Georgi Matveyevich Derluguian[a] (born 25 October 1961, also known as Gevorg Martiros Derlugian)[b] is a sociologist and historian of Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian descent.
After the 1921 Treaty of Kars returned Artvin to Turkey, they moved to the Donbas village of Yenakiyevo where Derluguian's father, Matvei (Martiros) Martirosovich Derlugyan, was born.
Derluguian's mother, Yekaterina Kondratyevna Tarasenko, was born in the village of Starovelichkovskaya [uk], Krasnodar Krai to a family of Kuban Cossacks.
Derluguian was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2001 and received a research grant for his thesis, "The Globalization of Mafia Enterprise: From Diagnosis to Civil Society Counteraction.
[12] Derluguian is a former fellow at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he worked on the project, "The Soviet Collapse, China's Rise: A Comparative Macrosociological Interpretation.