Lev Rafailovich Kontsevich (born September 3, 1930, Tambov) – famous Soviet and Russian orientalist, Korean studies, candidate of philological sciences. He is best known for the development of a system for transliterating the characters of the Korean Hangeul alphabet into Cyrillic (Kontsevich system), which is now the de facto standard for translating Korean words into Cyrillic and since the 1970s has been used when transmitting geographic names of Korea into Russian. Father of the mathematician Maxim . Biography Born into…