The works and activities of R. I. Avanesov, a prominent Russian dialectologist, historian of the Russian language, organizer of many useful scientific endeavors, teacher of more than one generation of Russian scientists, have been repeatedly evaluated by contemporaries throughout the XX century. And the scientist himself, who also has a very refined writing style, told a lot about himself in the memoirs of his mentors. "My interest in the history of the Russian language," he wrote in the 1970s, " in Russian dialectology, in descriptive and historical phonetics of the Russian language, in orthoepy, phonology, and spelling theory was developed by my wonderful teachers. And if in these areas of the science of the Russian language I managed to create something and train my own students working in the same field, then I owe this mainly to two remarkable Russian people and major Russian scientists-Dmitry Nikolaevich Ushakov and Afanasy Matveyevich Selishchev" (cit. ed.: Stepanov Yu. S. On the 75th anniversary of the birth of Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Ruben Ivanovich Avanesov // Izvestiya AN SSSR. Literature and Language Series, vol. 36, No. 1, 1977, p. 91).
R. I. Avanesov lived a long and difficult life, having passed through many cataclysms of the history of the fatherland, but remained true to his own
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your vocation. Our contemporaries, and perhaps our descendants, have yet to put together the legacy of the scientist, make a commentary worthy of his work, find archives and those grains of his linguistic talent that are scattered in numerous public and private collections. It is about them (i.e., using these new data) that we will discuss in our short biographical sketch.
Ruben Ivanovich Avanesov was born in Shusha (Nagorny Karabakh) in Azerbaijan on February 1 (14), 1902. For some time he studied at the famous Lazarev Institute of Foreign Languages, and after its closure he graduated in 1919. Soviet Labor School. He received further edu ...
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