Lev Zhirkov

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Lev Ivanovich Zhirkov (Russian: Лев Иванович Жирков; 19 March 1885, Moscow – 4 December 1963, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian philologist, specializing in Persian and Caucasian languages,^[1] and Esperantist.^[2]