About Dmitry Ushakov
Lived 1873 – 1942 (aged 69). Dmitry Ushakov was a Russian lexicographer, linguist, dialectologist and grammarian.
Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov (; 24 January 1873 – 17 April 1942) was a Russian philologist and lexicographer.
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).
Ushakov died in Tashkent, where he had been evacuated to during World War II. His work on a definitive explanatory dictionary of the Russian language was continued by Sergei Ozhegov.
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Russian philologist (1873–1942)
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Dmitry Ushakov was born on 12 January 1873 in Moscow.
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Dmitry Ushakov died on 17 April 1942 in Tashkent.
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Dmitry Ushakov was a lexicographer, linguist, dialectologist and grammarian.
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Dmitry Ushakov was Russian.
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