Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (died 2013)

Yevgeny Kychanov

Soviet-Russian orientalist (1932–2013)

Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov was a Soviet-Russian orientalist, an expert on the Tangut people and their mediaeval Xi Xia Empire. From 1997 to 2003 he served as the director of the Saint Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.