Galina Gavrilovna Ershova (alternatively, Yershova; in Russian: Галина Гавриловна Ершова; born 17 March 1955) is a prominent Russian academic historian, linguist and epigrapher, who specialises in the study of the ancient civilisations, cultures and languages of the New World. As an Americanist scholar her area of expertise is in the field of Mesoamerican studies, and in particular that of the pre-Columbian Maya civilisation, its historical literature and its writing system. Ershova is a former student and protégé of the famed Russian linguist and epigrapher Yuri Knorozov, renowned for his central contributions towards the decipherment of the Maya script.

As of 2008^[update], Dr. Ershova is a senior fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archaeology at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU), and director of the RGGU's Centre for Mesoamerican Research. She has authored approximately 200 papers in scientific, art and literature publications, including some eight monographs on Maya writing, history and archaeoastronomy.

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