Timur Petrovich Novikov (September 24, 1958, Leningrad – May 23, 2002, St. Petersburg) was a Russian philosopher, graphic artist, designer, painter, art theorist and curator. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Nonconformist Art before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Russia.
As he grew up in the Soviet Union, Novikov experienced its cultural and political constraints. His artistic education began at the age of 7 at the House of Pioneers in Leningrad, and later at the Club of Young Fine Art Lovers at the Russian Museum in the same city.
In 1977 he became a member of the "Letopis" (Chronicles) art group; and in 1982 he founded "The New Artists" movement. During the 1980s Timur Novikov was employed at the Russian Museum and enjoyed access to its collection and archive, as well as close working relations with its curators and keepers. This connection lasted to when he started work as an artist. In 1990 and 1991 he studied as an intern at the "Institute of Plastic Arts" in Paris, France.
Timur (Persian: تیمور Timūr, Chagatai: Temür, Uzbek: Temur; died 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane (Persian: تيمور لنگ Timūr(-e) Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia. He was also the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty.
Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana during the 1320s or 1330s, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, Caucasus and southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire and the declining Delhi Sultanate. From these conquests he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death.
Timur is considered the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe, and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured and lasting Gunpowder Empires in the 1500s and 1600s.
Timur, Temür, Temir or Tömör (Mongolian: Төмөр) is a Turkic and Mongolic name which literally means iron. It is a cognate of the Turkish name Demir.
Notable people with the name include:
Taimur also spelled as Timur or Taimoor most commonly refers to Timur, a 14th-century Turko-Mongol ruler also known as Tamerlane.
It may also refer to: