Orbeli Joseph Abgarovich

(born 1887), assistant professor of the Petrograd University in the department of the Armenian and Georgian literature, Secretary of the East Branch of the Russian Archaeological Society. He studied at St. Petersburg University on the east and History and Philology. Takes an active part in the excavations at Ani (cm. II, 850). Its main works: "Asan Jalal, Prince Khachen" ( "Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences, 1909)," Bell with ornamental motifs of Ani "(" Notes of the Eastern Division of the Russian Archaeological Society, XX), "Bagavanskaya inscription 639 z. and other Armenian inscriptions ktitorskie VII century "(" Christ. Vost. ", . II), . number of articles on epigraphy (ibid.), . "Catalog Ani Museum of Antiquities" (Poti, . 1910), . "Inscriptions Marmashen" (Petrograd, . 1914), . "Inscriptions Mrena" (Petrograd, . 1916), . "Preliminary report on the trip in Asiatic Turkey in 1911 - 1912 gg." (Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences ", . 1912),
. A member of this dictionary.