Olena Kurylo

Olena Kurylo (7 October 1890 – 1946) was a Ukrainian linguist and specialized in Ukrainian dialects and folklore. She helped in codifying the orthography in 1928-1929. Her contributions in Ukraine linguistics include both theoretical as well as practical. She was the author of textbooks in Ukrainian language, and compiled the Ukrainian scientific terminology.

Biography Born as Olena Borysivna Kurylo in a Jewish family on 7 October 1890 in Slonim, Grodno Region in Belarus, Russian Empire, Olena Kurylo studied philosophy at the university of Königsberg.

In the early 1930s, she sought refuge in Moscow and started teaching there until her arrest in 1937. She was later released and was allowed to stay in the northern part of Russia, where she died in 1946.