Andrey Zaliznyak

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Andrey Zaliznyak
Андрей Зализняк
Zaliznyak in 2008
Born	(1935-04-29)29 April 1935 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	24 December 2017(2017-12-24) (aged 82) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Soviet Russian, Russian
Alma mater	Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, Sorbonne
Scientific career
Fields	Historical linguistics accentology dialectology grammar
Doctoral advisor	Vyacheslav Ivanov, André Martinet

Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (Russian: Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к, IPA: [zəlʲɪˈzʲnʲak]; 29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, accentology, dialectology and grammar. Doctor of Philological Sciences (1965, while defending his Candidate thesis). In his later years he paid much attention to the popularization of linguistics and the struggle against pseudoscience.^[1]