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vulytsia Yuriia Knorozova (Kharkiv)

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Yuri Knorozov Street.
Former vulytsia Akademika Shlikhtera.

Linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, Cavalier of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Mexico) and the Grand Gold Medal (Guatemala), Yuri Knorozov is famous by his decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.
He was born in a village (now a city) Pivdenne near Kharkiv.
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Coordinates:   50°2'33"N   36°19'34"E
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