Moscow State University Purabi Roy ( née Mukherjee; Bengali: পূরবী রায়; born 12 July 1941) is an Indian multi-disciplinary researcher, author, and an eminent scholar in Russian language and history.
Her father Peary Mukherjee was the President of Calcutta Club in 1955 and was also a member of the Central Board of Directors, RBI, Eastern area from 1953 to 1955 along with B.M.Birla, O.T.Jenkins, Jiban Krishna Mitter and Dr. Bimala Churn Law.
In 1995, Asiatic Society sent a three-member team led by Purabi Roy along with Hari Vasudevan and professor Sobhanlal Datta Gupta to Moscow for the collection of documents on Indo-Soviet relations from the period 1917 to 1947 as a protocol signed between the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and The Asiatic Society.
[5][6][7] A specialist of Russian language and politics, Professor Roy participated in various International seminars and conferences.
In 2012 Purabi Roy delivered her lecture at Humboldt University of Berlin on New findings on Subhas Chandra Bose based on her research material collected from Russian, German, British and Indian archives.