Борисович Алаев}}; 20 October 1932 – 31 July 2023) was a Soviet and Russian historian and indologist,https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=36819498 Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences, principal researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations,{{Cite web|url=https://www.socionauki.ru/authors/alaev_l_b/|title=Алаев Л. Б.|website=www.socionauki.ru}} and honorary professor at the Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University.{{Cite web|url=https://ivran.ru/persons/AlayevLeonid|title=Сотрудники Института востоковедения РАН|website=ivran.ru}}
Alaev was the editor of Oriens (1988–1999).
Life and career
Leonid Borisovich Alaev was born on 20 October 1932.{{cite web |title=Leonid B. Alaev |url=https://ivran.ru/sites/74/files/interviusleonidomborisovichemalaevym.pdf |website=Ivran.ru |access-date=6 August 2023}} He graduated from the Faculty of History at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1954.{{Cite web|url=https://sibforum.sfu-kras.ru/node/417|title=Космос, война, Александр Невский — и это предмет для гордости? | Газета СФУ "Сибирский форум. Интеллектуальный диалог"}} Since 1956, he was working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1960, he defended his candidate's dissertation. In 1982, he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1986, he received the title of professor.
Alaev was the author of about 250 works. He published in the Great Russian Encyclopedia and the Cambridge Economic History of India.
His work has been reviewed by Alexander Gordon{{Cite journal|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/istoriya-mirovoy-indologii-v-sovremennoy-istoriografii|title=История мировой индологии в современной историографии|first=Гордон Александр|last=Владимирович|date=3 August 2020|journal=Социальные и гуманитарные науки. Отечественная и зарубежная литература. Сер. 9, Востоковедение и африканистика: Реферативный журнал|issue=3|pages=123–156|via=cyberleninka.ru}} and Gennady Drach.https://lk.ivran.ru/media/16149.pdf He was a friend of Leonid Vasilyev.{{cite web |title=НОВЕЙШАЯ ИСТОРИЯ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОЙ АЗИИ |url=https://www.kas.de/documents/252038/253252/7_dokument_dok_pdf_52310_6.pdf/95fe6dac-9648-3b20-57e9-faa44c9397b5?version=1.0&t=1539647537067 |website=Kas.de |access-date=6 August 2023}}
Leonid Alaev died in Moscow on 31 July 2023, at the age of 90.{{cite web |title=Алаев Леонид Борисович (20 октября 1932 г. – 31 июля 2023 г.) |url=https://ivran.ru/novosti?artid=212702 |website=Ivran.ru |access-date=6 August 2023}}
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