Viktor Vladimirovich VINOGRADOV Linguist and literary historian; (b. Zaraysk (Ryazan governorate), 31 December 1894 – d. Moscow, 4 October 1969)

University professor, Moscow State University; head of the Department of Russian Language (1930–1969); director of the Russian Language Institute at the AS USSR (1958–1968)

Membership of SASA: Department of Literature and Language; foreign member from 17 December 1959

Awards and recognitions: dr hc: Charles University in Prague and University of Budapest. Award of the Lomonosov State University in Moscow, 1945; USSR State Prize, 1951; A. S. Pushkin Academic Prize, posthumously 1971

Obituary: Glasnik/ SANU 23 (1972) 133-137 (M. Stevanović)

Photograph: SANU F–489