Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh (, born 1 April 1963,

Izhevsk Izhevsk or Ijevsk (, ; , or ) is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It is the 21st-largest city in Russia, and the most populous in Udmurtia, with over 600,000 ...

, USSR) is a Russian ethnographer,

ethnologist Ethnology (from the , meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). Scien ...

ethnohistorian Ethnohistory is the study of cultures and indigenous peoples customs by examining historical records as well as other sources of information on their lives and history. It is also the study of the history of various ethnic groups that may or may ...

, Finno-Ugrist and

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. Doctor of Historical Sciences (1992), corresponding member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

(2011). Napolskikh was based at the Udmurt State University until 2015, then moved to

Kazan Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...

(joining the Khalikov Institute of Archaeology), then joined the staff of the RANEPA in Moscow. He has published extensively on early Finno-Ugric loanwords from the

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Euro ...

and Proto-Indo-Iranian languages. Among his better known theories is the existence of a distinct Balto-Slavic group on the Middle Volga that influenced the early

Permic languages The Permic or Permian languages are a branch of the Uralic language family. They are spoken in several regions to the west of the Ural Mountains within the Russian Federation. The total number of speakers is around 950,000, of which around 550,0 ...

.Напольских В. В. Балто-славянский языковой компонент в Нижнем Прикамье в сер. I тыс. н. э // Славяноведение. — 2006. — № 2. — С. 3−19. He has served on the editorial board of the journal ''

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia ''Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia'' () is a bilingual peer-reviewed academic journal covering anthropological and archaeological studies on Eurasia. It was established in 2000 by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of S ...

''.

References

Bibliography

The works of Vladimir Napolskih in the Internet
// Udmurtology
Earth-Diver Myth (А812) in northern Eurasia and North America: twenty years later

On the literary sources of M. G. Khudiakov’s ''Song of Udmurt Heroes''

Review on: ''Eberhard Winkler'', Udmurt, München 2001 (Languages of the World. Materials 212). 85 pp.

Uralic Numerals: is the evolution of numeral system reconstructable? (Reading new Václav Blažek’s book on numerals in Eurasia)
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