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Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) on June 21, 1976.
Education:
1995–2001 — St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (ETU, formerly LEEI), Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (2001).
Specialization: Computer engineering, computer platforms, systems and networks.
Diploma with honors.
2004–2006 — Oriental Institute (St. Petersburg), Department of Japanese Studies.
Specialization: Japanese studies (Japan and Japanese language).
Academic positions at the IOM RAS:
On September 26, 2005, joined the staff of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since July 1, 2009 — Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences) as an assistant researcher in the Sector of Far Eastern Studies.
From September 26, 2005 to December 31, 2008 — Assistant Researcher, Sector of Far Eastern Studies, St. Petersburg Branch of the IOS RAS.
From January 1, 2009 to June 2, 2013 — Junior Researcher, Sector of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS (since April 1, 2010 — Department of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS).
From June 3, 2013 to October 6, 2013 — Acting Researcher, Department of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS.
From October 7, 2013 to July 2, 2023 — Researcher, Department of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS.
From July 3, 2023 to July 7, 2025 — Researcher, Serindia Laboratory, IOM RAS.
From July 8, 2025 to June 1, 2026 — Researcher, Department of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS.
Projects and activities:
In 2006–2017 — Participant in the IDP (International Dunhuang Project, 國際敦煌項目) on behalf of the IOM RAS. The project aimed to create a database and digitize manuscript collections from Dunhuang and other archaeological sites along the Silk Road.
In 2007–2009 — Participated in the inventory and cataloging of Japanese manuscripts, block-prints, and old printed books from the collection of the IOM RAS (jointly with Dr. Karine Marandjan and Dr. Alexander Kabanov). More than 1,200 items were inventoried.
In 2009–2011 — Participant in the project “Preservation through digitisation of the Tangut collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences” on behalf of the IOM RAS. The project was successfully completed.
Since 2008, has been engaged in the study and systematization of character repertoires of extinct scripts (Tangut, Khitan, and Jurchen) for their integration into the international Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards. These scripts are traditionally researched at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (IOM), based on its unique Oriental collections, including the world’s largest Collection of Tangut texts. The extensive experience and authoritative scholarly tradition of the IOM have ensured its indisputable contribution to the global process of research, standardizing and encoding these scripts.
Co-author and co-developer of successfully adopted or ongoing proposals for encoding the character repertoires of the following scripts in the Universal Character Set (UCS):
1) Tangut Script characters and components (included in Unicode Standard 9.0.0, published on June 21, 2016, and ISO/IEC 10646:2014/Amd 2:2016, published on May 1, 2016);
2) Khitan Small Script characters (included in Unicode Standard 13.0.0, published on March 10, 2020, and ISO/IEC 10646:2020 (Sixth edition), published in December 2020);
3) Jurchen Large Script characters and radicals (co-author and co-developer of draft proposals prepared in 2017–2018);
4) Jurchen Small Script characters (encoding proposal submitted in 2025);
as well as numerous additions and corrections to the repertoires of the aforementioned scripts.
Fields of special interest:
Tangut (西夏), Khitan (契丹), and Jurchen (女真) scripts, languages and written monuments; history of Far Eastern lexicography; decipherment of scripts and languages; palaeography, epigraphy, textual criticism, lexicography, orthography of written monuments, grammatology, graphemics.
Publications
( the entire list as a *.pdf file) [2024]
Tai Chung-pui, Zaytsev V. Tibetan Buddhism practice of the great seal (mahāmudrā) as recorded in Tangut fragments with Tibetan phonetic glosses: an annotated sentence-based reading of Tang. 1075/Fr. 6(11) // Тангутская и китайская филология. К юбилею М. В. Софронова. Москва: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2024. P. 363–395. (Учёные записки Отдела Китая ИВ РАН; Вып. 47). ISBN 978-5-907846-10-4.
Zaytsev V., West A. Preliminary study of a manuscript fragment in an unidentified script from the Western Xia Shānzuǐgōu site // Тангутская и китайская филология. К юбилею М. В. Софронова. Москва: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2024. P. 345–362. (Учёные записки Отдела Китая ИВ РАН; Вып. 47). ISBN 978-5-907846-10-4.
[2023]
The Age of Sergey Fedorovich Oldenburg in the Russian Academy of Sciences : International Conference dedicated to the 160th anniversary of Academician Sergey F. Oldenburg (1863–1934). Saint Petersburg, September 26–27, 2023 : Abstracts / Compiled by Irina Popova, Viacheslav Zaytsev ; Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. — Saint Petersburg : IOM RAS, 2023. — 55 p. : il.
Zaytsev V., Tai Chung-pui. Nikolai Nevsky, Ishihama Juntarō, and the Lost “Extended Manual” of Tangut Characters with Tibetan Phonetic Glosses // Written Monuments of the Orient. 2023. Vol. 9, Supplement (19). P. 18–48.
[2022]
Tangut studies: Prospects and problems for the 21st century : International conference in memory of Evgeny I. Kychanov (1932–2013). Saint Petersburg, June 23–24, 2022 : Abstracts / Compiled by Irina Popova, Viacheslav Zaytsev ; Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. — Saint Petersburg : IOM RAS, 2022. — 94 p. : il.
[2017]
Bobrov L.A., Zaytsev V.P., Orlenko S.P., Salnikov A.V. The Late Jurchen (Early Manchu) Helmet of the Second Half of the 1610s to the Mid-1630s from the Collection of the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin // Bylye Gody (Foretime): Russian Historical Journal. 2017. Vol. 46, Is. 4. P. 1140—1173.
West A., Zhamsoev A., Zaytsev V. [Document No.] JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4781 = L2/17-007: Proposal to encode one historical Mongolian letter for Buryat Mongolian // The Unicode Consortium: [official website]. 2017. 12 pp.
[2016]
West A., Zaytsev V., Everson M. [Document No.] JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4725R = L2/16-113R: Towards an Encoding of the Khitan Small Script // The Unicode Consortium: [official website]. 2016. 194 pp.
Zaytsev V., Tai Chung-pui. Re-examination of the Tangut Fragment Or. 12380/3495 from the Collection of the British Library // The 6th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies. Saint Petersburg, October 2–6, 2016: Abstracts. St. Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State University, 2016. P. 105—108.
Zaytsev V., West A. [Document No.] JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4765 = L2/16-277: Discussion of 29 proposed Khitan Small Script characters // The Unicode Consortium: [official website]. 2016. 35 pp.
[2015]
Zaytsev V.P. Identification of a Khitan historical work as part of the Nova H 176 manuscript codex from the collection of the IOM RAS and related problems [Идентификация киданьского исторического сочинения в составе рукописной книги-кодекса Nova H 176 из коллекции ИВР РАН и сопутствующие проблемы] // Acta linguistica Petropolitana: Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies. Vol. XI, part 3. St. Petersburg, Nauka, 2015. P. 167—208, 821—822 (summary in Russian), 850—851 (summary in English).
[2011]
Zaytsev V.P. A Manuscript Codex Written in the Khitan Large Script from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences [Рукописная книга большого киданьского письма из коллекции Института восточных рукописей РАН] // Written Monuments of the Orient, № 2(15), autumn-winter 2011. Moscow, Nauka, Vostochnaya Literatura Publishers, 2011. P.130—150.
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