Yuri Bregel was born in the U.S.S.R., and studied in the Oriental Faculty of the University of St. Petersburg (then Leningrad State University). This was the same institution which produced the great Vasily Bartold, and Bregel proved a more than worthy successor to this tradition of rigorous scholarship in the Islamic History of Central Asia. In 1974 he defected to the United States, … Wikipedia
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