Гирфанова, Альбина Хакимовна, Albina Hakimovna Girfanova (born in Weimar, GDR, on February 1st, 1957, died on February 2nd, 2018), scholar of Albanian, Balkan and Manju-Tungus studies, teacher at the philological faculty of St. Petersburg State University.
PIAC Participation:
- 46th Meeting, 2003 (together with Nikolay L. Sukhachev): The influence of Turkic languages and culture on the Balkan region
- 49th Meeting, 2006: (together with Nikolay L. Sukhachev) V. K. Arsenyev as a Researcher of the Udeghe and Orochi (south-tungus ethnic groups)
- 50th Meeting, 2007
- 51st Meeting, 2008: “V.K. Arsenyev – An Outstanding Traveller, Scholar and Author“
- 52nd Meeting, 2009: “Myth and mythology in the life of the Udeghe (and other Tungus-Manchu peoples of the Amur region)”
- 53rd Meeting, 2010: “Linguistic and Ethnographic Materials of E.R. Schneider in Archives of St. Petersburg”
- 54th Meeting, 2011: “The Udeghe Marriage Rite”
- 55th Meeting, 2012 (together with Nikolai Sukhachev): “Turkish Military and Administrative Vocabulary for Balkan Realities“
- 56th Meeting, 2013: “The Gender Features of the Kinship System and Terminology Among the Udeghe”
- 57th Meeting, 2014: (together with Nikolai Sukhachev) “Сontroversial Aspects of Historical Lexicology and Etymological Reconstruction (The complexity and multiaspectuality)“