Mark Konstantinovich Azadovsky (russian: Марк Константи́нович Азадо́вский; 18 December 1888 in Irkutsk – 24 November 1954 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Soviet scholar of folk-tales and Russian literature. As the head of the Folklore department at Leningrad State University during Stalin's anticosmopolitan campaigns of 1948-1953, he was denounced and fired along with

Boris Eikhenbaum Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum ( rus, Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум, p=ɨjxʲɪnˈbaʊm; 16 October 1886 – 2 November 1959) was a Russian Empire and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a repres ...

, Viktor Zhirmunsky, and Grigory Gukovsky. Their scholarly work was expunged from literary journals and their names erased from all indices, footnotes, and bibliographies. After his expulsion from

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

, Azadovsky began to suffer heart trouble, complications of which led to his death in 1954.Egorov, Boris. "From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism." Journal of Cold War Studies, Winter 200

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Azadovskii, Mark 1888 births 1954 deaths Writers from Irkutsk People from Irkutsk Governorate Tomsk State University faculty Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Ethnographers from the Russian Empire Soviet ethnographers Soviet folklorists Soviet literary historians Soviet male writers