List of Russian linguists and philologists

This list of Russian linguists and philologists includes the famous linguists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.

Philologist Dmitry Likhachyov with a text in Old East Slavic on the background of the Russian Literature Institute (Russian postage stamp).

Alphabetical list

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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, author of Jackobson's Communication Model

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  • Sergey Malov, turkologist, classified the Turkic alphabets, deciphered ancient Orkhon script
  • Nicholas Marr, put forth a pseudo-linguistic Japhetic theory on the origin of language
  • 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, 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 Ozhegov, author of the most widely used explanatory dictionary of Russian language

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  • Dmitry Ushakov, author of the academic Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language

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See also

References

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