Voroshil Levonovich Gukasyan (1932–1986) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

linguist, caucasologist and specialist in

Udi language The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to cur ...

and

Caucasian Albania Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus: mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are ''Aghwank'' and ''Aluank'', among ...

n inscriptions. He was born in the village

Nij, Azerbaijan Nij (also known as Nidzh; az, Nic; Udi: ''НыъжӀ'' or ''НиъжӀ'') is a town in the Qabala District of Azerbaijan, located forty kilometers south-west of Qabala. It's one of the world's few settlements of Udi people. It has a population of ...

and was

Udi Udi may refer to: Places * Udi, Enugu, a local government areas and city in Nigeria * Udi, a place in the Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, India People * Udi Gal (born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor * Udi Vaks (born 1979), Israeli Olympic judoka ...

by ethnicity. He worked at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1965 he defended his thesis on the phonetic and morphological features of the Udi "Nij" dialect. His thesis defense was held at the Philological Faculty of

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

. The head of the research project was Jeyranishvili (Udi from

Zinobiani Zinobiani (), formerly Oktomberi (, between 1938 and 2010) is a village in Georgia. It is located in eastern Georgia, in the Qvareli Municipality of the Kakheti region. It has been one of the main places of compact residence of the Udis since 19 ...

). In 1973 Gukasyan became a Doctor of Philology, defended at the Institute of Linguistics of the Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences study on "The relationship of Azeri and Udi languages". Of particular note is his release in 1974 of the ''Udi-Azerbaijani-Russian Dictionary'', which remains today the only large body of vocabulary of both modern Udi languages,"The only true dictionary of the language", Nij and Vartashen dialects. He is also author of many articles on

. Many of his works are signed "G.Voroshil". He is buried in the village of

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gukasyan, Voroshil 1932 births 1986 deaths People from Qabala District Udi people Linguists from the Soviet Union 20th-century linguists Linguists from Azerbaijan 20th-century Azerbaijani historians