Lydia Petrovna Vasikova (May 28, 1927 – October 28, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian

Finno-Ugric Finno-Ugric () is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic languages, Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in ...

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, the first among Mari women, who became a Doctor of Science (1985), a

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(1986), an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1995), and a holder of the Order of the Cross of the Land of Mary (Estonia)..

Biography

She was born on May 28, 1927, in the village of Pernyangashi of the Paygusovsky rural settlement of the Gornomariysky District of the

Mari ASSR The Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Mari ASSR) ( Mari: Марий Автоном Совет Социализм Республик, ''Mariy Avtonom Sovet Sotsializm Respublik'') was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR, succeeding ...

. * 1946–1950 – She studied at the department of the Mari language of the Faculty of History and Philology of the Mari State Institute named after N. K. Krupskaya. * 1951–1954 – She studied at the graduate school of the University of Tartu (Estonia) under the supervision of academician

Paul Ariste Paul Ariste (3 February 1905 – 2 February 1990) was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages (especially Estonian and Votic), Yiddish and Baltic Romani language. He was born as Paul Berg, in Rääbise, V ...

. * She worked at the Mari Pedagogical Institute (taught the Mari language) and at the Department of Philology of the Estonian Agricultural Academy in

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, and then again at the Department of Russian Language at the Mari Pedagogical Institute. * 1984 – She defended her doctoral dissertation at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

on the topic of "Compound sentences in the modern Mari literary language in comparison with other types of sentences."Васикова, Лидия Петровна. (1983)
Сложносочиненные предложения в современном марийском литературном языке в сравнении с другими типами предложений
Автореферат дисс. на соискание степени доктора филол.наук. — Йошкар-Ола, 1983. — 371с. * Since 1984, she worked at the Mari State University at the Department of Russian and General Linguistics as a professor, and as head of the department. She was also the head of a research laboratory. * 1986 – She became a professor at the Mari State University, the first among Mari women. On October 28, 2012, she died in an

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on the 14th kilometer of the

Yoshkar-Ola Yoshkar-Ola (Mari language, Mari and ) is the capital city of Mari El, Russia. Yoshkar-Ola means “red city” in Meadow Mari language, Mari and was formerly known as Tsarevokokshaysk () before 1919, as Krasnokokshaysk () between 1919 and 1927 ...

– Kozmodemyansk road.Первая женщина-доктор наук в Марий Эл погибла в ДТП под Йошкар-Олой
/ref> Vasikova is the author of over 193 scientific publications, including 10 monographs in the field of Russian and general linguistics, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Mari linguistics. Her textbooks on the Mari and Russian languages are used by university and school teachers. She was a member of the specialized council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations in the Finno-Ugric languages. Vasikova was the author of a spelling dictionary for the

Hill Mari language Hill Mari or Western Mari (, ''kyryk mary'') is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari, in which Hill Mari forms a Western Mari group with the former. Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and ...

and the monographs "Basic syntax of a simple sentence in the Russian language" (1980) and "Complex syntax in the modern Mari literary language (1982)."

Awards and recognition

* Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." * Honored Scientist of the Mari ASSR (1988) * Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1995)Указ Президента РФ от 28 February 1995 N 218 О присвоении почетных званий Российской Федерации
/ref> * Order of the Cross of the Land of Mary, 5th Class (Estonia, February 2, 2001)Teenetemärkide kavalerid: Lidija Vassikova
/ref> * Certificate of Merit of the Republic of Mari El (2002)

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Памяти Лидии Петровны Васиковой
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