Academician Andrei Zaliznyak died

The linguist, doctor of philological sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Zaliznyak died. This was announced by an employee of the Russian Language Institute Dmitry Sichichyva. Burning was 82 years old.

• Andrei Zaliznyak is the largest specialist in Novgorod birch bark letters. In 1995, his book “Ancient -Gorodsk Dialect” was published.
• Another subject of studies of Zaliznyak was the “Word about Igor's Regiment”. In particular, the academician denied the arguments that this literary monument is a later fake.
• For more than 50 years, Zaliznyak taught at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, he also gave lectures at European universities. In 2007, he received the State Prize of Russia.