Department Head, Department of Ural-Altaic Languages
Edhyam Tenishev, PhD, Dr.habil., corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1984), was a Russian linguist specializing in Turkology and Mongolian Studies.
He was editor-in-chief of a "Soviet Turkology" journal, as well as a multi-volume edition "Comparative Grammar of Turkic Languages. Lexics".
See the article by Anna Dybo and Alexandra Sheymovich (in Russian) for a full list of Tenishev's publications.