Background
KYUNER, Nikolay was born on September 25, 1877 in Tiflis.
KYUNER, Nikolay was born on September 25, 1877 in Tiflis.
1900 graduate Oriental Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1902 professor, Oriental Institute (from 1920 Far Eastern University), Vladivostok. 1909 defended master’s thesis on Tibet. From 1925 professor, Leningrad University.
1925-1928 also taught at Leningrad Oriental Institute. From 1932 senior associate, then head, East and Southeast Asian Section, Institute of Ethnography, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Wrote over 300 works on the history, ethnography, geography and culture of China, Japan and of Korea.
Also translated classic and modem writings on source-research and compiled bibliographies.