Iranian studies are carried on at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow and at its Leningrad affiliate; at the institutes of ethnography, philosophy, world economics and international relations, world literature, and linguistic studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences; at the Oriental institutes of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Tadzhikistan, and Turkmenia; at the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University; in the department of Oriental studies at Leningrad State University; and in the universities of Baku, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Ashkhabad, and Kazan. Problems of contemporary Iranian studies are treated in the Narody Azii i Afriki, Aziia i Afrika segodnia, and several other journals.
Iranian studies in Iran are conducted by Cultural Council, the Iranian Academy (Farhangestan), the Research Foundation for Iranian Culture (Bonyad-e farhang-e Iran), and various universities, museums, and other scholarly establishments. In other Eastern countries, the universities of Kabul, Istanbul, Ankara, and Delhi and the Historical Society of Afghanistan, the Turkish Historical Society, the Asiatic Society of Bombay, and the Asiatic Society (in Calcutta) deal with Iranian studies. In European countries, the universities of Cambridge, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague, and Warsaw, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (Great Britain), the Franco-Iranian Institute (Paris and Shiraz), the Oriental Studies Institute (Italy), the Indo-Iranian Institute (Norway), the Institute of Iranian and Caucasian Languages (East Germany), and the Seminar on Indology and Iranian Studies (West Germany) treat the discipline; in the USA, Iranian studies programs exist at Michigan, California, Harvard, Columbia, and other universities.
Soviet Studies of Iran and Russian Notions of Persia
