Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky (russian: Лев Васильевич Успенский, 8 February 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a Russian writer and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

, known for his popular science books in

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.Uspensky's biography sketch
from the ''

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Works

Prose

*«Запах лимона» (1928, with L.L. Rubinov, as Lev Rubus) *«Пулковский меридиан» (1939, with G.N. Karayev) *«60-я параллель» (1955, with G.N. Karayev)

Science fiction

*Плавание «Зэты». (1946) *Шальмугровое яблоко. (1972) *Эн-два-о плюс икс дважды. (1971)

Popular science

*«Слово о словах» (1954), popular linguistics *«Ты и твоё имя» (1960), popular linguistics *«Имя дома твоего» (1967), popular linguistics *«Загадки топонимики» (1969), popular linguistics *«По закону буквы», popular linguistics, history of Russian alphabet *Почему не иначе? Этимологический словарь школьника *За языком до Киева, popular linguistics *По дорогам и тропам языка, popular linguistics *За семью печатями, popular archaeology *Записки старого петербуржца, popular history of St.Petersburg *Мифы Древней Греции, popular Greek mythology *Золотое руно; Двенадцать подвигов Геракла, popular Greek mythology

References

1900 births 1978 deaths Russian writers Russian philologists Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery 20th-century philologists {{russia-linguist-stub