Janolah Karimi Motahhar, Professor of Russian Language and Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tehran, is a leading scholarly figure in comparative literature and Iran–Russia studies. Over more than three decades of academic service, he has played a central role in strengthening the teaching, research, and translation of classical and contemporary Russian texts in Iran, helping to consolidate Russian literary studies as a robust field within Iranian higher education.