Lev Uspensky

Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky (Russian: Лев Васильевич Успенский, 8 February 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a Russian writer and philologist, known for his popular science books in linguistics.[1]

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vasilyevich and the family name is Uspensky.

Works

Prose
  • «Запах лимона» (1928, with L.L. Rubinov, as Lev Rubus)
  • «Пулковский меридиан» (1939, with G.N. Karayev)
  • «60-я параллель» (1955, with G.N. Karayev)

Science fiction
  • Плавание «Зэты». (1946)
  • Шальмугровое яблоко. (1972)
  • Эн-два-о плюс икс дважды. (1971)
  • «Слово о словах» (1954), popular linguistics
  • «Ты и твоё имя» (1960), popular linguistics
  • «Имя дома твоего» (1967), popular linguistics
  • «Загадки топонимики» (1969), popular linguistics
  • «По закону буквы», popular linguistics, history of Russian alphabet
  • Почему не иначе? Этимологический словарь школьника
  • За языком до Киева, popular linguistics
  • По дорогам и тропам языка, popular linguistics
  • За семью печатями, popular archaeology
  • Записки старого петербуржца, popular history of St.Petersburg
  • Мифы Древней Греции, popular Greek mythology
  • Золотое руно; Двенадцать подвигов Геракла, popular Greek mythology
gollark: I mean, it would "consume too much power" and "isn't useful", but this is irrelevant.
gollark: You can apparently get chip-scale atomic clocks, which *still* aren't in watches, to my eternal disappointment.
gollark: It's fine, I can rotate it, using methods.
gollark: It's also sideways.
gollark: I have no idea what that means.

References
  1. Uspensky's biography sketch Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia


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