Alexander Samoylovich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlexander Samoylovich
Russian academic
Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1880
Place of Birth: Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 13-Feb-1938
Profession: linguist
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Alexander Samoylovich
- Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich (Russian: ??????´??? ??????´???? ???????´???, 1880–1938) was a Russian Orientalist-Turkologist who served as a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Rector of the Leningrad Oriental Institute (1922–1925), academic secretary of the Humanities Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929–1933), and director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1934–1937).
- He was arrested by the NKVD in October 1937, and was executed on February 13, 1938.
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