Boris Uspenskij

This article is about the Russian philologist and mythographer. For the Russian painter, see Boris Uspensky.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andreevich and the family name is Uspensky.
Boris Uspenskij
Бори́с Андре́евич Успе́нский
Born (1937-03-01) 1 March 1937 (age 87)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet Union (until 1991) / Russian (since 1991)
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forlinguist,
philologist,
semiotician,
historian of culture
Scientific career
Fieldslinguistics,
semiotics,
philology,
history of culture
InstitutionsNational Research University – Higher School of Economics,
Russian State University for the Humanities

Boris Andreevich Uspenskij (‹See Tfd›Russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Успе́нский) (born 1 March 1937, in Moscow) is a Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, historian of culture.