200px, Dmitri Tsvetkov Dmitri Tsvetkov (''Дмитрий Цветков'') (30 August 1890 in Krakolye – 1930) was a

Votic Votic or Votian (, ) , is a Finnic language spoken by the Vots of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye (now part of Ust-Luga) and Luzhitsy, two villages in Kingiseppsky District in ...

teacher and linguist. He was the second child of Pavel Grigorevich and Agafia Illarionovna. From 1914 to 1916 he studied at

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High School, and after that worked as Russian language teacher in Venkyul.Vatland.ru - Немного расскажу о води
''(Russian)'' He studied at the

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and was one of the few Votes to have ever attended and graduated from university. After that he returned to his home village and worked there as a teacher. During this time he also developed grammar for the Votic language and translated

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's children's story ''Vanka'' into Votic. He also collected some ethnographic material about Votic customs and traditions. His other works include a Cyrillic alphabet for Votic and a dictionary of the Krakolye dialect. His grammar book was published in 2004, and is currently the only Votic language textbook in use.Vađđamaa
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1890 births 1930 deaths People from Kingiseppsky District People from Yamburgsky Uyezd Votians University of Tartu alumni {{Russia-bio-stub