Leonid Nikolayevich Murzin (Russian: ?????´? ??????´???? ?????´?, Russian pronunciation: [l???'n?id n??k?'la?v??t? m?'rz?in]) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, the Dean of philological faculty at Perm State University (1964 - 1967), the founder and the head of General and Slavonic linguistics department at Perm State University; the head of Perm derivatology school; he founded the Institute of dynamic linguistics.
Perm deivatology school encouraged the development of such linguistic school as "Computer based simulation of verbal communication"