Lev Shcherba

Lev Shcherba
Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба
1979 postal cover of the Soviet Union featuring portrait of Lev Shcherba.
Born	March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 Ihumen, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	December 26, 1944(1944-12-26) (aged 64) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Imperial University
Awards	Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Scientific career
Institutions	Leningrad State University
Doctoral advisor	Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Doctoral students	Sergey Ozhegov Lev Zinder Viktor Vinogradov

Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба, Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба; March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian Empire and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.