Aleksandr Pavlovich Volodin (russian: Александр Павлович Володин, 14 November 1935 – 6 July 2017) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, specializing in
Paleo-Asiatic
Paleosiberian (or Paleo-Siberian) languages or Paleoasian (Paleo-Asiatic) (from , "ancient") are several Language isolate, linguistic isolates and small Language family, families of languages spoken in parts of northeastern Siberia and the Ru ...
and
Finno-Ugric languages.
Volodin studied Finno-Ugric languages on the College of Philology of the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University between 1953 and 1958. From 1961, he worked at the Language Institute of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, specializing in endangered
Itelmen language of Kamchatka. He received his Ph.D. in 1980, and from 2005 to 2017 he worked as a professor at the
Herzen University of
Saint Petersburg, as well as with the Institute of Language Research (ILI) of the Languages of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN).
Volodin published around 190 scientific and pedagogic papers and textbooks, and 12 scientific monographs. He participated in 10 expeditions to
Kamchatka, where he studied the language and culture of
Kereks and
Itelmen; and on the
Naryan-Mar region of Russian Arctic, studying
Nenets people and
languages
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.
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References
Linguists from Russia
1935 births
2017 deaths
Herzen University faculty
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