Category
page 1Linguists from the Soviet Union
Nikolai Marr
Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
Ğäbdelxäy Äxätef
Soviet Tatar linguist (1927-1986)
Paul Ariste
Estonian linguist (1905-1990)
Sergey Starostin
Russian linguist and philologist (1953–2005)
Vasily Abaev
Ossetian Soviet linguist (1900-2001)
Igor M. Diakonoff
Russian historian and linguist (1915-1999)
Andrey Zaliznyak
Russian linguist (1935-2017)
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet linguist (1929-2017)
Yevgeny Polivanov
Soviet linguist and orientalist (1891–1938)
Lev Shcherba
Russian and Soviet linguist (1880-1944)
Nicholas Poppe
Russian-American linguist (1897–1991)
Viktor Vinogradov
Soviet academic (1894-1969)
Bagrat Shinkuba
Abkhazian writer and politician (1917–2004)
Akaki Shanidze
Georgian linguist and philologist (1887–1987)
Viktor Zhirmunsky
Russian literary historian, linguist (1891-1971)
Arnold Chikobava
Georgian linguist (1898-1985)
Ernest Drezen
Russian Esperantist (1892-1937)
Vladislav Illich-Svitych
Soviet paleolinguist (1934–1966)
Larisa Bogoraz
Soviet dissident (1929–2004)
Stepan Malkhasyants
Armenian academic (1857-1947)
Hella Keem
Estonian folklorist and linguist (1915–1997)
Aharon Dolgopolsky
Russian-Israeli linguist (1930-2012)
Sergey Malov
Russian Turkologist (1880–1957)
Ivan Meshchaninov
Russian linguist and ethnographer (1883–1967)
Valentin Voloshinov
Russian linguist (1895–1936)
Semyon Novgorodov
Yakut politician and linguist (1892-1924)
Vasily Lytkin
Soviet linguist, poet and translator (1895-1981)
Vladimir Plungyan
Russian linguist
Giorgi Akhvlediani
Georgian linguist (1887-1973)
Nikolay Durnovo
Russian linguist and dialectologist (1876-1937)
Yevgeny Bokarev
Soviet linguist (1904–1971)
Mirfatıyx Zäkief
Russian turkologist (1928–2023)
Boris Uspenskij
Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, historian of culture
Kiyekbayev Zhalil G.
Turkologist, Doctor of Philology, Bashkir writer (1911-1968)
Mikhail Stepanovich Andreyev
Russian ethnographer and linguist (1873-1948)
Kasym Tynystanov
Kyrgyzstani poet
Juhan Peegel
Estonian writer and linguist (1919-2007)
Eugene Helimski
Russian linguist (1950–2007)
Natalia Shvedova
Russian lexicographer (1916–2009)
Valentin Avrorin
Russian language activist (1907–1977)
Firdaus Khisamitdinova
Russian Bashkir politician (1950–2023)
Alexander Freiman
Russian linguist (1879–1968)
Vladimir Admoni
Russian-Jewish and Soviet linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, doctor of philological Sciences (1909-1993)
Zarifa Budagova
Azerbaijani scholar (1929–1989)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky
Russian linguist (1892-1937)
Agniya Desnitskaya
Soviet linguist (1912–1992)
Vladimir Dybo
Russian linguist
Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin
Soviet linguist (1887-1964)
Lev Ivanovitch Jirkov
Soviet and Russian philologist, specializing in Persian and Caucasian language
Natalia Alieva
Russian linguist (1931-2015)
Vladimir Müller
Russian linguist and lexicographer (1880-1941)
Lidia Vassikova
philologist, professor (1927-2012)
Rouben Abrahamian
Armenian linguist (1881-1951)
Andrej Kibrik
Russian linguist
Samuil Bernstein
Soviet and Russian dialectologist (1911-1997)
Karl Aben
Estonian linguist and translator (1896-1976)
Sergey Nikolaev
Russian linguist who has also published on Lepidoptera
Ketevan Lomtatidze
Georgian linguist (1911-2007)
Shota Dzidziguri
Soviet linguist