Khoruzhiy's father was an
Arctic pilot who died while serving in
World War II in 1941, the same year Khorouzhiy was born. His mother,
Vera Kharuzhaya, was a leader in the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union. She was one of the leaders in World War II in
Vitebsk, but was captured and tortured by the
Germans in 1942. Khoruzhiy was then brought up by his mother's family. After finishing school in
Moscow, Khoruzhiy entered the School of Physics at
Moscow State University in 1958. In 1964, he began studying quantum physics under
Nikolay Bogolyubov. He then graduated from the
Steklov Institute of Mathematics after studying under the guidance of Mikhail Polivanov. He earned a doctoral degree in mathematical physics in 1976. Khoruzhiy became a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 1993 while serving as a professor at the
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also served as a professor in the Department of Comparative Study of Religious Traditions at
UNESCO, and directed the Institute of Synergistic Anthropology, beginning in 2005. Lastly, he served as a professor at the Moscow School of New Cinema, established in 2012. In addition to his career in the scientific fields, Khoruzhiy published the works of philosophers
Pavel Florensky,
Sergei Bulgakov,
Aleksei Losev, and
Lev Karsavin. He also translated many works by the Irish author
James Joyce, such as
Ulysses and
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ==References==