employed at the Institute since 2021

Distinguished scholar of Finno-Ugric studies. Head of the Group for Finno-Ugric Languages.

See Natalia Kolpakova's obiltuary for Clara Maytinskaya (in Russian).

Employed at the Institute since 2019. г.

In 2013, Vadim Dyachkov graduated from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of MSU. In 2019, he defended a PhD thesis in a dissertation council D 002.006.03 at the Institute of Linguistics of RAS. 

Employed at the Institute since 2010.

Graduated from Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University, in 2004. PhD (2009). Took part in several linguistic expeditions lead by Ariadna I. Kuznetsova (Mari El, Udmurt Republic, Mordovia) between 2000 and 2006. Studied in Germany and Sweden as part of student exchange programs.

Speaks English and German fluently (C2: CAE and GDS respectively), as well as Swedish (B1-B2).

Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since March 2010.

Elena Markus has been working at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2007.

Research interests

Phonetics, phonology, morphonology, morphology, linguistic typology, areal linguistics, language contacts, field linguistics, documentation of endangered languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Finnic languages, Votic, Indrian.