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Philologist
Dmitry Likhachyov with a text in
Old East Slavic on the background of the
Russian Literature Institute (Russian postage stamp).
This list of
Russian
linguists and
philologists includes notable linguists from the
Russian Federation , the
Soviet Union , the
Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.
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Vasily Abaev , prominent researcher of
Iranian languages
Solomon Adlivankin , Soviet linguist, the founder of
Perm derivatology school, took part in compiling
Akchim dialect dictionary
Vladimir Admoni , linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, worked on the theory of grammar, historic and modern German syntax, defended
Joseph Brodsky in court in 1964
Alexander Afanasyev , leading Russian
folklorist , recorded and published over 600
Russian fairy tales , by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the world
Baudouin de Courtenay
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Ivan Baudouin de Courtenay , co-inventor of the concept of
phoneme and the systematic treatment of
alternations , pioneer of
synchronic analysis and
mathematical linguistics
Victor Bayda , linguist specializing in
Celtic and
Germanic languages
Alexander Belskiy ,
Soviet specialist in
literary criticism , famous
Anglicist , founder of philological faculty at
Perm State University , founder of Foreign literature Department at
PSU
Otto von Böhtlingk , prominent
Indologist and
Sanskrit grammarian
Fyodor Buslaev , philologist and folklorist, representative of the
Mythological school of
comparative literature
Yakov Brandt , Sinologist
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Elena Fedorova , scholar of antiquity; doctor of philology, specialising in classical philology and cultural history
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Pyotr Kafarov , prominent
sinologist , developed the
cyrillization of Chinese , discovered and published many invaluable manuscripts, including
The Secret History of the Mongols
Lomonosov
Alexander Kibrik , eminent
typologist and
caucasologist
Andrej Kibrik , specialist in
linguistic typology ,
cognitive linguistics ,
discourse analysis , and
Athabaskan languages
Valeriya Kirpichenko , linguist, translator, specialist in Arabic literature, professor at the
Institute of Oriental Studies of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
Yuri Knorozov , linguist,
epigrapher and ethnographer, deciphered the ancient
Maya script , proposed a decipherment for the
Indus script
Rimma Komina , Soviet and Russian specialist in
literary criticism , the Dean of philological faculty at
Perm State University (1977–1982)
Andrey Korsakov , eminent
linguist and language
philosopher , specialised in the
Germanic languages and
English
grammar , suggested
philosophic reasoning for the
parts of speech system and
philosophic understanding of
syntactic categories
Margarita Kozhina , Soviet and Russian linguist, specialist in stylistics, the founder of
Perm school of functional
stylistics
Nikolay Krushevsky , co-inventor of the concept of
phoneme and the systematic treatment of
alternations
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Sergey Malov , turkologist, classified the
Turkic alphabets , deciphered ancient
Orkhon script
Nicholas Marr , put forth a pseudo-linguistic
Japhetic theory on the
origin of language
Igor Melchuk , structural linguist, author of
Meaning-Text Theory
Anatoly Moskvin , philologist and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
Leonid Murzin , Soviet and Russian linguist, the head of Perm derivatology school; he founded the Institute of dynamic linguistics
Vladimir Müller , linguist and lexicographer, author of popular English–Russian dictionary
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Ilia Peiros , a long-range comparative linguist known for his work on
Austric languages
Stephan of Perm , 14th century missionary, converted
Komi Permyaks to Christianity and invented the
Old Permic script
Yevgeny Polivanov , linguist, orientalist and
polyglot , developed the
cyrillization of Japanese
Nicholas Poppe , prominent
Altaic languages researcher
Vladimir Propp ,
formalist scholar, major researcher of
folk tales and
mythology
Tatyana Proskuryakova ,
Mayanist scholarand archaeologist, deciphered the ancient
Maya script
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Trubetzkoy
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Franz Anton Schiefner , prominent
tibetologist ,
Finnic and
Caucasus languages researcher
Isaac Jacob Schmidt , first researcher of
Mongolian
Aleksey Shakhmatov , founder of
textology , prepared major 20th century
reforms of Russian orthography , pioneered the systematic research of
Old Russian and medieval
Russian literature
Lev Shcherba ,
phonetist and
phonologist , author of the
glokaya kuzdra phrase
Fyodor Shcherbatskoy ,
Indologist , initiated the scholarly study of
Buddhist philosophy in the West
Vitaly Shevoroshkin , a long-range comparative linguists
Ivan Snegiryov , early collector of
Russian proverbs and researcher of
lubok prints
Izmail Sreznevsky , leading 19th century
Slavist , published
Codex Zographensis ,
Codex Marianus and
Kiev Fragments
Georgiy Starostin , son of
Sergei Starostin and long-range comparative linguistic researcher
Sergei Starostin , prominent supporter of
Altaic languages theory, proposed
Dené–Caucasian languages
macrofamily , reconstructed a number of Eurasian proto-languages
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Zaliznyak
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Matrena Vakhrusheva , linguist and philologist, wrote the first Mansi-Russian dictionary and a pioneer in the development of Mansi literature and orthography for the
Mansi language
Max Vasmer , leading
Indo-European ,
Finno-Ugric and
Turkic
etymologist , author of the '
Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language [
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Viktor Vinogradov , linguist and philologist, founder of the
Russian Language Institute
Alexander Vostokov , coined the term
Old Church Slavonic , discovered
Ostromir Gospel (the most ancient
East Slavic book), pioneer researcher of the
Russian grammar
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