Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov (russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Ушако́в; January 24, 1873 – April 17, 1942) was a Russian

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 as ...

and

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."Dmitry Ushakov"
He was the creator and chief editor (1935–1940) of the 4-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language with over 90,000 entries. He was also the creator of an orthographic dictionary of the Russian language (1934). He influenced his student,

Grigoriy Vinokur Grigoriy Osipovich Vinokur (17 November, 1896, Warsaw – 17 May 1947, Moscow) was a Russian linguist and literary historian. He was educated in Moscow. After a brief spell as an interpreter in Estonia and Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, L ...

, who dedicated his book ''The Russian Language: A Brief History'' to him. Ushakov died in

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, where he was evacuated during

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. His work on a definitive explanatory dictionary of the Russian language was continued by Sergei Ozhegov.

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External links

Searchable version of Dal's, Ushakov's and Ozhegov's dictionary
1873 births 1942 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Russian philologists Russian lexicographers Moscow State University alumni Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences {{Russia-linguist-stub