Academic Degree: Doct. of Historical Sc.

Academic Rank: Professor

Position: Director

Affiliation: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS (St. Petersburg)

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Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

1983 — graduated from the Leningrad (now — St. Petersburg) State University, specialty ‘History of China’

1983–1986 — postgraduate courses, the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now — Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS)

1986–1992 — junior research associate, the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

1992–1995 — research associate

1995–1997 — senior research associate

1989–1995 — Head of Postgraduate Courses Department

1997–2003 — academic secretary

1995–2003 — academic secretary of the Thesis Board of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

2003 till present — director

Candidate of Sciences degree (1988, theme of degree work ‘”The Emperors” Rules (“Di Fan”) as a Source on History of Political Ideas of China at the Beginning of 7^th cent.’), Doctor of Sciences degree (2000, theme of degree work ‘The Theory of State Administration in Early-Tan China’)

Professor of the St. Petersburg State University

Key Disciplines Taught:

Research Interests: history, political ideology, management, administrative system and military policy of medieval China, Dunhuang studies, history of oriental studies

List of Most Essential Works:

Popova I. F. Brush and Calam. To 200^th Anniversary of the Collection of Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. The Exhibition Catalogue / curators Pritula A. D., Yampolskaya N. V., authors of the idea, scientific editors Popova I. V., Pritula A. D., Yampolskaya N. V. St. Petersburg, 2018.

Popova I. F. The Asiatic Museum — the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: The Guidebook / ed.-in-chief Popova I. F. Moscow, 2018. 895 p.

Popova I. F. The Gems of the Chinese Collections of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. St. Petersburg, 2018. 159 p.

Dungans: History and Culture: Russian Prerevolutionary Studies on Dungans / compil. By Madivan M. R., ed.-in-chief Zavyalova O. I., foreword by Popova I. F. Moscow, 2017. 335 p.

Popova I. F. The International Scientific Conference “Literary Heritage of Dunhuang. To 90^th anniversary of L. N. Menshikov (1926–2005) and L. I. Chuguevsky (1926–2002)” (St. Petersburg, 1–3 September 2016). Written Monuments of the East. Vol. 14. No. 2 (29). 2017. P. 111–118.

Dictionaries of the Kyahta Pigeon / transl. from Chinese, publ., transcription, research and appendixes by I. F. Popova and Takata Tokio. Moscow, 2017. 603 p.

Countries and Peoples of the East. Iss. 37. State in the East / ed. by I. F. Popova, I. V. Bogdanova. Moscow, 2017. 327 p.

History of China since Antiquity to the Beginning of 21^st cent. In 10 vol. / ed.-in-chief S. L. Tikhvinsky. Vol. III: Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tan (220–907) / eds-in-chief I. F. Popova, M. E. Kravtsova. Moscow, 2014. 991 p.

History of China since Antiquity to the Beginning of 21^st cent. In 10 vol. / ed.-in-chief S. L. Tikhvinsky. Vol. IV. The Period of Five Dynasties, Sun Empire, Liao State, Jin, Xi Xia (907–1279) / ed.-in-chief I. F. Popova. Мoscow, 2016. 942 p.

Popova I. [Review:] “Vtoroi” i “Tretii” al’bomy o. Iakinfa (N. Ya. Bichurina) [The “Second” and “Third” Albums of Fr. Iakinf (N. Ya. Bichurin)] / Introduction by Academician V. S. Miasnikov and O. V. Vassilieva. Publication by O. V. Vassilieva — St. Petersburg: National Library of Russia, 2012. — 56 pp. + 58 pp. of facsimiles (Nontraditional sources on the history of China during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), by Irina F. Popova // Written Monuments of the Orient. No. 1 (3). 2016. P. 113–114.

Segey Fedorovich Oldenburg, a Researcher and Enthusiast of Science / compil. and ed.-in-chief I. F. Popova. Moscow, 2016. 477 p.

Buddhist Manuscripts from Central Asia. The St. Petersburg Sanskrit Fragments. Vol. I / editors-in-chief: S. Karashima and M. I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya; foreword by I. F. Popova. Tokyo, 2015.

Popova I. A Dunhuang Document on the Division of Property from the Serindia Fund of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS // Written Monuments of the East. No. 1 (1), 2015. P. 4–13.

Countries and Peoples of the East. Iss. 36. Religions in the East / ed. by I. F. Popova, T. D. Skrynnikova. Moscow, 2015. 431 p.

Popova I. F. Teaching of Buddha in Russia: 250^th anniversary of Pandito Khambo-lama Institute / editorial board: Popova I. F. (chairman), Badmaev B. B., Uspensky V. L., Zorin A. V.(executive ed.), Sizova A. A. (secretary). St. Petersburg, 2015. 186 p.

 Popova I. Depictions of Tributaries of the August Qing 皇清職貢圖 and Hyacinth Bichurin’s First Album // East Asian Studies: Festschrift in Honor of the Retirement of Professor Takata Tokio. Kyoto: Rinsen Book Co., 2014. P. 401–415.

Popova I. F. The Formation of Chinese Lexicography in Russia. Countries and Peoples of the East. Iss. 35. Collections, Texts and Their “Biographies”. Moscow, 2014. P. 291–304.

Popova I. F. A Fragment of a Political Treatise in the Dunhuang Handbook DX-11656. Translation from Chinese, research and comment. by I. F. Popova. Written Monuments of the East. No. 2 (21). 2014. P. 41–55.

Popova I. F. [Review:] The Journal and Official Correspondence of Bernard Jean Bettelheim. Written Monuments of the East. No. 1 (20). 2014. P. 267–278.

Countries and Peoples of the East. Iss. 35. Collections, Texts and Their “Biographies” / ed. by I. F. Popova, T. D. Skrynnikova. Moscow, 2014. 439 p.

Tibetan Studies in St. Petersburg. The Collection of Papers. Iss. 1 / editorial board: Popova I. F. (chairman), Badmaev B. B., Zorin A. V.(executive ed.), Uspensky V. L. St. Petersburg, 2014. 200 p.