Abbreviations
| AD | Anno Domini |
| AH | Hijri year (after Hijra of the prophet) |
| ALTA | American Literary Translators Association |
| AS USSR | The Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| BC | Before Christ |
| Comintern | Communist International |
| CPSU | The Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| ESP | English for Specific Purposes |
| GBV | Gender-based Violence |
| GIA | Global Iranian Association |
| HPL | History of Persian literature |
| IRPHE | The Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education |
| ISNA | Iranian Students’ News Agency |
| IZhVYa | Institute of Living Oriental Languages (Institut Zhyvykh Vostochnykh Yazykov) |
| KSA | Knowledge, Skills, Abilities |
| KUTV | Communist University of the Toilers of the East (Kommunisticheskiy Universitet Trudyashchikhsia Vostoka) |
| LIFLI | Leningrad Philosophical, Linguistic and Historical Institute (Leningradkiy Institut Filosofii, Lingvistiki i Istorii) |
| LILI | Leningrad Historical and Linguistic Institute (Leningradkiy Istoriko-Lingvisticheskiy Institut) |
| LIZhVYa | Leningrad Institute of Living Oriental Languages |
| LSP | Language for Specific Purposes |
| LVI | Leningrad [A.S. Yenukidze] Oriental Institute (Leningradskiy Vostochny Institut) |
| MGIMO | Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Moskovskiy Gosudarstvenny Institut Mezhdunarodnykh Otnosheniy) |
| MIV | Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies (Moskovskiy Institut Vostokovedeniya) |
| NYU | New York University |
| PIZhVYa | Petrograd Institute of Living Oriental Languages (Petrogradskiy Institut Zhyvykh Vostochnykh Yazykov) |
| PL | Persian Literature |
| PSP | Persian for Specific Purposes |
| RSFSR | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| SAMT | The Organization for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in the Islamic Sciences and the Humanities |
| SH | Solar Hijri |
| Tajik SSR | Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic |
| TsIZhVYa | Central Institute of Living Oriental Languages (Tzentralny Institut Zhyvykh Vostochnykh Yazykov) |
| UNC | University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) |
| UNESCO | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| USSR | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| UT | University of Texas, Austin |
| WWI | World War I |
| WWII | World War II |