| Publications: 1. "A Story of Yoisht Friyan". Introduction, Translation from Pahlavi and
Commentaries by A. Ambartsumian // St.Petersburg Journal
of Oriental Studies, volume 8, 1996, pp. 88-118 (Al’manakh
Peterburgskoye Vostokovedeniye, vypusk 8, Sankt-Peterburg,
1996, ss. 88-118). (to order please contact: PV
Centre)
2. “Horse, wild boar, hog, elephant,
camel, goat and date-tree in the Middle Iranian
mythological tradition (on materials of the Parthian
poems “A Memorial book of Zarer” and “Assyrian tree”)”
// The Animals and Plants in Mytho-Ritual Systems.
Materials of a Scientific Conference, October 1996, (Ministry
of Culture of Russian Federation, State Museum of the
History of Religion, Russian Ethnographic Museum), St.-Petersburg,
1996, pp. 125-128.
3. “A problem of the dating of the
first battle of the Kayanian Iranians with the Khyaonas (end
of VII BC - ?)” // The XIXth Academic conference on
historiography and source study of Asian and African
countries, St. Petersburg University, Dept. of Oriental
Studies, held on April 8-10, St. Petersburg University,
1997, pp. 3-9.
4. “Horse consecration among the
Ancient Iranians (on the materials of epic “Memorial of
Zarer”) // “Sandzeyev Readings-4”. Proceedings of
the All-Russian Conference (Ulan-Udeh, April, 1997;
Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddology and Tibetology,
of the Siberian Dept. of the Russian Academy of Sciences),
Ulan-Udeh (Buryatia), 1999, pp. 90-93.
5. “Some military realia after
materials of the earliest fragment of the Iranian epic (“Ayadgar
i Zareran” - “A Story of Zarer”)” // Military
Archaeology, Weaponry and Warfare in the Historical and
Social Perspective, Materials of the International
Conference, 2 - 5 September 1998, (The State Hermitage
Museum, Institute of the History of Material Culture of
the Russian Academy of Sciences) St. Petersburg, 1998, pp.
69-74.
6. “Some Notes about the cryptic Name
Centaur Piurida” // Acta Institutionis Orientalis, No 2
(7), Vol.4, St. Petersburg, 1998, pp. 91-119. (A study of
the one textological problem in Movses Khorenatsi’s “History
of Armenia”; a new corrected explain of the historical
etymology of gr. ÊÝíôáõñïé (Kentavroi, Kentavros), avest. Gandarewa and
old-ind. Gandharva, arm. Kundarv, pers. Kundrav; a study
of related myths and zoomorphic-mixanthropic tradition in
the Near East) (to order please
contact: Institutio Orientalis,
Oriental Institute Press).
7. (Hambartsoumian A.) On the Mysterious Name of
Centaur Piurid // Iran & Caucasus, Research Papers
from the Caucasian Centre of Iranian Studies, edited by
Garnik Asatrian, Vol. II, Yerevan, 1998. (to order,
please contact: International
Publications of Iranian Studies, Otto Harrassowitz
Verlag, Asien-Abteilung)
8. “Symbolical Meaning of Fravahar in
the Modern Zoroastrianism” // "Symbol in Religion",
6th St.Petersburg International Religion Readings (State
Museum of the History of Religion), October 1998, St.
Petersburg, 1998, pp. 84-87.
9. “Mission of Apostle St.
Bartholomew in Parthia According to the Armenian
Apocryphal Literature // “Byzantium and Christian
Orient”, Scientific conference in memory of A. V. Bank,
the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1999, pp. 9-14.
10. “Likings for Zoroastrianism at
the Samanid period: the Poet Daqîqî and the Epic Cycle
about Gushtasp // 1100th anivessary of the establishment
of the State of the Samanids, Materials of the
International Conference, 28-29 April, (Inter-Parliamentary
Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States,
Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tadjikistan,
Administration of St. Petersburg), Taurida Palace, St.
Petersburg, Collection of Articles Edited by E. Sh.
Rahmonov, St. Petersburg: Secretariat of the Counsil of
IPA-CIS, 1999, pp. 102-113.
11. Transmission of an Avestan Epic
into the Parthian and Middle Persian Literature - "Ayadgar-i-Zareran"
(Memorial of Zarer) (Brief abstract) // 2nd International
Avesta Conference, September 24-26, 1999, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. Avestan Literature, Teology & Praxis
from: -Y2K to +Y2K, s. l., 1999, p. 27. (2nd International Avesta Conference).
12. “Three Parthian Terms from “Ayadgar
i Zareran” // The Study of the Cultural Heritage of the
East. Cultural Traditions and Continuity in the
Development of Ancient Cultures and Civilizations.
Materials of an International Conference in Sankt-Petersburg
(November 23-25, 1999), Archaelogical Studies, Issue 61,
Sankt-Petersburg: Evropeisky Dom, 1999, pp. 6-13 (to
order please contact: Institute of the History of
Material Culture, Russian Archaeological Society: Oriental
Department).
13. (Ambartsumyan A. A.) "On the
problem of carmine from the point of view of entomologist
and philologist" // Tethys Entomological Research, V.
1, Almaty (Kazakhstan), 1999, pp. 47-58 (with R. V.
Yashenko: entomological variant of the article; to order
please contact: Tethys
Entomological Research).
14. "On the Terms related to the
Carmine Dye from the points of view of the Entomologist
and Philologist" // Acta Institutionis Orientalis,
No 1 (9), Vol. 5, St. Petersburg, 1999, pp. 55-77 (with R.
V. Yashchenko; revised philological variant of the
article; another title: The Carmine Dye: The Case of
Entomologist and Philologist) (A study of the Indo-European
roots of Kirmiz (Kermes, Cochenille, Carmine, Russian
"Cherv'" and "Chervets", Armenian
"Vordan Karmir", Hebrew "Karmil",
English "Worm" and "Scarlet", and so
on)) (to order please contact: Institutio Orientalis,
Oriental Institute Press).
15. "Newly Discovered Parable on Zarathushtra's
Laughter" // "Iran
News", Vol. VI, No. 1579, Sunday, May 21, Tehran (Iran),
2000, p. 10. (to read or order this brief article
from the site of the Iran News please click on: http://www.iran-news.com).
15. "A Newly Discovered Armenian Parable on
Zarathushtra's Laughter"
// Ushta, A Zoroastrian Studies Publication, Newsletter,
Vol. XXI, No. 2, June, Bombay, 2000, p. 3, 12.
17. "On the Character of the
Parthian Zoroastrianism (on some Parthian and Pahlavi
sources)" // "Turkmenistan Cultural Heritage (the
remote sources and modern perspectives)", Ashgabat -
St.-Petersburg: Evropeyskiy Dom, 2000, pp. 90-95 (English Summary).
18. "Historical
Persian Shiite Cemetery in St. Petersburg" // "Iran News", Vol. VI, No. 1703,
Monday, October 23, Tehran (Iran), 2000, p. 9. (to
read or order this brief article from the site of the
Iran News Corporation please click on: http://www.iran-news.com).
19. "Magian Sarastro (Zoroastre) in "The
Magic Flute" (Die Zauberflwte) by W. A. Mozart (Magic
Instruments, Zoroastrian Ordeals and Masonry)" //
Journal of Instrumental Studies, Volume 4 (Voprosy
Instrumentovedeniia, Vypusk 4), A Collection of Synopses
of the Fourth International Conference on Instrumental
Studies "Blagodatov Readings", (Ministry of
Culture of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Institute for the History of Arts), St.-Petersburg,
2000, pp. 47-51 (The
Synopsis in Russian).
20. Horse in Avesta and Pahlavi Literature // The role
of Ahalteke horse in the formation of world horse-breeding,
Materials for the international scientific conference, ed.
by V. M. Masson, Ashgabad, 2001, pp. 218-220.
21. "The Armenian Parable “Zoroaster’s
Laughter” and the Plot of Zoroaster’s Birth in the
Literary Traditions" // Iran and the Caucasus.
Research Papers from the Caucasian Centre of Iranian
Studies, edited by Garnik Asatrian, Vol. V, Yerevan, 2001;
(to order, please contact: International
Publications of Iranian Studies, exclusive
distribution by BRILL,
Leiden) (Etymology of Zarathushtra’s
name revised!!!).
22. Thrita and Avicenna: the Origin of Medicine in
Central Asia (Positive and Negative Aspects of the
Zoroastrian Tradition) (English Abstract) //
"The Great Legasy and Modern Civilization". Ñollection
of abstracts of the “2nd International Ibn Sino (Avicenna)
Readings”, September 13-15, 2001,
Ibn Sino Foundation, Tashkent-Bukhara (Uzbekistan),
2001, p. 14.
23. History of Zarathushtra and His Follwers According
to the Avesta: linguistic and contextual aspects //
Absrtacts of the papers of the International Symposium
“Avesta and World Civilization”, Dushanbeh (Tajikistan),
2001, pp. 109-116 (in Russian), pp. 9-16 (in Tajik).
24. “Non-Verbal Communications in Ancient Iranian Cultures (after examples from the Parthian and Middle Persian Texts) // Problems of Linguistics and Linguo-didactics in High School. Vol. 3. Proceedings of All-Russian Academic and Methodological Conference, 13-14 of June, 2002. Edited by O. N. Gronskaya (Military Medical Academy), Saint-Petersburg, 2002, pp. 80-87.
25. Category of Present and Past Tenses in Parthian Epic (on materials of the epic poem “Ayadgar-i Zareran”) // Problems of Linguistics and Linguo-didactics in High School. Vol. 3. Proceedings of All-Russian Academic and Methodological Conference, 13-14 of June, 2002. Edited by O. N. Gronskaya (Military Medical Academy), Saint-Petersburg, 2002, pp. 87-89.
26. The Problem of the Hyaona tribe according to
the Old Iranian and Middle Iranian Sources // Vestnik
vostochnogo instituta, Acta Institutionis Orientalis, No. 2(12), vol.
6, Saint-Petersburg, 2000 (published in 2002), pp. 3-24.(to order please
contact: Institutio Orientalis,
Oriental Institute Press).
27. On the Origin of the Family Name of Avicenna //
Vestnik vostochnogo instituta, Acta Institutionis Orientalis, No.
2(12), vol. 6, Saint-Petersburg, 2000 (published in 2002), pp. 24-31.(to order please
contact: Institutio Orientalis,
Oriental Institute Press). See also: On the etymology of Avicenna’s name //
New Trends in Linguistics and Teaching Methodology of Foreign
Languages. Proceedings of a Methodological Conference with
international participation, Saint-Petersburg, VITU, 2003, pp. 6-13.
28. The Hyaona as one of the Turanian tribes (erronously
printed by Iranian editors as ‘Huns, One of Turanian Tribes) //
International Seminar on “The Iranian World and Turan”, February
13-14, 2001, Program and Abstracts, Center for Documents and
Diplomatic History, Tehran, 2001 (in Persian and in English).
29. An Ethnonym "Hyaona" in
the Avesta (English Summary)
// Journal of the Oriental Branch of the Russian
Archaeological Society (ZVORAO), Vol. I, New Series, St.
Petersburg, 2001, pp. 37-77.(to order please contact: PV
Centre or the official distributors outside
Russia:
KUBON und SAGNER, E-mail:
Barbara.Alexandrova@kubon-sagner.de,
Buchexport-Import GmbH, Hessstr. 39/41. D-80798. Muenchen. Deutchland,
Tel.: (089) 54 218 108. Fax.: (089) 54 218 218;
OTTO
HARRASSOWITZ,
Taunusstr. 5. D-65183. Wiesbaden. Deutchland, E-mail: service@harrassowitz.de).
30. Farsi and Dari sections (more than 40 everyday phrases for each
language), in: The Business Translator. Business Words, Phrases &
Pronunciation Guides for Over 65 Languages, Edited by Dawn Montague, Aspatore Books,
2002, pp. 153-159, 173-179. (The Business
Translator features 350 business words and phrases in over 90 languages. The
book also features business customs and traditions in every country in the world.
A must have for the business person traveling overseas, or anyone doing business
with international business people here in the United States) (http://www.aspatore.com/storeother2.asp#translator)
31. Apocalyptic Tradition
According to the Middle Persian Text "Zand-i Bahman Yasn" //
300 years of Iranian Studies in Saint-Petersburg. Materials of the
International Conference, April 28-30, St. Petersburg University,
Saint-Petersburg, 2003, pp. 8-11 (http://orient.pu.ru/IRIconfE.html).
32. Words of the Iranian Origin in English //
New Trends in Linguistics and Teaching Methodology of Foreign
Languages. Proceedings of an International Conference. VITU.
Saint-Petersburg, 2004, pp. 5-20.
33. On Zarer's Name and "The Fortress of Zarer"
// Second Biennial Convention on Iranian Studies. Society, History and
Culture in the Persianate World. Association for the Study of
Persianate Societies, 2-5 April, 2004, Yerevan, Armenia. Abstracts.
Yerevan (Department of Iranian Studies, Yerevan State University.
Published by Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies), 2004, pp. 49-54.
In press:
1. "The Armenian Parable “Zoroaster’s
Laughter” and the Plot of Zoroaster’s Birth in the
Literary Traditions" // Proceedings of the "Armenia
and Christian Orient" International Conference, St.
Petersburg, 2001 (Russian version).
2. "The Problem of the Hyaona Tribe
in Avesta" // Proceedings of the International
Conference "Central Asian Cultural Complex",
Almaty, 2000.
3. "On the Etymology of Avicenna's Name" // Proceedings of the International Conference
"Central Asian Cultural Complex", Almaty, 2000.
4. “The structure of the “Memorial
List” of Avestan Fravardin Yasht (from the creation of
the world to the Frasho-kereti) // in press.
5. “The Chionites and Hephtalites
According to the Middle Persian Sources” // The XXI
Scientific conference on historiography and source study
of Asian and African countries, held on April 3-5, 2001,
Dept. of Oriental Studies, Section of Iran and
Afghanistan, St. Petersburg University, in press.
Unpublished:
“Ayadgar i Zareran”. Introduction,
transliteration, transcription, translation into Russian
and commentaries.
“Draxt i Asurig”. Introduction,
transliteration, transcription, translation into Russian
and commentaries.
“Abar madan i Wahram i Warzawand”,
A study of the Middle Persian poem.
“Sagestanian miracles of Zoroastrian
religion according to the Middle Persian tradition, with
a new complete transliteration, transcription,
translation and commentary of “Abdîh ud sahîgîh î Sîstân”.
“Arda-Viraz-Namag” (Introduction to
the study, transcription and translation of a fragment).
A Thesis of the 5th year student Arthur A. Ambartsumian (advisor
Prof. Ivan Steblin-Kamensky, opponent Prof. Mikhail
Bogolyubov; Leningrad State University, Faculty of
Oriental Languages, Dept. of Iranian Philology),
Leningrad, 1990.
Forthcoming:
“Avestan Spaeitita Razura “white
grove; white forest” (the problem of interpretation and
localization)”.
A Prayer of Darius the Great at Dawn
and Avestan "Hushbam".
From Kibiss to Nasir Khusraw: A Peripatetic Fable
about Eagle and the Arrow // Nasir Khusraw Conference ....
Other and Text-Books:
"Transporting Means", A Course-Book of Professional English
for the Cadets of the St. Petersburg Military Civil Engineering and
Technical University, St. Petersburg, 2003.
Conferences attended:
1. 1996 - Academic Conference “The
Animals and Plants in Mytho-Ritual Systems”, 29-31
October, (Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation,
State Museum of the History of Religion, Russian
Ethnographic Museum), St.-Petersburg.
2. 1997 - The XIXth Academic Conference
on Historiography and Source Study of Asian and African
Countries, 8-10 April, St. Petersburg University, Dept.
of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg University.
3. 1997 - All-Russian conference “Sandzeyev
Readings-4” (Actual problems of history, ethnography,
culture and language), 16 April, Buryatian Institute of
Social Sciences, Ulan-Udeh, Buryatia.
4. 1998 - The International Conference
“Military Archaeology, Weaponry and Warfare in the
Historical and Social Perspective”, 2-5 September, (The
State Hermitage Museum, Institute of the History of
Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences), The
Hermitage Theater, St. Petersburg.
5. 1998 - 6th St.Petersburg
International Religion Readings "Symbol in Religion",
13-15 October, (State Museum of the History of Religion),
St. Petersburg.
6. 1999 - The XXth Academic conference
on historiography and source study of Asian and African
countries, held on April 6-7, Dept. of Oriental Studies,
St. Petersburg University (Topic of the paper: “The
structure of the “Memorial List” of Avestan Fravardin
Yasht (from the creation of the world to the Frasho-kereti).
7. 1999 - International Academic
Conference, dedicated to the 1100th anivessary of the
formation of the State of the Samanids (Inter-Parliamentary
Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States,
Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tadjikistan,
Administration of St. Petersburg), 28 April, Taurida
Palace, St. Petersburg.
8. 1999 - Conference “Byzantium and
Christian Orient” in memory of Alisa Vladimirovna Bank,
19-20 May, the State Hermitage Museum, The Hermitage Hall,
St. Petersburg,.
9. 1999 - Second International Avesta
Conference, 24-26 September, Ramada Hotel, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.
10. 1999 - International Conference “The
Study of the Cultural Heritage of the East. Cultural
Traditions and Continuity in the Development of Ancient
Cultures and Civilizations”, 23-25 November, Institute
of the History of Material Culture (Archaeology), Oak
Hall, St. Petersburg.
11. 1999 - XXXII Academic session of
the Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg Branch),
6-8 December (Topic of the paper: "The Plot of
Zarathushtra’s birth in the literary traditions and the
problem of his name’s etymology"), Indian
Department, St. Petersburg..
12. 2000 - International Conference "Central
Asian Cultural Complex", 26-28 September, Soros
Foundation, Sanatorium and Hotel "Alatau",
Almaty, Kazakhstan.
13. 2000 - International Conference
"Turkmenistan Cultural Heritage (the remote sources
and modern perspectives)", 10-13 October, "Akaltyn
Plaza" Hotel, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Republic.
14. 2000 - Fourth International
Conference on Instrumental Studies "Blagodatov
Readings", (Ministry of Culture of the Russian
Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences), Institute for
the History of Arts, 4-7 December, Green Hall, St.-Petersburg.
15. 2001 - The XXI Academic conference
on historiography and source study of Asian and African
countries, held on April 3-5, Dept. of Oriental Studies,
Section of Iran and Afghanistan, St. Petersburg University.
16. 2003 - International Conference 300 Years of
Iranian Studies in Saint-Petersburg, April 28-30, Linguistics and
Literature Studies, Dept. of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg
University.
17. 2004 - Second Biennial Convention on Iranian
Studies. Society, History and Culture in the Persianate World.
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, 2-5 April, 2004,
Yerevan, Armenia. Department of Iranian Studies, Yerevan State
University - Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies.
Membership in professional
associations:
Oriental Branch of the Russian
Archaeological Society (1998), Iranian-Russian Cultural
Society (1998).
Consultations:
1. My transcriptions and translations
of the three fragments from "Ayâdgâr î Zarêrân",
"Draxt î Asûrîg", "Xusraw î Kawâdân
ud rêdag-ê", were published by my permission in
the article of N. E. Vassilieva: Vassilieva Nina (St.
Petersburg/Russia), Musical Terminology in Pahlavi
Writings in Comparison to Music-Archaeological Finds from
Ancient and Early Medieval Central Asia // Studien zur
Musikarchäologie II, Musikarchäologie früher
Metallzeiten, Music Archaeology of Early Metal Ages,
Vorträge des 9. Symposiums der International Study Group
on Music Archaeology im Kloster Michaelstein, 18.-24. May
1998, Papers from the 9th Symposium of the International
Study Group on Music Archaeology at Monastery
Michaelstein in Blankenburg (Germany), 18-24 May, 1998,
hrsg. Ellen Hickmann, Ingo Laufs, Ricardo Eichmann, In
memoriam Hans Hickmann (Deutsches archäologisches
Institut Orient-Abteilung, Orient-Archäologie, Band 7),
Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2000, pp. 83-86. Please note
that my transcriptions, translations and
some commentaries are printed in this article with several mistakes.
2. Some consultations on the Pahlavi
literary evidences were given to Dr. V. Nikonorov:
Nikonorov Valerii P. (St. Petersburg/Russia), The Use of
Musical Percussion Instruments in Ancient Eastern Warfare:
the Parthian and Middle Asian Evidence // Studien zur
Musikarchäologie II, ... Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie
Leidorf GmbH, 2000, pp. 71-81.
3. Some commentaries were given for the
edition of the Russian translation of “Strategica, (Strategemata)”
by Polyænus (Polyaenus), edited by A. Nefiodkin, St.
Petersburg, 2001, pp. 506-507.
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