Dictionary of the Russian Language (russian: Слова́рь ру́сского языка́) is an

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of the

Russian language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European langua ...

. The first edition was published under the editorship of

Ozhegov Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович О́жегов; 22 September 1900 – 15 December 1964) was a Russian lexicographer who in 1926 graduated from the Leningrad University where his teachers included ...

in 1949.Словарь

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It contained about 57,000 words; its 21st edition (1990) counted 70,000 word entries. From 1992 the dictionary is released with the names of two co-authors, Ozhegov and Shvedova.

Editions

The immediate predecessor of this dictionary was the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language under the editorship of

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Dmitry Ushakov Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov (russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Ушако́в; January 24, 1873 – April 17, 1942) was a Russian philologist and lexicographer.Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

of the

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with the

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began. On April 17, 1942 Ushakov died in

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where he was evacuated from Moscow. The editorial responsibilities and duties for the next publication of an explanatory dictionary passed to

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Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov (1900–1964), one of the co-editors of Ushakov's Dictionary. Given the acute shortage of material resources after the war, and pursuing the goal to accelerate the release of a new dictionary, it was decided to reduce its scope by 4 times, restricting it to a single volume. At the same time the composition of vocabulary was also drastically modified, reflecting the changes in language which occurred in the last decade (the first volume of Ushakov's dictionary was signed for printing in 1935). The compilation of new dictionary was finished by 1949. This first edition of Ozhegov's Dictionary contained about 57,000 words. The author personally corrected and updated the 2nd edition (1952) and the 4th edition (1960). Before Ozhegov died (1964), the 5th and 6th editions were printed. From the 9th edition (1972)

Natalia Shvedova Natalia Yulievna Shvedova (russian: link=no, Ната́лия Ю́льевна Шве́дова, 25 December 1916 – 18 September 2009) was a Soviet lexicographer who authored several standard outlines of Russian grammar, for which she was awar ...

(1916–2009) was appointed as the editor. She made improvements to the 13th (1981) and to the 16th edition (1984). From 1992 the dictionary is released with the names of two authors, Ozhegov and Shvedova. The 4th edition of Ozhegov–Shvedova dictionary was printed in 1997, supplemented with 3,000 new entries.

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External links

"On-line Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language"
Russian dictionaries