Nikolai Abramovich Rogov (russian: Никола́й Абра́мович Ро́гов, 1825 — 5 August 1905) was a Russian

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

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 ...

, a researcher of

Komi-Permyak language Permyak language (previously Komi-Permyak language; or ) is one of two Permic varieties in the Uralic language family that form a pluricentric language, the other being Komi-Zyryan ( Udmurt is another Permic language spoken outside of the ...

. He is known as the author of the first and one of the most complete dictionaries of that language. The dictionary contains about 13,000 words. Nikolai Rogov was born in 1825 in Sredne-Yegvinskoye settlement of

Perm Governorate Perm Governorate (russian: link=no, Пермская губерния) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from 1781 to 1923. It was also known as the ''government of Perm''. It was located on both slopes of t ...

in serf family. He studied in the Saint-Petersburg School of Agriculture, Mining and Metallurgical Sciences. Since 1850 he worked as a forester in

Stroganovs The Stroganovs or Strogonovs (russian: link=no, Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы), French spelling: Stroganoff, were a family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. From the time of Iva ...

' estate. Later he was appointed manager of Kyn Factory ( Кыновский завод) in

Kungursky Uyezd Kungursky Uyezd (russian: Кунгурский уезд) was an administrative division of Perm Governorate, Russian Empire, which existed in 1781-1921. Its administrative center was the town of Kungur. Area: 11,372.6 km². Demographics At t ...

( Кунгурский уезд). There, in 1864, he established Kyn Co-operative Society, the first private co-operative society in Russia.N. A. Rogov.
— Outstanding public figures and natives of Perm Governorate. Since 1849 Rogov worked on the creation of "Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary", which was published in

Saint-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in 1869. The dictionary included about 13,000 words of Inva and Nerdva dialects of Komi-Permyak language. In 2007 the dictionary was republished by Komy-Permyak Publishing House. A historian

Aleksandr Dmitriyev Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dmitriyev (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Дми́триев; born in Leningrad on 19 January 1935), PAU, is a Russian conductor of orchestral and choral music and opera. He has been director of the S ...

( Александр Дмитриев) in "Old times of Perm" reported about Rogov as follows:''A. Dmitriyev.'' Old times of Perm. Issue 1. Chapter 2. The degree of cultural development of ancient Perm dwellers according to excavations data. The skeptics of Biarmia.
Nikolai Rogov died on 5 August 1905.

Publications

* Experience of Grammatics of Permyak language. — Saint-Petersburg, 1860. * Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary. — Saint-Petersburg, 1869. * a number of articles in

Perm Governorate News Perm or PERM may refer to: Places * Perm, Russia, a city in Russia **Permsky District, the district **Perm Krai, a federal subject of Russia since 2005 **Perm Oblast, a former federal subject of Russia 1938–2005 **Perm Governorate, an administra ...

( Пермские губернские ведомости).

References

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