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

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* Vasily Abaev, prominent researcher of Iranian languages *

Solomon Adlivankin Solomon Juryevich (correct: Uravich) Adlivankin (russian: link=no, Соломóн Ю́рьевич (correct: У́равич) Адливáнкин, ) was a Soviet linguist, the Dean of philological faculty at Perm State University (1967–1971), ...

, Soviet linguist, the founder of Perm derivatology school, took part in compiling Akchim dialect dictionary *

Vladimir Admoni Vladímir Admóni (russian: Владимир Григорьевич Адмони) (October 29, 1909, St. Petersburg, Russia - 26 November 1993, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, doctor of philo ...

, linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, worked on the theory of grammar, historic and modern German syntax, defended

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

in court in 1964 * Alexander Afanasyev, leading Russian

folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...

, recorded and published over 600

Russian fairy tale A Russian fairy tale or folktale (russian: ска́зка; ''skazka''; "story"; plural russian: ска́зки , translit = skazki) is a fairy tale from Russia. Various sub-genres of ''skazka'' exist. A ''volshebnaya skazka'' �олше́бн ...

s, by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the world Baudouin1

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* Ivan Baudouin de Courtenay, co-inventor of the concept of phoneme and the systematic treatment of alternations, pioneer of

synchronic analysis Synchrony and diachrony are two complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis. A ''synchronic'' approach (from grc, συν- "together" and "time") considers a language at a moment in time without taking its history into account. Synchronic l ...

and

mathematical linguistics Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics d ...

Victor Bayda Victor Victorovich Bayda (russian: Виктор Викторович Байда; born ) is a Russian linguist who specializes in Celtic and Germanic languages. He is currently a language-planning officer in the Iveragh Gaeltacht of County Kerr ...

, linguist specializing in Celtic and Germanic languages *

Alexander Belskiy Alexander Andreevich Belskiy (russian: Алекса́ндр Андрéевич Бéльский, ) was a Soviet specialist in literary criticism, Anglicist (he did researches in realism development in the English literature). Alexander Belskiy fou ...

, Soviet specialist in

literary criticism Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

, famous Anglicist, founder of philological faculty at Perm State University, founder of Foreign literature Department at PSU * Otto von Böhtlingk, prominent Indologist and Sanskrit grammarian * Fyodor Buslaev, philologist and folklorist, representative of the

Mythological school Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrati ...

of comparative literature *

Yakov Brandt Yakov Yakovlevich Brandt (russian: Яков Яковлевич Брандт; 1869–1944, Beijing) was a Russian sinologist, diplomat, linguist and professor. He graduated from the Saratov gymnasium. In 1892 he graduated from the Faculty of Ori ...

, Sinologist

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* Vladimir Dal, greatest

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 ...

lexicographer of the 19th century, folklorist and turkologist, author of the '' Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language'' * Vladimir Dybo, a main figure in the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics

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Tamara Erofeyeva Tamara Ivanovna Erofeyeva (russian: Тамáра Ивáновна Ерофе́ева, ) (born June 29, 1937) is a Soviet-Russian linguist. She is a Doctor of Philology, served as Dean of the philological faculty at Perm State University (1982 ...

, leader of school « Sociolinguistic study of urban language», head of Socio- and

Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...

school at Department of General and Slavonic linguisticsPerm State University. Department of General and Slavonic linguistics. Socio- and Psycholinguistics school
/ref> at Perm State National Research University, Honorary Figure of Russian Higher Education

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* Dmitry Gerasimov, medieval translator, diplomat and philologist, correspondent of European Renaissance scholars

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* Eugene Helimski, a long-range comparative linguist

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* Vladislav Illich-Svitych, founder of Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics * Vyacheslav Ivanov, founder of glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism

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* Roman Jakobson, literary theorist and preeminent linguist of the 20th century, a founder of phonology, made numerous contributions to

Slavic linguistics Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

, author of

Jackobson's Communication Model Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. Each of the functions has an associated factor. For this work, Jakobson was influenced ...

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* Pyotr Kafarov, prominent

sinologist Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the ex ...

, developed the

cyrillization of Chinese The Cyrillization of Chinese (''Hanyu Cyril Pinyin'') is the transcription of Chinese characters into the Cyrillic alphabet. The Palladius System is the official Russian standard for transcribing Chinese into Russian, with variants existing f ...

, discovered and published many invaluable manuscripts, including '' The Secret History of the Mongols''

Evgeny Kazartsev Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene (given name), Eugene. People with the name include: :''Note: Occasion ...

, prominent slavist, germanist, developed the

comparative metric and prosody general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality or degree - see also comparison (grammar) for an overview of comparison, as well ...

Alexander Kibrik Alexander Kibrik ( Russian: ''Александр Евгеньевич Кибрик''; March 26, 1939 – 31 October, 2012)Obituary ...

, eminent typologist and caucasologist * Andrej Kibrik, specialist in

linguistic typology Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...

, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and Athabaskan languages *

Valeriya Kirpichenko Valeriya Nikolaevna Kirpichenko ( rus, Валерия Николаевна Кирпиченко, 11 January 1930 – 2 June 2015) was a Russian orientalist, translator, and philologist, specialising in Arabic literature. Born in 1930, Kirpichen ...

, linguist, translator, specialist in Arabic literature, professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences * Yuri Knorozov, linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, deciphered the ancient Maya script, proposed a decipherment for the Indus script * Rimma Komina, Soviet and Russian specialist in

, the Dean of philological faculty at Perm State University (1977–1982) *

Andrey Korsakov Andrey Konstantinovich Korsakov (russian: Андрей Константинович Корсаков, uk, Андрій Костянтинович Корсаков; 30 October 1916 – 2007) was an eminent Russian and Ukrainian linguist and lang ...

, eminent linguist and language

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

, specialised in the Germanic languages and English grammar, suggested philosophic reasoning for the parts of speech system and philosophic understanding of

syntactic categories A syntactic category is a syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume. Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the ''phrasal c ...

Margarita Kozhina Margarita Nikolayevna Kozhina (russian: Маргари́та Никола́евна Ко́жина, ) (August 1, 1925 – August 11, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor of Philology, professor (1973), Honoured scientist of Russian Fe ...

, Soviet and Russian linguist, specialist in stylistics, the founder of Perm school of functional

stylistics Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individu ...

* Nikolay Krushevsky, co-inventor of the concept of phoneme and the systematic treatment of alternations

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* Gerasim Lebedev, pioneer of Indology, introduced Bengali script typing to Europe, founded the first European-style drama theater in India *

Dmitry Likhachov Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov (russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also ''Dmitri Likhachev'' or ''Likhachyov''; – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifet ...

, major 20th century expert on Old East Slavic language and literature *

Mikhail Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; russian: Михаил (Михайло) Васильевич Ломоносов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ , a=Ru-Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov.ogg; – ) was a Russian Empire, Russian polymath, s ...

, polymath scientist and artist, wrote a grammar that reformed Russian literary language by combining

Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with Standard language, standardizing the lan ...

with vernacular tongue * Nikolay Lvov, polymath artist and scientist, compiled the first significant collection of Russian folk songs, published epic bylinas Архимандрит Палладий

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Sergey Malov Sergey Efimovich Malov (russian: Серге́й Ефи́мович Ма́лов; 28 January 1880, Kazan - 6 September 1957, Leningrad) was a Russian Turkologist who made important contributions to the documentation of archaic and contemporary Tur ...

, turkologist, classified the Turkic alphabets, deciphered ancient Orkhon script * Nicholas Marr, put forth a pseudo-linguistic ''

Japhetic theory In linguistics, the Japhetic theory of Soviet linguist Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1864–1934) postulated that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area are related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East. The theory gained favor amon ...

'' on the

origin of language The origin of language (spoken and signed, as well as language-related technological systems such as writing), its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study th ...

* Igor Melchuk, structural linguist, author of Meaning-Text Theory * Anatoly Moskvin, philologist and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home. *

Leonid Murzin Leonid Nikolayevich Murzin (russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Мурзи́н, ; May 27, 1930 – October 13, 1996) was a USSR, Soviet and Russians, Russian Linguistics, linguist, the Dean of philological faculty at Perm State Univers ...

, Soviet and Russian linguist, the head of Perm derivatology school; he founded the Institute of dynamic linguistics * Vladimir Müller, linguist and lexicographer, author of popular English–Russian dictionary

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* Sergei Nikolaev, a long-range comparative linguist * Semyon Novgorodov, Yakut politician and linguist, creator of written Yakut language ( Sakha scripts)

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* Sergei Ozhegov, author of the most widely used explanatory dictionary of

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* Ilia Peiros, a long-range comparative linguist known for his work on

Austric languages The Austric languages are a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as the Austroasiatic languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asi ...

* Stephan of Perm, 14th century missionary, converted

Komi Permyaks The Komi ( kv, комияс, ' also ', also called Komi-Zyryans or Zyryans, are an indigenous Permian ethnic group whose homeland is in the northeast of European Russia around the basins of the Vychegda, Pechora and Kama rivers. They mostly ...

to Christianity and invented the Old Permic script *

Yevgeny Polivanov Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (russian: Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов; – 25 January 1938) was a Soviet linguist, orientalist and polyglot who wrote major works on the Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek and Dungan langua ...

, linguist, orientalist and polyglot, developed the cyrillization of Japanese * Nicholas Poppe, prominent Altaic languages researcher *

Vladimir Propp Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irredu ...

, formalist scholar, major researcher of folk tales and mythology *

Tatyana Proskuryakova Tat'yana Avenirovna Proskuriakova (russian: Татья́на Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва) ( – August 30, 1985) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering of M ...

, Mayanist scholarand archaeologist, deciphered the ancient Maya script

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* George de Roerich, major 20th century Tibetologist

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Franz Anton Schiefner Franz Anton Schiefner (June 18, 1817 – November 16, 1879) was a Baltic German linguist and tibetologist. Schiefner was born to a German-speaking family in Reval (Tallinn), Estonia, then part of Russian Empire. His father was a merchant wh ...

, prominent tibetologist, Finnic and Caucasus languages researcher * Isaac Jacob Schmidt, first researcher of Mongolian *

Aleksey Shakhmatov Alexei Alexandrovich Shakhmatov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Ша́хматов, – 16 August 1920) was a Russian Imperial philologist and historian credited with laying foundations for the science of tex ...

, founder of

textology Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a poin ...

, prepared major 20th century reforms of Russian orthography, pioneered the systematic research of

Old Russian Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian; be, старажытнаруская мова; russian: древнерусский язык; uk, давньоруська мова) was a language used during the 9th–15th centuries by East ...

and medieval

Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were c ...

* Lev Shcherba, phonetist and phonologist, author of the '' glokaya kuzdra'' phrase * Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Indologist, initiated the scholarly study of Buddhist philosophy in the West * Vitaly Shevoroshkin, a long-range comparative linguists * Ivan Snegiryov, early collector of

Russian proverbs Russian proverbs originated in oral history and written texts dating as far back as the 12th century. The Russian language is replete with many hundreds of proverbs (пословица ) and sayings (поговорка ). The proverbs express a ...

and researcher of lubok prints * Ljubov Sova (Aksenova), structural linguist and africanist, author of Analytical linguistics * Izmail Sreznevsky, leading 19th century Slavist, published ''

Codex Zographensis The ''Codex Zographensis'' (or ''Tetraevangelium Zographense''; scholarly abbreviation ''Zo'') is an illuminated Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript. It is composed of 304 parchment folios; the first 288 are written in Glagolitic containing Gospels ...

'', ''

Codex Marianus The ''Codex Marianus'' is an Old Church Slavonic fourfold Gospel Book written in Glagolitic script, dated to the beginning of the 11th century, which is (along with Codex Zographensis), one of the oldest manuscript witnesses to the Old Church Slav ...

'' and '' Kiev Fragments'' * Georgiy Starostin, son of Sergei Starostin and long-range comparative linguistic researcher * Sergei Starostin, prominent supporter of Altaic languages theory, proposed

Dené–Caucasian languages Dené–Caucasian is a proposed language family that includes widely-separated language groups spoken in the Northern Hemisphere: Sino-Tibetan languages, Yeniseian languages, Burushaski and North Caucasian languages in Asia; Na-Dené languages in ...

macrofamily, reconstructed a number of Eurasian proto-languages

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* Vasily Tatischev, geographer, ethnographer and historian, compiled the first encyclopedic

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...

of Russian * Chukchi Tenevil,

reindeer herder Reindeer herding is when reindeer are herded by people in a limited area. Currently, reindeer are the only semi-domesticated animal which naturally belongs to the North. Reindeer herding is conducted in nine countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Rus ...

who created a writing system for the

Chukchi language Chukchi , also known as Chukot, is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The language is closely related to Koryak ...

* Nikolai Trubetzkoy, principal developer of phonology and inventor of morphophonology, defined phoneme, a founder of the Prague School of

structural linguistics Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating Semiotics, semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other element ...

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* Dmitry Ushakov, author of the academic '' Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language''

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* Matrena Vakhrusheva, linguist and philologist, wrote the first Mansi-Russian dictionary and a pioneer in the development of Mansi literature and orthography for the

Mansi language The Mansi languages are spoken by the Mansi people in Russia along the Ob River and its tributaries, in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Sverdlovsk Oblast. Traditionally considered a single language, they constitute a branch of the Ural ...

* Max Vasmer, leading Indo-European, Finno-Ugric and

Turkic Turkic may refer to: * anything related to the country of Turkey * Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages ** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation) ** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language * ...

etymologist, author of the ' * Viktor Vinogradov, linguist and philologist, founder of the Russian Language Institute * Alexander Vostokov, coined the term ''

'', discovered '' Ostromir Gospel'' (the most ancient East Slavic book), pioneer researcher of the

Russian grammar Russian grammar employs an Indo-European inflexional structure, with considerable adaptation. Russian has a highly inflectional morphology, particularly in nominals (nouns, pronouns, adjectives and numerals). Russian literary syntax is a combina ...

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* Andrey Zaliznyak, author of the comprehensive systematic description of Russian inflection, prominent researcher of the Old Novgorod dialect and birch bark documents, proved the authenticity of the '' Tale of Igor's Campaign'' *

L. L. Zamenhof L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 185914 April 1917) was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof first dev ...

, inventor of

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

, the most widely spoken constructed

international auxiliary language An international auxiliary language (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from all different nations, who do not share a common first language. An auxiliary language is primaril ...

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