Yuri Koryakov

Yuri Koryakov has been working at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1999.

linguistic and languages maps
taxonomy of languages of the world, including the creation of Russian linguonyms
practical and academic system of transcription and transliteration
classification of Dargwic languages
typology of phonological system of languages of the World

Yuri Koryakov was born in 1976 in Rostov-on-Don, spent his childhood and adolescence in Khadyzhensk,
In 1998 he graduated from Department of Theoretic and Applied Linguistics of Moscow State University by M.V.Lomonosov in the specialty "Theoretic and Applied Linguistics". The theme of diploma is "The quantitative relationships of vowels in languages of Europa".
In 2002 he got his PhD thesis "Linguistic Situation in Belarus and Typology of Linguistic Situation" in MSU.
Since 1999 he has been working in the group "Languages of the World" of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The work on the Atlas of Languages of Russia.
The work at the Encyclopedia "Languages of the World":
- Conduct volumes on "relict" languages:
  - "Languages of the World: Ancient relict languages of Western Asia" (published in 2010)
  - "Languages of the World: Relict Indo-European languages of Western and Central Asia" (published in 2013)
  - "Languages of the World: Paleoeuropean languages(published in 2021)
  - "Languages of the World: Relict Indo-European languages of Europe" (collection of articles)
- The creation of maps for other volumes: Semitic, Sinitic, Austriasiatic languages
- The creation of linguistic indices, check of socio-linguistic and linguo-geographicall information
Project to create practical transcriptions for world's minor languages
Classification of Dargwic languages based on lexicostatistical data
Departments of linguistics and ethnography of Great Russian Encyclopedia
- Writing of articles on the languages of the World
- Review of articles on languages and peoples
Creation and edition of articles on languages and related themes in Russia Wikipedia
Creation of a catalogue and archive of electronic resources on linguistics available in Russia

Koryakov,Yuri 2001. Atlas of the Languages of the World. Romance languages. — Moscow.
Koryakov,Yuri. 2002. Atlas of the Caucasian languages. — Moscow.
Natalya Koshkareva, Egor Kashkin, Yuri Koryakov, Olga Kazakevich, Svetlana Burkova, Nikita Muraviev, Elena Budyanskaya. 2017. Dialektologičeskij atlas ural'skix jazykov, rasprostranënnyx na territorii Jamalo-Neneckogo avtonomnogo okruga. [Dialectological Atlas of the Uralic Languages Spoken on the Territory of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region.]. Edited by N. B. Koshkareva. - Kaliningrad: Publishing House "ROST-DOAFK", 2017. - 260 p.

Articles

Khanina O., Koryakov Y. Mapping the Enets speaking people and their languages // S. Drude & N. Ostler & M. Moser (eds.), Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL XXII, 2018). — London, Reykjavík: Foundation for Endangered Languages and EL Publishing, 2019. — Pp. 69-77.
Pupynina M., Koryakov Y. Chukchi-Speaking Communities in Three Russian Regions: A 120-Year Story of Language Shift // Sibirica, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2019. — Pp. 78–124. doi: 10.3167/sib.2019.180205
Dobrushina N., Daniel M., & Koryakov Y. Languages and sociolinguistics of the Caucasus // Maria Polinsky (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. — Pp. 27-66.

Editorial Boards

The Caucasian Languages. An International Handbook. 2 vol. / Koryakov, Yuri; Yury Lander; Timur Maisak (eds). [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK)] — De Gruyter Mouton. Contracted, in preparation for 2022.