Natalya Romanovna Guseva
Natalya Romanovna Guseva | |
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Наталья Романовна Гусева | |
| Born | Natalya Romanovna Chetyrkina March 21, 1914 |
| Died | April 21, 2010 (aged 96) |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire Soviet Union Russia |
| Occupation(s) | Ethnographer Historian Indologist |
| Known for | Research on the ethnography and religions of peoples of India |
| Spouse(s) | V. N. Gusev (1st) Svyatoslav Igorevich Potabenko (2nd) |
| Awards | Jawaharlal Nehru Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Doctor in Historical Sciences |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
| Thesis | Этнический состав населения Южной Индии (Candidate of Sciences) Индуизм: История формирования. Культовая практика (Doctor of Sciences) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ethnography History Indology |
| Institutions | Former "Senior Scientific Worker", Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
| Main interests | History and ethnography of the peoples of India |
Natalya Romanovna Guseva (Russian: Наталья Романовна Гусева, romanized: Natalya Romanovna Guseva; March 21, 1914 – April 21, 2010) was a Russian ethnographer, historian, Indologist and writer.
Born at a village in the Kiev Governorate, she did her Candidate of Sciences and Doctor of Sciences from the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1951 and 1978, respectively. She worked at the Institute of Ethnography from 1952 until her retirement in 1998, however from 1963 to 1964, she had worked at the House of Soviet Culture in Delhi. She died at the age of 96 years.