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Voroshil Gukasyan
Voroshil Levonovich Gukasyan (1932–1986) was a Soviet linguist, caucasologist and specialist in Udi language and Caucasian Albanian inscriptions. He was born in the village Nij, Azerbaijan and was Udi by ethnicity. He worked at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1965 he defended his thesis on the phonetic and morphological features of the Udi "Nij" dialect. His thesis defense was held at the Philological Faculty of Tbilisi State University. The head of the research project was Jeyranishvili (Udi from Zinobiani). In 1973 Gukasyan became a Doctor of Philology, defended at the Institute of Linguistics of the Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences study on "The relationship of Azeri and Udi languages". Of particular note is his release in 1974 of the ''Udi-Azerbaijani-Russian Dictionary'', which remains today the only large body of vocabulary of both modern Udi languages,"The only true dictionary of the language", Nij and Vartashen dialects. He is also author of many article ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voroshil Gukasyan
Voroshil Levonovich Gukasyan (1932–1986) was a Soviet linguist, caucasologist and specialist in Udi language and Caucasian Albanian inscriptions. He was born in the village Nij, Azerbaijan and was Udi by ethnicity. He worked at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1965 he defended his thesis on the phonetic and morphological features of the Udi "Nij" dialect. His thesis defense was held at the Philological Faculty of Tbilisi State University. The head of the research project was Jeyranishvili (Udi from Zinobiani). In 1973 Gukasyan became a Doctor of Philology, defended at the Institute of Linguistics of the Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences study on "The relationship of Azeri and Udi languages". Of particular note is his release in 1974 of the ''Udi-Azerbaijani-Russian Dictionary'', which remains today the only large body of vocabulary of both modern Udi languages,"The only true dictionary of the language", Nij and Vartashen dialects. He is also author of many article ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udi Language
The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan. The Old Udi language is also called the Caucasian Albanian language and possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians. Modern Udi is known simply as Udi. The language is spoken by about 4000 people in the village of Nij, Azerbaijan, in Qabala District, in Oghuz District, as well as in parts of North Caucasus in Russia. It is also spoken by ethnic Udis living in the villages of Debetavan, Bagratashen, Ptghavan, and Haghtanak in Tavush Province of northeastern Armenia and in the village of Zinobiani (former Oktomberi) in the Qvareli Municipality of the Kakheti province of Georgia. Udi is endangered, classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Red Book of Endang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Albania
Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus: mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are ''Aghwank'' and ''Aluank'', among the Udi people, who regard themselves as descended from the inhabitants of Caucasian Albania. However, its original endonym is unknown.Robert H. Hewsen. "Ethno-History and the Armenian Influence upon the Caucasian Albanians", in: Samuelian, Thomas J. (Ed.), ''Classical Armenian Culture. Influences and Creativity''. Chicago: 1982, pp. 27-40. Bosworth, Clifford E.br>Arran ''Encyclopædia Iranica''. The name Albania is derived from the Ancient Greek name and Latin .James Stuart Olson. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. The prefix "Caucasian" is used purely to avoid confusion with modern Albania of the Balkans, which has no known geographical or historical connections to Caucasian Albania. Little is known of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nij, Azerbaijan
Nij (also known as Nidzh; az, Nic; Udi: ''НыъжӀ'' or ''НиъжӀ'') is a town in the Qabala District of Azerbaijan, located forty kilometers south-west of Qabala. It's one of the world's few settlements of Udi people. It has a population of 5,744. History The Caucasian Albanian-Udi Apostolic Autocephalous Church is located in Nij. The first Udi school and subsequently a Russian rural school were opened in Nij in 1854. From 1931 to 1933, Udis received education in their own language; in 1937 they began to receive education in the Azeri language. Ethnic Udis in Nij today are involved in a variety of vocations, which include farming, cattle breeding, rice cultivation, sericulture Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, '' Bombyx mori'' (the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth) is the most widely used and intensively stud ..., horticulture, poultry farming, craftsmanship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udi People
Udis (endonym ''Udi'' or ''Uti'') are a native people of the Caucasus that currently live mainly in Russia and Azerbaijan, with smaller populations in Georgia (country), Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries. Their total number is about 10,000 people. They speak the Udi language, which belongs to the Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language family. Some also speak Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani, Russian language, Russian, Georgian language, Georgian or Armenian language, Armenian, depending on where they reside. Their religion is Christianity. History The Udi are considered to be one of the 26 tribes of the Caucasian Albania of late antiquity. According to the classical authors, the Udi inhabited the area of the eastern Caucasus along the coast of the Caspian Sea, in a territory extending to the Kura (Caspian Sea), Kura River in the north. There was also province of the Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Kingdom of Armenia, Utik, Utikʻ (lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvilis saxelobis Tbilisis saxelmts'ipo universit'et'i'', often shortened to its historical name, Tbilisi State University or TSU) is a public research university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Excluding academies and theological seminaries, which have intermittently functioned in Georgia for centuries, TSU is the oldest university in Georgia and the Caucasus region. Over 23 500 students are enrolled and the total number of faculty and staff (collaborators) is 5,000. According to the U.S. News & World Report university rankings, TSU is ranked 398th in the world, tied with the University of Warsaw. The university has five branches in the regions of Georgia, six faculties, 60 scientific-research laboratories and centers, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinobiani
Zinobiani (), formerly Oktomberi (, between 1938 and 2010) is a village in Georgia. It is located in eastern Georgia, in the Qvareli Municipality of the Kakheti region. It has been one of the main places of compact residence of the Udis since 1920s. History It was founded in 1922 by Orthodox Udis from the city of Vartashen (modern Oğuz, Azerbaijan), who came to Georgia in search of refuge from Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict of 1918-1920s. The resettlement was led by Zinobi Silikashvili. The first group of settlers arrived in 1922 and chose a place for settlement, in 1924 further 22 families settled there. Silikashvili was arrested and executed in 1938, village was renamed Oktomberi until 2010. Population According to the 1989 census, the number of Udis in Georgia was estimated at 93 people. At the beginning of the 21st century there were about 50 Udi households in the village, or about 300 people. According to the 2002 census, out of 412 villagers, Georgians made up 49% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Deaths
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Qabala District
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linguists From The Soviet Union
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. Alphabetical list __NOTOC__ A *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 B *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 languages, Celtic and Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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