This list of Russian linguists and philologists includes notable linguists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.

Contents

• A
• B
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• Z
• See also
• References

A

• Vasily Abaev , prominent researcher of Iranian languages
• Solomon Adlivankin , Soviet linguist, the founder of Perm derivatology school, took part in compiling Akchim dialect dictionary
• Vladimir Admoni , linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, worked on the theory of grammar, historic and modern German syntax, defended Joseph Brodsky in court in 1964
• Alexander Afanasyev , leading Russian folklorist, recorded and published over 600 Russian fairy tales, by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the world

  

B

• Ivan Baudouin de Courtenay , co-inventor of the concept of phoneme and the systematic treatment of alternations, pioneer of synchronic analysis and mathematical linguistics
• Victor Bayda , linguist specializing in Celtic and Germanic languages
• Alexander Belskiy , Soviet specialist in literary criticism, famous Anglicist, founder of philological faculty at Perm State University, founder of Foreign literature Department at PSU
• Otto von Böhtlingk , prominent Indologist and Sanskrit grammarian
• Fyodor Buslaev , philologist and folklorist, representative of the Mythological school of comparative literature
• Yakov Brandt , Sinologist

D

• Vladimir Dal , greatest Russian language lexicographer of the 19th century, folklorist and turkologist, author of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language
• Vladimir Dybo , a main figure in the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics

E

• Tamara Erofeyeva , leader of school «Sociolinguistic study of urban language», ^[1] head of Socio- and Psycholinguistics school ^[2] at Department of General and Slavonic linguistics ^[3] at Perm State National Research University, Honorary Figure of Russian Higher Education

G

• Dmitry Gerasimov , medieval translator, diplomat and philologist, correspondent of European Renaissance scholars

  

H

• Eugene Helimski , a long-range comparative linguist

I

• Vladislav Illich-Svitych , founder of Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics
• Vyacheslav Ivanov , founder of glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism

J

• Roman Jakobson , literary theorist and preeminent linguist of the 20th century, a founder of phonology, made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, author of Jackobson's Communication Model

K

• Pyotr Kafarov , prominent sinologist, developed the cyrillization of Chinese, discovered and published many invaluable manuscripts, including The Secret History of the Mongols

  

• Alexander Kibrik , eminent typologist and caucasologist
• Andrej Kibrik , specialist in linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and Athabaskan languages
• Valeriya Kirpichenko , linguist, translator, specialist in Arabic literature, professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Yuri Knorozov , linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, deciphered the ancient Maya script, proposed a decipherment for the Indus script
• Rimma Komina , Soviet and Russian specialist in literary criticism, the Dean of philological faculty at Perm State University (1977–1982)
• Andrey Korsakov , eminent linguist and language philosopher, specialised in the Germanic languages and English grammar, suggested philosophic reasoning for the parts of speech system and philosophic understanding of syntactic categories
• Margarita Kozhina , Soviet and Russian linguist, specialist in stylistics, the founder of Perm school of functional stylistics
• Nikolay Krushevsky , co-inventor of the concept of phoneme and the systematic treatment of alternations

L

• Gerasim Lebedev , pioneer of Indology, introduced Bengali script typing to Europe, founded the first European-style drama theater in India
• Dmitry Likhachov , major 20th century expert on Old East Slavic language and literature
• Mikhail Lomonosov , polymath scientist and artist, wrote a grammar that reformed Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with vernacular tongue
• Nikolay Lvov , polymath artist and scientist, compiled the first significant collection of Russian folk songs, published epic bylinas

  

M

• Sergey Malov , turkologist, classified the Turkic alphabets, deciphered ancient Orkhon script
• Nicholas Marr , put forth a pseudo-linguistic Japhetic theory on the origin of language
• Igor Melchuk , structural linguist, author of Meaning-Text Theory
• Anatoly Moskvin , philologist and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
• Leonid Murzin , Soviet and Russian linguist, the head of Perm derivatology school; he founded the Institute of dynamic linguistics
• Vladimir Müller , linguist and lexicographer, author of popular English–Russian dictionary

N

• Sergei Nikolaev , a long-range comparative linguist
• Semyon Novgorodov , Yakut politician and linguist, creator of written Yakut language (Sakha scripts)

O

• Sergei Ozhegov , author of the most widely used explanatory dictionary of Russian language

P

• Ilia Peiros , a long-range comparative linguist known for his work on Austric languages
• Stephan of Perm , 14th century missionary, converted Komi Permyaks to Christianity and invented the Old Permic script
• Yevgeny Polivanov , linguist, orientalist and polyglot, developed the cyrillization of Japanese
• Nicholas Poppe , prominent Altaic languages researcher
• Vladimir Propp , formalist scholar, major researcher of folk tales and mythology
• Tatyana Proskuryakova , Mayanist scholarand archaeologist, deciphered the ancient Maya script

R

• George de Roerich , major 20th century Tibetologist

S

• Franz Anton Schiefner , prominent tibetologist, Finnic and Caucasus languages researcher
• Isaac Jacob Schmidt , first researcher of Mongolian
• Aleksey Shakhmatov , founder of textology, prepared major 20th century reforms of Russian orthography, pioneered the systematic research of Old Russian and medieval Russian literature
• Lev Shcherba , phonetist and phonologist, author of the glokaya kuzdra phrase
• Fyodor Shcherbatskoy , Indologist, initiated the scholarly study of Buddhist philosophy in the West
• Vitaly Shevoroshkin , a long-range comparative linguists
• Ivan Snegiryov , early collector of Russian proverbs and researcher of lubok prints
• Izmail Sreznevsky , leading 19th century Slavist, published Codex Zographensis , Codex Marianus and Kiev Fragments
• Georgiy Starostin , son of Sergei Starostin and long-range comparative linguistic researcher
• Sergei Starostin , prominent supporter of Altaic languages theory, proposed Dené–Caucasian languages macrofamily, reconstructed a number of Eurasian proto-languages

T

• Vasily Tatischev , geographer, ethnographer and historian, compiled the first encyclopedic dictionary of Russian
• Chukchi Tenevil , reindeer herder who created a writing system for the Chukchi language
• Nikolai Trubetzkoy , principal developer of phonology and inventor of morphophonology, defined phoneme, a founder of the Prague School of structural linguistics

U

• Dmitry Ushakov , author of the academic Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language

V

• Matrena Vakhrusheva , linguist and philologist, wrote the first Mansi-Russian dictionary and a pioneer in the development of Mansi literature and orthography for the Mansi language
• Max Vasmer , leading Indo-European, Finno-Ugric and Turkic etymologist, author of the 'Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language  [ ru ]
• Viktor Vinogradov , linguist and philologist, founder of the Russian Language Institute
• Alexander Vostokov , coined the term Old Church Slavonic , discovered Ostromir Gospel (the most ancient East Slavic book), pioneer researcher of the Russian grammar

Z

• Andrey Zaliznyak , author of the comprehensive systematic description of Russian inflection, prominent researcher of the Old Novgorod dialect and birch bark documents, proved the authenticity of the Tale of Igor's Campaign
• L. L. Zamenhof , inventor of Esperanto, the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language

  

See also

• List of linguists
• List of Russian scientists
• List of Russian historians
• Linguistics of the Soviet Union
• Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics
• Russian language
• Russian literature
• Science and technology in Russia

References