Nikolai Andreevich Kislyakov (1901–1973) was a Soviet ethnologist and who specialised in cultures of the Near

Near East

The Near East is a geographical term that covers different countries for geographers, archeologists, and historians, on the one hand, and for political scientists, economists, and journalists, on the other...

 and Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

 and Western Central Asia, particularly Persian and Tajik).

In 1937 he became head of the Department of Europe, Caucasus and Western Central Asia in the Museum of Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnography, part of the Institute of Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnography

Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography

The Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography or N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology is a Russian institute of research, specializing in ethnographic studies of cultural and physical anthropology...

Publications

• Sketches on Karoteghin History Stalinabad, 1954