Dmitry Ushakov

Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Ушако́в; January 24, 1873 – April 17, 1942) was a Russian philologist and lexicographer.^[1]

He was the creator and chief editor (1935–1940) of the 4-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language with over 90,000 entries. He was also the creator of an orthographic dictionary of the Russian language (1934).^[1]

He influenced his student, Grigoriy Vinokur, who dedicated his book The Russian Language: A Brief History to him.^[2]

Ushakov died in Tashkent, where he had been evacuated to during World War II.^[1] His work on a definitive explanatory dictionary of the Russian language was continued by Sergei Ozhegov.

References

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Dmitry Ushakov" (in Russian)
^ Винокур, Григорий Осипович (2 April 1971). The Russian Language: A Brief History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-07944-0.

External links

Searchable version of Dal's, Ushakov's and Ozhegov's dictionary

[ppl-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Dmitry Ushakov" (in Russian)

[RL-2] Винокур, Григорий Осипович (2 April 1971). The Russian Language: A Brief History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-07944-0.

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