Valentin Aleksandrovich Avrorin (December 23 1907,

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- February 26 1977,

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) was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the

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and an expert in languages. He was born in

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to a family of teachers. He was outstanding in the sphere of

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, and was one of the active creators of the Nanai written language. In 1925 Avrorin graduated from one of the Tambov schools.

Biography

In 1930, graduated from the Faculty of History and Ethnology of the Saint Petersburg State University. In 1956, defended PhD in Philology. Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities,

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, the first

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of the faculty. June 26, 1964 elected a corresponding member of the

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