In memory of the scientist :: DURNOVO Nikolay Nikolaevich

Nikolay Nikolaevich Durnovo (04.11.1876, Moscow, Russia - 27.10.1937) - philologist-slavist. Academician (1928), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1924), Master of Russian Language and Literature (1916), Professor (1918).

— Graduated from the Imperial Moscow University (1899).
— In 1904-1910 and since 1915 - Assistant Professor of Moscow, in 1910-1915 - Assistant Professor of the Imperial Kharkov University, in 1918-1921 - Professor of the Saratov University.
— In 1924-1927 - lived and worked in Czechoslovakia.
— In 1928-1929 - Employee of the Institute of Belarusian Culture and the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the pedagogical faculty of the Belarusian State University.
— In 1929 - was deprived of the title of academician of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. In 1933 - arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 1937 - re-convicted and sentenced to exceptional punishment. In 1938 - was expelled (posthumously) from the corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Rehabilitated in 1964. Restored to the rank of academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR in 1978, to the rank of corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR - in 1990.

One of the pioneers of linguistic and geographical study of East Slavic languages. Together with D.N. Ushakov and N.N. Sokolov created a map of Russian dialects (published in 1915 as “Experience of a dialectological map of the Russian language in Europe with an essay on Russian dialectology”), which presents the classification of Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian dialects, substantiates the theoretical principles of the linguistic geography of the early 20th century The author of "Grammar Dictionary" (1924) - the first Russian dictionary of linguistic terms. He studied the history of the Russian language and its dialects.

Author of about 190 scientific papers, including 3 monographs.

Major papers:

Краткий очерк русской диалектологии. Харьков, 1914.
Очерк истории русского языка. М. ; Л., 1924.
Введение в историю русского языка. М., 1969.
Избранные работы по истории рус- ского языка. М., 2000.