Metadata: S. E. Malov
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- www.ranar.spb.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1079
- Title:
- S. E. Malov
- Title (official language):
- Малов С. Е.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Malov, Sergei Efimovich
- Date(s):
- 1883/1971
- Language:
- Russian
- Arabic
- German
- Turkish
- Tatar
- Uighur; Uyghur
- French
- English
- Extent:
- 842 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains S. E. Malov’s scholarly works (1902-57); his personal documents and biographical materials (1899-1957); correspondence (1903-68); and scholarly works of other persons, and newspaper clippings (1893-1957). Pertaining to Jewish history and culture are (ops. 1 and 3) a lecture summary titled “The Khazars”, which offers support for Judeo-Khazar parallels via information provided by Abu Ishaq Al-Istakhri and Ibn Rustah (undated); bibliographic notes on the Karaite language (undated); bibliographies (on cards) on Christianity, Islam, Judaism and paganism, presumably compiled by S. E. Malov’s father S. E. Malov, including “On the influence of Jewry on the Chuvash: Attempts to explain certain Chuvash words” (1882); reviews of certain works: A. I. Svetlakov, A History of Judaism in Arabia and its Influence on the Teachings of the Koran (Kazan’, 1875); Ia. A. Bogordoskii, Jewish Kings (Kazan’, 1884); V. P. Sokolov, Circumcision among the Jews (Kazan’, 1892); F. Arfaksadov, The Jerusalem Sanhedrin (Kazan’, 1903); On the Mysterious Book of Galliuc: (“Against the Muhammadans and Jews”) (1893); and S. E. Malov, “On the Superiority of Moses to All Prophets (Biblical Exegetical Study against Jews)”, published in the Kazan’ Diocese News (no. 6 and 7, 1886), on a report at a meeting of the Imperial Archaeological Society on a Jewish coin (1909); etc.; and the autograph manuscript of a work by D. A. Khvol’son titled Syriac-Turkic Nestorian Tombstones of the 13th and 14th c. Discovered in the Semirech’e Region (St. Petersburg, 1895). The fonds also includes letters to S. E. Malov from S. M. Abramson (1926-50), I. M. Kaufman (1940), L. Ia. Shternberg (1926), and others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Sergei Efimovich Malov (1880-1957) was a linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, Turkologist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Distinguished Scientist of the Kazakh SSR. Upon graduating from secondary school [gimnaziia], religious academy, seminary and the Kazan’ Theological Academy, where he studied Tatar and Arabic, Tatar ethnography and Islamic studies, in 1904 he entered and in 1909 graduated from the Oriental studies department of St. Petersburg University with a specialisation in Arabic-Persian-Turkic studies. In 1908, he took part in an expedition to the Tomsk and Enisei provinces to study the language of the Tatars and Shorians. In 1909, he was sent by the Committee to Study Central and East Asia to western and central China to study the languages of Turkic peoples (in particular, Sarig Uighurs, Lobnortsy and Salars). Upon passing his exam to receive his master’s degree in Turkish literature in 1916, he departed for Kazan’, where until 1922 he worked as a teacher and director of the Numismatics Office of Kazan’ University and also worked with the Northeastern Archeological and Ethnographic Institute, the East-Tatar Academy and the Musical Ethnography Research Association of the Oriental Conservatory and the Oriental Pedagogy Institute. In 1928-30, he was a research fellow of the Turkic Studies Office of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1929-30 of the Asiatic Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1931-33 he was librarian of the State Public Library. From 1935 to 1957, he served as senior research specialist of the Institute of Language and Thinking of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1935, he received his doctorate in linguistics (on the basis of his scholarly record) and in 1939 became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was the author of monographs on the Uyghur and Lobnor languages and the language of the Yellow Uighurs, as well as several articles on modern languages and dialects of the Turkic peoples of Siberia, the Volga region, Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
The archive of the Academy of Sciences was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L L Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th to 20th centuries, separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th century) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803) as well as archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million items.
- Access points: locations:
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Khvol’son, D.
- Malov, S E
- Shternberg, L. Ia.
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish languages
- Khazars
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises five series arranged according to the structural-chronological and thematic-chronological principles, and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
