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Stepanov, Iurii S., D. Phlg. S. Born in 1930. Corresponding member of the Language
and Literature Department of the Academy since 1984; acadmician in 1993. Also a
member of the Bureau of the Department.
Tolstoi, Nikita I., D. Phlg. S. Corresponding member of the Language and Literature
Department of the Academy since 1984. Academician since 1987. At the Slavic and
Balkan Studies Institute in Moscow Professor Tolstoi directs study and research on
the history of the spiritual culture of the peoples of Central and Southeastern Europe
in the context of European and world culture.
Trubachev, Oleg N., D. Phlg. S. Born in 1930 in Volgograd. Russian linguist.
Corresponding member of the Literature and Language Department of the Academy
since 1972; academician in 1993. He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk University
in 1952. He became Deputy Director of the Russian Language Institute in 1966 and
has served as Head of the institute's sector on etymology and onomastics. His
works are on the etymology of Slavic languages and on East Slavic onomastics. He
has been editor-in-Chief of Etymology since 1963. (GSE 26, p. 389.)
Zalygin, Sergei P. Academician of the Literature and Language Department of the
Academy and member of the Bureau of the Department.
Corresponding Members
Averintsev, Sergei S., Corresponding member of the Literature and Language
Department of the Academy since December 1987. (LDA-11378.)
Berdnikov, Georgii P., D. Phlg. S. Born in 1915 in Rostov-on-Don. Soviet literary
scholar. Corresponding member of the Literature and Language Department of the
Academy since 1974. He graduated from the philology department of Leningrad
State University in 1939. From 1977 to February 1988, he served as Director of the
A. M. Gorkiy World Literature Institute in Moscow which is subordinate to the
academy's Literature and Language department. It serves as the principal body in the
Academy of Sciences for research on contemporary Soviet and foreign literature.
His principal works are on Chekhov, I. S. Turgenev, and S. Karonin. (GSE 30, p.
24.)
Dmitriev, Anatolii V., D. Phil. S. Corresponding member of the Academy in 1993. In
1976, he was a Deputy Director of the socioeconomic Problems Institute in St.
Petersburg which was established in 1975. He is leading studies on the scientific
background of concepts of social development of Soviet society.
Domashnev, Anatolii I. Corresponding member of the Literature and Language
Department of the Academy in 1993, and member of the Bureau of the Department.
Fedorenko, Nikolai T., C. Phi. S. Born in 1912 in Piatigorsk. Russian philologist and
orientalist. State and public figure. Professor (1953) . Corresponding member of the
Literature and Language Department of the Academy since 1958. Son of a worker.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1937. In 1954, he
became an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the USSR From 1955 to
1958, he was Deputy minister of foreign affairs. From 1958 to 1962, he served as
ambassador to Iapan. From 1963 to 1968, he was permanent representative of the
USSR to the UN and from 1963 to 1968 he was USSR representative on the UN
Security Council. In 1970, he became editor-in-Chief of the journal inostrannaia
(aya) literatura (Foreign Literature). In 1971, he became secretary of the
administrative board of the Writers' Union of the USSR From 1966 to 1971, he was
a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the CPSU. He is an honorary
member of the China Research Institute in Tokyo (1961) and honorary academician
of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts (1975). In 1988, he was appointed advisor to
the Academy's Presidium. (GSE 27, pp. 128-9.)
Gamzatov, Gadzhi G., D. Phlg S. Corresponding member of the Literature and
Language Department of the Academy since 1984. He is the Director of the Tsadasa
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