Место издания:Indian Council for Cultural Relations Azad Bhavanm I.P.Estate. New Delhi, India
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Аннотация:The paper deals with biographies and research activities of the most distinguished Russian scholars of the 19th - 20th centuries who were specializing in linguistics. Among others life and works by O. Boetlingk, I. Minaev, F. Fortunatov, T. Elizarenkova are shortly characterized. It is shown that in the 2nd half of the 19th century the quickly developing Russian indological studies in linguistics were making progress and the corresponding scholars of Russia were on par with their Western Europe and America colleagues. After the Bolshevic upheaval of 1917 the research work on Classical India was hindered and later almost completely stopped. Partial compensation or this was teaching of Modern Indo-Aryan languages undertaken in the 30ies of the 20th century at the universities of Leningrad (S.-Petersburg) and Moscow. Only the new generation of teachers and scientists, brought up by the end of the 40ies, gave a new start to studies in Classical as well as New Indo-Aryan.