Dmitrii Zelenin

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Dmitrii Konstantinovich Zelenin (1878 - 1954) was a Russian linguist and ethnographer.

He led the European Brigade of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, which was formed in 1938 to formulat the list of nationalities to be officially recognised by the Soviet Union.

In November 2004 the Antropologicheskii forum of St Petersburg honoured him with some readings dedicated to him

[edit] Publications

Mezhdunarodnyi iazyk nauki i kul'turnykh snoshenii, Moscow, 1901.

[edit] References

  • Acta Eurasica, Issue #1, 2005
  • Empire of Nations:Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch, Cornell University Press, 2005
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