Nikolai Abramovich Rogov (, 1825 — 5 August 1905) was a Russian

ethnographer Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

and

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 strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

, a researcher of

Komi-Permyak language Komi-Permyak (, , or , ), also known as Permyak, is one of two Permic varieties in the Uralic language family that form a pluricentric language, the other being Komi-Zyryan. Udmurt is another Permic language spoken outside of the region and ...

. He is known as the author of the first and one of the most complete dictionaries of that language. The dictionary contains about 13,000 words. Nikolai Rogov was born in 1825 in Sredne-Yegvinskoye settlement of

Perm Governorate Perm Governorate (), also known as the Governorate of Perm, was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR from 1781 to 1923. It was located on both slopes of the Ural Mountains, and its admi ...

in serf family. He studied in the Saint-Petersburg School of Agriculture, Mining and Metallurgical Sciences. Since 1850 he worked as a forester in

Stroganovs The Stroganov family (Russian: Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы; French: Stroganoff) emerged as a preeminent Russian noble family renowned for their roles as merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. By the reign of Iv ...

' estate. Later he was appointed manager of Kyn Factory ( Кыновский завод) in

Kungursky Uyezd Kungursky Uyezd () was an administrative division of Perm Governorate, Russian Empire, which existed in 1781-1921. Its administrative center was the town of Kungur. Area: 11,372.6 km2. Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census o ...

( Кунгурский уезд). There, in 1864, he established Kyn Co-operative Society, the first private co-operative society in Russia.N. A. Rogov.
— Outstanding public figures and natives of Perm Governorate. Since 1849 Rogov worked on the creation of "Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary", which was published in

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in 1869. The dictionary included about 13,000 words of Inva and Nerdva dialects of Komi-Permyak language. In 2007 the dictionary was republished by Komy-Permyak Publishing House. A historian

Aleksandr Dmitriyev Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dmitriyev (; born in Leningrad on 19 January 1935), PAU, is a Russian conductor of orchestral and choral music and opera. He has been director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Karel Autonomous Republic, and Principal Condu ...

( Александр Дмитриев) in "Old times of Perm" reported about Rogov as follows:''A. Dmitriyev.'' Old times of Perm. Issue 1. Chapter 2. The degree of cultural development of ancient Perm dwellers according to excavations data. The skeptics of Biarmia.
Nikolai Rogov died on 5 August 1905.

Publications

* Experience of Grammatics of Permyak language. — Saint-Petersburg, 1860. * Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary. — Saint-Petersburg, 1869. * a number of articles in Perm Governorate News ( Пермские губернские ведомости).

References

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