Igor Kormushin

Chief Researcher, Department of Ural-Altaic Languages

The chairman of the Russian Committee of Turkologists at the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Since 1965, Igor Kormushin is a Researcher of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 

The full data for the 2016 attestation is available here.

Igor Kormushin was born on January 25, 1939 in Leningrad/Saint-Petersburg in a family of students. During the War, he lived with his mother in evacuation in the Far-East and Vladivostok. After the War, he returned to Leningrad, where he studied at the secondary schools No. 159 and No. 68, from which in 1956 he graduated. For a year he had been working at the factory as a fitter's apprentice, fitter, rigger and studied at the preparatory courses at the Leningrad State University by A.A. Zhdanov.

In 1957, Igor Kormushin entered the Department of Turkic philology of Faculty of Asian and African Studies of Leningrad State University and in 1962, graduated with the qualification of an orientalist-philologist. During the studies, he attended lectures and was studying with famous Turkologists, Iranianists and Arabianists. He passed one-year internship in Bulgaria at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". He took classes of Turkish language and Ottoman diplomacy. 

In 1962, Igor Kormushin was admitted to the postgraduate studies of the Leningrad Department of the Institute of Linguistics in specialization "Altaistics" where he studied the Tungus-Manchu and Mongolian languages and read ancient Turkic texts.

While studying at the postgraduate school, in the summer of 1964, he went on his first linguo-ethnographic expedition in the Far East of Russia to the regions of the Udege people to collect linguistic materials for the development of "The comparative dictionary of the Tungus-Manchu Languages". The materials collected by Kormushin supplemented the basis of the Udege glossary and were included in "The comparative dictionary of the Tungus-Manchu Languages". Later on, in 1998, they were published as a separate book: "Udege language. Materials of ethnography. Outline of phonetics and grammar. Texts and Translations. Dictionary." During his studies, he was also a part of the group engaged in the creation of "The Ancient Türkic Dictionary".

In 1965, after completing his postgraduate studies, Igor Kormushin was admitted to the staff of the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences where he works to the present. He went through all stages of the academic career, from Junior Researcher to Senior (1985), Leading (1992) and Chief (1998) Researcher.

In 1969, in Leningrad, he defended his PhD thesis in the specialization "Languages of the USSR peoples" – "The category of Causative in the Altai languages". In 1991, in Moscow, he defended his Dr.habil. thesis in two specializations "General linguistics" and "Turkic Languages" – "Problems of the reconstruction of the Proto-Turkic verb: temporal system, its origins and transformations".

In 2002, Igor Kormushin was awarded the title of Professor.

From 1964 to 2017, Igor Kormushin conducted more than 30 linguistic and epigraphic expeditions to the regions of the Far East, Khakassia, Tuva and Mongolia. He participated in a number of projects under the programs of fundamental research of the Presidium and the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Since 1986 Igor Kormushin has been Scientific Secretary of the Russian Committee of Turkologists.In 2007, he was validated as the chairman of the Russian Committee of Turkologists at the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1997, Igor Kormushin as a member of the team of Turkologists of the Department of Ural-Altai languages of the Department of Foreign Languages of RAS became a laureate of the Abdel Aziz Saud Al-Babtin Premium (Kuwait). In 2000 he was elected an Honorary Member of Turkish Linguistic Society (Türk Dil Kurumu).

In 2003, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Worker of Professional Higher Education of Russian Federation".

In 2009,  he was awarded the title of "Honored Scientist of the Republic of Tuva".

In 2018, he has been elected the editor-in-chief of the journal "Russian Turkology".

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Selected publications

Igor Kormushin is the author of more than 200 publications in Russian, Turkish and English languages (8 monograps and 10 collective monographs).

Monographs and chapters in monographs 

  1. Yenisey eski Türk mezar yazıtları [Yeniseian ancient Turkic epitaphs] // Metinler ve incelemeler [Texts and Translations] / Çeviren Rysbek Alimov [Translaion Rysbek Alimov]. Ankara, 2017. 368 p. (ISBN 978-975-16-3344-6)
  2. Tyurkskie eniseiskie epitafii: grammatika, tekstologiya, 2008. [Turkic Yeniseian epitaphs: grammar, textology]. M., "Nauka", 342 p.
  3. Co-authored with Edgem Tenishev, Galina Blagova, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak, Kenesbay Musaev, Vladimir Nasilov, Julia Normanskaya, Rosa Tadinova, Zarema Ekba. 2006. Sravnitel'no-istoricheskaya grammatika tyurkskikh yazykov. Pratyurkskii yazyk-osnova. Kartina mira pratyurka. [Comparative-historical grammar of the Turkic languages. The Pra-Turkic language is the basis. The picture of the world of the praturk.]. M., "Nauka", 908 p.
  4. Co-authored with Galina Blagova, Igor Dobrodomov, Anna Dybo, Lia Levitskaya, Oleg Mudrak, Kenesbay Musaev, Edgem Tenishev. Sravnitel'no-istoricheskaya grammatika tyurkskikh yazykov. Leksika. 2001. [Comparative-historical grammar of the Turkic languages. Vocabulary.]. M., "Nauka", 779 p. Reprinted: M., Nauka, 2001.
  5. Edgem Tenishev, Vladimir Arakin, Galina Blagova, Anuar Chechenov, Ludmila Pokrovskaya, Fedor Ashnin,  Lia Levitskaya, Ahnef Uldashev, Nikolai Baskakov, Igor Kormushin, Ninel Hajiyeva, Kenesbay Musaev. 1988. Sravnitel'no-istoricheskaya grammatika tyurkskikh yazykov. Morfologiya. [Comparative-historical grammar of the Turkic languages. Morphology.]. M., "Nauka", 560 p.
  6. Co-authored with Vladimir Nasilov, Orest Sunik, Vera Cincius, Elena Letyagina. 1978. Ocherki sravnitel'noi morfologii altaiskikh yazykov. [Essays on the comparative morphology of the Altai languages.]. Responsible editor Orest Sunik. L., LO "Nauka", 270 p.
  7. Co-authored with Tatiand Borokova, Ludmila Dmitrieva, Aleksandr Zyrin, Elena Letyagina, Vladimir Nadelyaev, Vladimir Nasilov, Edgem Tenishev. 1969. Drevnetyurkskii slovar'. [Ancient Turkic dictionary.]. L. "Nauka", 38+676 p. 

Article 2020 

  • Karışık Uygur Oğuz Nitelikli Eski Türk Koine Yazı Dilinin Oluşumu Özellikleri (On the features of the addition of the ancient Turkic literary Koine of the mixed Uyghur-Oguz character) // Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları. 2020. V. 30. № 2. pp. 101–118.

Articles 2019

  • Yenisei runiform inscriptions and Turkic languages in the Yenisei Basin in the 8th–10th centuries // Turkic Languages. 2019, 23, 2. P. 153–162. 
  • A short word about Dmitry Mikhailovich Nasilov // Collective monograph: Sözüm munda kalïr barïr ben özüm «Slova moi ostayutsya, a sam ya uidu».М.: publishing house of MBA, 2019. pp 359–365. 

Article 2017 

  • Tonyokuk Yazıtı ve Yenisey Yazıtlarındaki “papyon kravat” Biçimindeki Runik İşaretinin Doğru Okunuşa Dair [On the correct reading of the runic sign "bow tie" in the Tonyukuk Inscription and the Yeniseian Inscriptionsх] // Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları. 2017, 27.1. (Uluslararası Talat Tekin Sempozyumu Bildirileri. [Reports at the international symposium in memory of Talat Tekin.]) P. 67–70.

Articles 2008-2016 

  • “Otuz Türk”, Çin ve Türk orta çağdaki yazıtlarında [Unification of "30 tribes of the Turks" in Chinese and Turkic medieval inscriptions] // VIII. Milletlerarası Türkoloji Kongresi. 30 Eylül - 04 Ekim 2013 – İstanbul. [VIII International Congress of Turkologists, September 30 - October 4, 2013, Istanbul] Bildiri kitabı. II. Istanbul, 2014. S.153-161. [Book of reports. II]. Istambul, 2014, с.153-161
  • Bir kez daha Y-152 (Şançı III) kodlu Yenisey yazıtı üzerine [Once again about the Yenisei inscription E-152 (Shanchi-III)] // Yalım Kaya Bitigi. Osman Fikri Sertkaya armağanı [Collection in honor of O. F. Sertkaya]. Ankara. 2013, pp 421-426.

Publications in the materials of scientific events (2008-2016)

  • Yenisey Runalı Yazısı, Okhun ve Doğu Türkestan’daki yazı varyantlarıyla münasebetleri // International Symposium of Old Turkic Inscriptions: Language, History and Culture, Turkey, Adıyaman, September 25-30 2013.
  • “Otuz Türk”, Çin ve Türk orta çağdaki yazıtlarında [Unification of "30 tribes of the Turks" in Chinese and Turkic medieval inscriptions] // VIII. Milletlerarası Türkoloji Kongresi. 30 Eylül - 04 Ekim 2013 – İstanbul. [VIII International Congress of Turkologists, September 30 - October 4, 2013, Istanbul] Bildiri kitabı. II. Istanbul, 2014. S.153-161. [Book of reports. II]. Istambul, 2014, с.153-161
  • Arhanan inscription as a new type of runic texts [Arkhanan inscription as a new type of runic texts] // International Symposium “Marginal Forms of Ancient Turkic Writing: Non-classical Ancient Türkic Runic Inscriptions in the Center of Eurasia and Their Decipherment. Berlin, 22-24 November 2012
  • Türk Karakterlerinin Şekil Değiştirmesinin Yazıtların Tarihlendirmesinde Kullanımı // Ötüken’den İstanbul’a Türkçenin 1290 yılı (720 – 2010) sempozyumu / Bildiriler. İstanbul, 2011, s. 11-14.
  • About the Choir runic inscription at the end of VII century A.D. // Unknown treasures of the Altaic world in the libraries, archives and museums. Abstracts / 53rd Annual Meeting Permanent International Altaistic Conference. July 25-30, 2010, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Saint-Petersburg, 2010, p. 34-35.
  • Kaşgari Mahmut'un eserindeki yer adları [About the names of places in the work of Mahmud of Kashgar] // II. Uluslararası Türk Dili ve Türk Halk Edebiyatı sempozyumu. Bildiriler. [II International Symposium on the Language and Literature of the Turks. Reports]. 4–8 Kasım 2009. K.K.T.C. – Lefkoşa. S.70–71.
  • Türk Dillerinin Tarihi için Kaşgarlı Mahmud' daki verilerin Türk dilleri için önemi [Significance of the data of Mahmud Kashgar for the history of the Turkic languages] // I. Uluslararası Kaşgarlı Dil ve Edebiyat sempozyumu. Bildiriler. [I International Symposium on Language and Literature dedicated to Mahmud Kashgar. Reports]. 9–12 Nisan 2008. K.K.T.C. – Lefkoşa. S. 67–68.

 

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