Nikolai Baskakov
Nikolai or Nikolay Baskakov may refer to: * Nikolai Baskakov (linguist) (1905–1995), Soviet linguist * (1905–1969), Soviet forester, Hero of Socialist Labour * (1903–1977), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler * Nikolai Baskakov (painter) (1918–1993), Soviet portrait artist {{hndis, Baskakov, Nikolai ...
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Nikolai Baskakov (linguist)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov (; 22 March 1905 – 26 August 1996) was a Soviet Turkologist, linguist, and ethnologist. He created a systematization model of the Turkic language family (Baskakov's classification), and studied Turkic-Russian contacts in the 10-11th centuries CE. During 64 years of scientific work (1930-1994), Baskakov published almost 640 works including 32 books. The main area of Baskakov's scientific interests was linguistics, but he also studied folklore and ethnography of the Turkic peoples, and also was a musician and composer. Life Baskakov was born in 1905 in Solvychegodsk in Vologda Governorate (now Arkhangelsk Oblast) in a large family of a district government official. His father came from a family banished in the beginning of the 19th century from Saint Petersburg to the Vologda province, and mother was a daughter of an official and a teacher. In a book about Russian surnames of Turkic origin (1979) Baskakov gives the following comment about his sur ...
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