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Max Vasmer
Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)
Sergey Starostin
Russian linguist and philologist (1953–2005)
Igor M. Diakonoff
Russian historian and linguist (1915-1999)
Vasily Abaev
Ossetian Soviet linguist (1900-2001)
Andrey Zaliznyak
Russian linguist (1935-2017)
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet linguist (1929-2017)
Yevgeny Polivanov
Soviet linguist and orientalist (1891–1938)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Innocent of Alaska
Russian bishop and saint
Viktor Vinogradov
Soviet academic (1894-1969)
Alexander Vostokov
Russian philologist (1781-1864)
Viktor Zhirmunsky
Russian literary historian, linguist (1891-1971)
Vladislav Illich-Svitych
Soviet paleolinguist (1934–1966)
Nikolai Ashmarin
Russian linguist (1870–1933)
Aleksandra Antonova
Kildin Sámi teacher, writer, poet, translator from the Soviet Union and Russia (1932– 2014)
Anna Dybo
Russian linguist
Valentin Voloshinov
Russian linguist (1895–1936)
Aharon Dolgopolsky
Russian-Israeli linguist (1930-2012)
Alexander Hangerli
Prince of Moldavia
Vladimir Plungyan
Russian linguist
Igor Mel'čuk
Russian-Canadian linguist and translation scholar
Boris Vladimirtsov
Russian scientist (1884–1931)
Moscow linguistic circle
group of social scientists in semiotics
Alexandra Aikhenvald
linguist
Aleksandr Dulichenko
Estonian-Russian linguist (1941-2026)
Mirfatıyx Zäkief
Russian turkologist (1928–2023)
Vladimir Uspensky
Soviet and Russian mathematician, linguist, writer
Boris Uspenskij
Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, historian of culture
Eugene Helimski
Russian linguist (1950–2007)
Sergei Yakhontov
linguist (1926-2018)
Nikolay Dmitriyev
Russian Orientalist (1898–1954)
Natalia O'Shea
Russian musician and linguist
Sariya Mirzhanova
Soviet Bashkiria and Russian linguist, Turkologist (1924–2000)
Magomet Isayev
Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist (1928–2011)
Firdaus Khisamitdinova
Russian Bashkir politician (1950–2023)
Vladimir Dybo
Russian linguist
Anatoly Liberman
Russian-American writer
Yevgeny Chelyshev
Russian Indologist
Lidia Vassikova
philologist, professor (1927-2012)
Alexander Mervart
Russian indologist, ethnographer, linguist and the first Russian dravidologist (1884–1932)
Natalia Alieva
Russian linguist (1931-2015)
Andrej Kibrik
Russian linguist
Yulia Galyamina
Russian politician, linguist
Galina Yershova
Soviet and Russian academic
Alexander Lubotsky
Russian linguist
Nochum Shtif
Yiddish writer, translator, linguist (1897–1933)
Iosef Mikhailovich Oranski
Russian linguist
Yuri Otkupshchikov
Soviet linguist (1924-2010)
Ose Cherapon'
Moksha linguist, developed Moksha grammar.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Dyakonov
Soviet historian and archaeologist (1907-1954)
Elena Berezovich
Russian linguist
Mehmet Muslimov
Russian linguist
Sergey Nikolaev
Russian linguist who has also published on Lepidoptera
Epiphanius Slavinetsky
Soviet linguist
Maksim Krongauz
Russian linguist
Valentin Vydrin
Russian africanist
Vladimir Napolskikh
Russian Finno-Ugrist
Mikhail Alekseyev
Russian linguist
Svetlana Burlak
Russian linguist
Max Seligsohn
Russian linguist