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Vyacheslav Ivanov was born in 1929 . His father was Vsevolod Ivanov , one of the most prominent Soviet writers. His mother was an actress who worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold . His childhood was clouded by disease and war, which he spent in Tashkent evacuation.

Ivanov was educated at the Moscow University and worked there until 1958 , when he was fired on account of his sympathy with Boris Pasternak and Roman Jacobson . By that time, he had made some important contributions to Indo-European Studies and became one of the leading authorities on Hittite Language .

During the early 1960s, Ivanov was one of the first Soviet scholars to take a keen interest in and develop Semiotics . He worked with Vladimir Toporov on several linguistic monographs, including an outline of Sanskrit . In 1962 he joined Toporov and Yuri Lotman in establishing the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.

In the 1980s Ivanov worked with Tamaz Gamkrelidze on a new theory of Indo-European migrations, which was most recently advocated by them in ''Indo-European and Indo-Europeans'' (1995). He led the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature between 1989 and 1993 and held a seat in the Supreme Soviet . Simultaneously, he established the Institute of World Culture and held a chair in Theory and History of World Culture at the Moscow University.

Since the late 1990s Ivanov shares his time between Moscow and Los Angeles , where he delivers courses at the University Of California . He also worked as a professor in the Stanford University and the Yale University .

Apart from his scholarly pursuits, Ivanov writes poetry. He also published several books of memoirs, including two on his acquaintance with Pasternak and Akhmatova .