Yuri Otkupshchikov

Yuri Otkupshchikov (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Откупщиков; 29 August 1924, Kazan – 25 September 2010, St. Petersburg; also spelled Otkupscikov, Otkupsikov, Otkupschikov, Otkupschtschikov) was a Soviet and Russian philologist and linguist. For more than 50 years, he taught at the St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology.