Leonid Rankov rodilsya v Leningrade. Istorik, bibliograf, arkheolog. Okonchil bibliotechnyy fakultet Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo instituta kultury (1971). Rabotal zaveduyushchim bibliotekoy, starshim bibliotekarem v nauchnoy biblioteke LGU, ekskursovodom v muzeye Petropavlovskaya krepost i po pamyatnym mestam Leningrada. V vosmidesyatye gody uchastvoval v arkheologicheskikh ekspeditsiyakh v Srednyuyu Aziyu. V Izraile s 1989 po 2018 god zanimal dolzhnost glavnogo bibliotekarya i referenta biblioteki Upravleniya drevnostey Izrailya (Israel Antiquities Authority), odnogo iz krupneyshikh v mire sobraniy literatury po arkheologii Blizhnego Vostoka. V nastoyashcheye vremya rabotayet v Tsentre issledovaniya diaspory Tel-Avivskogo universiteta, gde zanimayetsya analizom publikatsiy istoricheskikh materialov. Avtor povesti Kabare v Berline, novell v almanakhe Literaturnyy prestizh. Chlen Soyuza russkoyazychnykh pisateley Izrailya. V 1940 godu vo vremya arkheologicheskikh raskopok v podmandatnoy Palestine bessledno ischezayet talantlivyy amerikanskiy arkheolog-preistorik. Yego imya postepenno predayotsya zabveniyu v nauchnoy srede, a obstoyatelstva posledney ekspeditsii stanovyatsya predmetom slukhov i nedomolвok. Spustya polveka molodoy izrailskiy arkheolog pytayetsya nayti razgadku yego tainstvennogo ischeznoveniya. Rabotaya s arkhivami, publikatsiyami i svidetelstvami ochevidtsev, arkheolog prikhodit k vyvodu, chto zdes skryvayetsya chya-to produmannaya konspiratsiya. Materialy obrastayut sobytiyami i sudbami lyudey, tak ili inache prichastnykh k biografii geroya. V tragedii odnogo cheloveka otrazheny istoricheskie potryaseniya i dukhovnye kompromissy, kotorye delayut vozmozhnymi katastrofy XX i XXI vekov.
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