Background
Mikhail Pikulin was born on September 16, 1905 in Ostrogozhsk in the times of the Russian Empire (nowadays Russian Federation).
Mikhail Pikulin was born on September 16, 1905 in Ostrogozhsk in the times of the Russian Empire (nowadays Russian Federation).
He graduated from the Leningrad Oriental Institute in 1933 and from the Moscow Military Institute of Foreign Languages in 1951.
He was a party worker in 1925-1929 in Kharkov, Kamenets-Podolsky, Voronezh, Dushanbe. He worked in Iran, Afghanistan, China in 1933-1941, was a member of the Great Patriotic War. He taught at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Central Asian State University in Tashkent since 1948, had been a head of the Department of History, Economics and Culture of the Countries of Foreign Oriental since 1952. In 1952-1971 he was a Deputy Director for Science at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 25th Congress of Orientalists in 1960. Pikulin became Doctor of Historical Sciences in 1961 and Professor in 1962.
Pikulin was a specialist in the history and ethnography of Afghanistan. His main works are “Afghanistan: Outline of Economy” (Tashkent, 1956); “Baluchi: Outline of History and Ethnography” (Tashkent, 1959); “The development of the national economy and culture of Afghanistan” (Tashkent, 1961); “Brahui” (Moscow, 1967); “The Afghanistan industry and working class” (Tashkent, 1984, in collaboration with R. Rashidov).
