Abstract
The biography and scientific career of the orientalist, specialist in ancient Egyptian law Isidor Mendelevch Lurie (1903‒1958) largely reflects the vicissitudes of the history of Russian science of the 1920s‒1950s. Eighteen documents from state Archives of Moscow and St. Petersburg are introduced into scientific circulation in the article. These documents allow in all details to recreate the system of institutional and personal relations that determined the activities of graduate students and young researchers in the USSR in the late 1920s ‒ 1930s. Reconstruction of the private and scientific biography of I.M. Lurie, analysis of the scientific and educational policy of the Soviet state will continue on the material of the post-war period.
Keywords
Ancient History, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian law, history of science, scientific policy, scientific archives.