Lev Gumilev

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Lev Gumilev
Лев Гумилёв
Gumilev in 1934
Born	1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	15 June 1992(1992-06-15) (aged 79) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Awards	Order of the Patriotic War Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Russian philosophy
School	Eurasianism
Institutions	Saint Petersburg State University
Doctoral advisor	Nikolai Kuehner
Doctoral students	Gelian Prokhorov
Main interests	Philosophy of history, history, ethnology, turkology, cultural studies, geopolitics, religious studies
Notable ideas	Eurasianism, passionarity

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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism. According to geographer Mark Bassin, Lev Gumilev, whose books have now sold millions of copies, can be compared in terms of influence to Herodotus, Karl Marx, Oswald Spengler or Albert Einstein.^[1]