This list of

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

s and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined ...

s includes notable linguists from the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

, the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

, the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...

and other predecessor states of Russia.

Alphabetical list

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Vasily Abaev Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev ( os, Абайты Иваны фырт Васо; russian: Василий Иванович Абаев, also transliterated as Abayev and Abayti; 15 December 1900 – 18 March 2001) was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet ...

, prominent researcher of

Iranian languages The Iranian languages or 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 languages are groupe ...

* Solomon Adlivankin, Soviet linguist, the founder of Perm derivatology school, took part in compiling Akchim dialect dictionary * Vladimir Admoni, 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, recorded and published over 600 Russian fairy tales, 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 In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-wes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language *Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Foo ...

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 fo ...

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, ...

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. ...

, famous Anglicist, founder of philological faculty at

Perm State University Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University; russian: Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, , romanised: , ) or PSU, PSNRU (russian: ПГУ, , ...

, founder of Foreign literature Department at PSU * Otto von Böhtlingk, prominent

Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') i ...

and Sanskrit grammarian * Fyodor Buslaev, philologist and folklorist, representative of the Mythological school of comparative literature * Yakov Brandt, Sinologist

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* Vladimir Dal, greatest

Russian language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living E ...

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, leader of school « Sociolinguistic study of urban language», head of Socio- and Psycholinguistics 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 The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...

scholars

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Eugene Helimski Eugene Arnoľdovič Helimski (sometimes also spelled Eugene Khelimski, Russian: Евге́ний Арно́льдович Хели́мский; 15 March 1950 in Odessa, USSR – 25 December 2007 in Hamburg, Germany) was a Soviet and Russian l ...

, 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 The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Du ...

consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced w ...

ism

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* Roman Jakobson, literary theorist and preeminent linguist of the 20th century, a founder of

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

, made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, author of Jackobson's Communication Model

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Pyotr Kafarov Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (Pre-reform Russian: Петръ Ива́новичъ Кафа́ровъ; Modern Russian: Пётр Ива́нович Кафа́ров), also known by his monastic name Palladius (Pre-reform Russian: Палла́дій; Mo ...

, prominent sinologist, 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 for U ...

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

* Evgeny Kazartsev, prominent slavist, germanist, developed the comparative metric and prosody * Alexander Kibrik, eminent typologist and caucasologist * Andrej Kibrik, specialist in linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and

Athabaskan languages Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific C ...

* Valeriya Kirpichenko, linguist, translator, specialist in Arabic literature, professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

* Yuri Knorozov, linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, deciphered the ancient

Maya script Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered. The earliest inscriptions found which ...

, proposed a decipherment for the Indus script * Rimma Komina, Soviet and Russian specialist in

, the Dean of philological faculty at

(1977–1982) * Andrey Korsakov, eminent

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 The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, ...

and

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ...

grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes doma ...

, suggested philosophic reasoning for the

parts of speech In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are as ...

system and philosophic understanding of syntactic categories * Margarita Kozhina, 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

and the systematic treatment of alternations

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Gerasim Lebedev Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev (russian: Гера́сим Степа́нович Ле́бедев; 1749 – July 27, 1817), also spelled Herasim Steppanovich Lebedeff ( bn, হেরাসিম স্তেপানোভিচ লেবেদ� ...

, pioneer of

Indology Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') i ...

, introduced

Bengali script Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

typing to Europe, founded the first European-style drama

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...

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, polymath scientist and artist, wrote a

that reformed Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with vernacular tongue *

Nikolay Lvov Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov (May 4, 1753 – December 21, 1803) was a Russian artist of the Age of Enlightenment. Lvov, an amateur of Rurikid lineage, was a polymathBohlman, p. 45. who contributed to geology, history, graphic arts and poetry, ...

, 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 a ...

'' on the origin of language * Igor Melchuk, structural linguist, author of Meaning-Text Theory *

Anatoly Moskvin Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin ( rus, links=no, Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин, translit=Anatolj Jur'evič Moskvin; born 1 September 1966) is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the ...

, 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 Nikolaev, a long-range comparative linguist *

Semyon Novgorodov Semyon Andreyevich Novgorodov ( sah, Семен Андреевич Новгородов, ''Semen Andreyevich Novgorodov'', the older orthography sah, Сэмэн Ноҕоруодап, ''Semen Noğoruodap'', russian: Семён Андреевич � ...

, Yakut politician and linguist, creator of written Yakut language (

Sakha scripts There are 4 stages in the history of Yakut writing systems: * until the early 1920s – writing based on the Cyrillic alphabet; * 1917–1929 – Novgorodov's writing system, which is based on the Latin alphabet; * 1929–1939 – a unified alpha ...

)

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

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Ilia Peiros Ilia Peiros (full name: Ilia Iosifovich Peiros, Илья Иосифович Пейрос; born 1948) is a Russian linguist who specializes in the historical linguistics of East Asia. Peiros is a well-known scholar in the Moscow School of Compa ...

, 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 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 The cyrillization of Japanese is the process of transliterating or transcribing the Japanese language into Cyrillic script in order to represent Japanese proper names or terms in various languages that use Cyrillic, as an aid to Japanese langu ...

* Nicholas Poppe, prominent

Altaic languages Altaic (; also called Transeurasian) is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. Speakers of these languages ar ...

researcher * Vladimir Propp, formalist scholar, major researcher of folk tales and

mythology 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 narra ...

* Tatyana Proskuryakova,

Mayanist A Mayanist ( es, mayista) is a scholar specialising in research and study of the Mesoamerican pre-Columbian Maya civilisation. This discipline should not be confused with Mayanism, a collection of New Age beliefs about the ancient Maya. May ...

scholarand archaeologist, deciphered the ancient

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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 who ha ...

, prominent tibetologist, Finnic and

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historica ...

languages researcher * Isaac Jacob Schmidt, first researcher of Mongolian * Aleksey Shakhmatov, 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 point in ...

, prepared major 20th century

reforms of Russian orthography The Russian orthography has been reformed officially and unofficially by changing the Russian alphabet over the course of the history of the Russian language. Several important reforms happened in the 18th–20th centuries. Early changes Ol ...

, pioneered the systematic research of Old Russian and medieval Russian literature * Lev Shcherba, phonetist and phonologist, author of the ''

glokaya kuzdra ''Glokaya kuzdra'' (russian: Глокая куздра) is a reference to a Russian language phrase constructed from non-existent words in a grammatically proper way, similar to the English language phrases using the pseudoword "gostak". It was ...

'' phrase * Fyodor Shcherbatskoy,

, initiated the scholarly study of

Buddhist Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...

philosophy in the West * Vitaly Shevoroshkin, a long-range comparative linguists * Ivan Snegiryov, early collector of Russian proverbs 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 Gospe ...

'', '' Codex Marianus'' and '' Kiev Fragments'' * Georgiy Starostin, son of Sergei Starostin and long-range comparative linguistic researcher * Sergei Starostin, prominent supporter of

theory, proposed Dené–Caucasian languages

macrofamily In historical linguistics, a macrofamily, also called a superfamily or phylum, is a proposed genetic relationship grouping together language families (also isolates) in a larger scale classification. Campbell, Lyle and Mixco, Mauricio J. (2007), ...

, reconstructed a number of Eurasian proto-languages

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Vasily Tatischev Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (russian: Васи́лий Ники́тич Тати́щев) (19 April 1686 – 15 July 1750) was a prominent Russian Imperial statesman, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, best remembered as the author of the f ...

, 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, etymologie ...

of Russian * Chukchi Tenevil, reindeer herder who created a writing system for the Chukchi language *

Nikolai Trubetzkoy Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy ( rus, Никола́й Серге́евич Трубецко́й, p=trʊbʲɪtsˈkoj; 16 April 1890 – 25 June 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague Schoo ...

, principal developer of

and inventor of

morphophonology Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes. Its chief focus is the sound changes that take place in morphemes ...

, defined

, 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 semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within t ...

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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 * Max Vasmer, leading

, Finno-Ugric and Turkic etymologist, author of the ' *

Viktor Vinogradov Viktor Vladimirovich Vinogradov (russian: Ви́ктор Влади́мирович Виногра́дов; – 4 October 1969) was a Soviet linguist and philologist who presided over Soviet linguistics after World War II. Life and career Vi ...

, linguist and philologist, founder of the Russian Language Institute * Alexander Vostokov, coined the term '' Old Church Slavonic'', discovered '' Ostromir Gospel'' (the most ancient East Slavic book), pioneer researcher of the Russian grammar

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* Andrey Zaliznyak, author of the comprehensive systematic description of Russian

inflection In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and ...

, prominent researcher of the Old Novgorod dialect and birch bark documents, proved the authenticity of the '' Tale of Igor's Campaign'' * L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto, the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language 1908-kl-t-zamenhof

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