Vorobyov, Pavel Ivanovich

Born in St. Petersburg . In 1915 he graduated from the Petrograd University , faculty of Oriental languages. He studied Mongolian and Chinese.

In 1921 - managing director of the Central Institute of Living Oriental Languages , since May 1922 assistant to the rector, since 1923, after the departure of V. L. Kotvich , rector. In 1926-1930 in parallel, the director of the Russian Museum , from 1924 to 1930 he taught at the Leningrad State University ^[1] , since 1924, an employee of the Scientific Research Institute of Comparative History of Literature and Languages ​​of West and East.

Since March 1917, a member of the RCP (b). A member of the Leningrad city committee of the CPSU (b), in 1926 he voted against G. E. Zinoviev (a Moscow friend warned of upcoming changes) in the regional committee elections, was expelled from the party, but literally a few days later, when the complete victory of JV Stalin was determined , restored and strongly encouraged.

In 1932 he left for Moscow, where he headed the State Historical Museum .

Since 1934, again in Leningrad, he worked as director of the Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR , deputy director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, professor of Leningrad State University .

Forced, due to party discipline, to participate in various events on the “Bolshevization of the Academy of Sciences” (for example, in 1929 a member of the “Figatner Commission” that carried out “cleaning” of academic institutions in Leningrad), according to the memoirs of his contemporaries, he remained a decent person. He wrote a little, was more engaged in organizational, pedagogical and publishing work ^[2] .

In 1936 he was invited to the post of adviser to the Scientific Committee under the Government of the MPR . Invoked from Mongolia in 1937, ostensibly to discuss the question of opening a university in Ulan Bator. Arrested on August 11 (or September ^[3] ) on charges of art. 56-6, 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“resident of Japanese intelligence”, A. N. Samoilovich was among his “agents”). On November 19, 1937, the Commission of the NKVD and the Prosecutor of the USSR sentenced to capital punishment. Shot in Leningrad on November 24, 1937 ^[4] . Rehabilitated in 1957.

1. Beijing National University // East. 1924. Book. 4, pp. 171-172.
2. From the life of China // East. 1924. Book. 4, pp. 172-173.
3. Financial issues of modern China // New East. 1924. No. 5. P. 144-155.
4. (rec. :) Jiang-Gan-hu Xin-o-u-ji: (Diary of a trip to a new Russia) / Ed. Shang-u-yin-shu-guan. Shanghai, 1923 // New East. 1924. No. 5. P. 416-417.
5. Leningrad Institute of Living Oriental Languages ​​// New East. 1924. No. 5. P. 461-462.
6. Chronicle of Oriental Studies in Leningrad // New East. 1924. No. 5. P. 463 et seq.
7. New data on the origin and development of the Manchu script // Notes of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1935.V. 5.P. 115-132.
8. On the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the 17th century // Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1936.V. 17. S. 167—198.
9. Expedition to Tsagan-Bogdo // Modern Mongolia. 1937. No. 4. P. 85-92; No. 5. P. 85-94 (shared with A. D. Simukov).

• Reshetov A.M. Pavel Ivanovich Vorobev: the fate of man and scientist: On the centenary of his birth // Suomalais-ugrilaisen seuran Aikakauskirja: Journal de la Societe finno-ougrienne. Helsinki, 1995. Vol. 86. P. 167-185.