Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin (; 27 September 1887 – 3 February 1964) was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

specialist of

Iranian languages The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian langu ...

, particularly Pamir languages.

Life

Zarubin was born in 1887.Paul Bergne The Birth of Tajikistan. National Identity and the Origins of the Republic. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. p. 143. He wrote dozens of books on Iranian languages and was the leading authority in the Soviet Union of the Pamir languages spoken in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast in the

Tajik SSR The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, also commonly known as Soviet Tajikistan, the Tajik SSR, TaSSR, or simply Tajikistan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1929 to 1991 in Central Asia. The Tajik Re ...

. He was a professor at

Leningrad University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU; ) is a public university, public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great, the uni ...

, a position he held until 1949, and was director of the Department of the Near East and Central Asia at the

Kunstkamera The Kunstkamera (, derived from German ''Kunstkammer'' lit. "art chamber") formally organized as the Russian Academy of Science's Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (, ''Muzey antropologii i etnografii imeni Petra Velikogo R ...

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

.Department of Central Asia, Kunstkamera
/ref> In the summer of 1914, Zarubin, together with a French Iranist Robert Gauthiot, traveled to the

Pamir Mountains The Pamir Mountains are a Mountain range, range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia. They are located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya ...

and conducted

linguistic Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

ethnographic Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

research. Over the coming decades, Zarubin continued to conduct linguistic,

folkloric Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also includes material ...

and ethnographic studies in the Pamirs and elsewhere in

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

. One of his greatest achievements was the 1926–30 Central Asian ethnological expedition on behalf of the Academy of Sciences. A large portion of the Pamir collection at the Kunstkamera's Department of the Near East and Central Asia was acquired during Zarubin's work in the Pamirs in 1914. Zarubin usually published his works under the named I. I. Zarubin. Zarubin died in 1964.

Selected bibliography

* , 1925. * S.S.S.R., 1926. * , 1926. * , 1927. * , 1927. * , 1927. * , 1927. * = , 1927. * = , 1928. * , 1930, no. 5. * . Leningrad: , 1930. * . Leningrad: , 1932. * . Publisher: Leningrad, 1932. co-written with Daniil Zatočnik. * Two Yazghulāmī Texts. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, 1936, vol. 8, no. 2/3, pp. 875–881. * , 1937. * , 1960. * , 1963. * . Donetsk, 1969. * , 1974. * , 1983. co-written with Vladimir Michajlovič Blinov and Ch P Neškov.

References

External links

Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin
- The Great Soviet Encyclopedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Zarubin, Ivan Linguists from the Soviet Union Iranologists Russian orientalists 1887 births 1964 deaths