Yevgeny Polivanov | |
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| Born | 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1891 Smolensk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 January 1938 (aged 46) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Linguist |
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1891 – 25 January 1938) was a Soviet linguist, orientalist, and polyglot who wrote major works on the Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek, and Dungan languages and on theoretical linguistics and poetics.