Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
Toporov authored more than 1500 works, including Akhmatova and Dante (1972), Towards the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Rite (1982), Aeneas: a Manitoba of Destiny (1993), Myth. Rite. Symbol. Image (1995), Holiness and Saints in the Russian Spiritual Culture (1998), and St. Petersburg Text of Russian Literature (2003). He translated the Dhammapada into Russian and supervised the ongoing edition of the most complete vocabulary of the Prussian language to date (5 volumes).
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Latvian Academy of Sciences]
He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and many other scholarly societies.