Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov was a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n philologist and lexicographer.

He was the creator and chief editor (1935–1940) of the 4-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language

Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language

The Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language, also called just Ushakov's Dictionary, is one of the major dictionaries of the Russian language....

 with over 90,000 entries. He was also the creator of an orthographic dictionary of the Russian language (1934).

Ushakov died in Tashkent

Tashkent

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, where he was evacuate

Emergency evacuation

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d during the World War II

World War II

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. His work on a definitive explanatory dictionary of the Russian language was continued by Sergei Ozhegov

Sergei Ozhegov

Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov was a Russian lexicographer who in 1926 graduated from the Leningrad University where his teachers included Lev Shcherba and Viktor Vinogradov....

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External links

• Searchable version of Dal's, Ushakov's and Ozhegov's dictionary