Nikolai Baskakov (linguist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolai Baskakov (linguist)

Russian Turkologist

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1905

Place of Birth: Solvychegodsk, Russia

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1996

Profession: university teacher, folklorist, ethnographer, turkologist, linguist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov (Russian: ??????´? ??????´??????? ?????´???; 1905-1995) was a Russian Turkologist, linguist, and ethnologist.
He created a systematization model of the Turkic language family (Baskakov's classification), and studied Turkic-Russian contacts in the 10-11th centuries CE.
During 64 years of scientific work (1930-1994), Baskakov published almost 640 works including 32 books.
The main area of Baskakov's scientific interests was linguistics, but he also studied folklore and ethnography of the Turkic peoples, and also was a musician and composer.