Dmitry Ushakov

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Dmitry Ushakov
Дмитрий Ушаков
Born	Дмитрий Николаевич Ушаков (1873-01-24)24 January 1873 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	17 April 1942(1942-04-17) (aged 69) Tashkent, Soviet Union
Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Filipp Fortunatov

Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Ушаков; 24 January 1873 – 17 April 1942) was a Russian philologist and lexicographer.^[1]

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).^[1]

He influenced his student, Grigoriy Vinokur, who dedicated his book The Russian Language: A Brief History to him.^[2]

Ushakov died in Tashkent, where he had been evacuated to during World War II.^[1] His work on a definitive explanatory dictionary of the Russian language was continued by Sergei Ozhegov.