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The paper suggests a short outline of the history of Sanskrit studies at the universities and academic bodies of Russia at the period of the 19-th - 21-st centuries. During the 1-st half of 19-th century the corresponding activity was mostly associated with scholars of German origin who were either teaching Sanskrit through the help of Latin language to Russian students at the universities of Kharkov and S.-Petersburg or providing research in Sanskrit as part of Indo-European comparative philology. The proper scientific approach towards Sanskritic studies was started by I.Minaev of S.-Petersburg in the 2-nd half of 19-th century. Later, in the 20-th and 21-st centiries, a great number of Russian scholars came into the fields of Sanskritic philology, linguistics, culturology and the related other studies.