Muhammad Abdulkadyrovich Dandamayev (Lak: Мухаммад Абдулкадырович Дандамаев; September 2, 1928 – August 28, 2017 [1]), Chief Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM-RAS), was a historian who focused on the ancient Persian Empire, and the social institutions of Babylonia during the first millennium BCE.[2][3]