Background
ZELENIN, Dmitriy was born on November 2, 1878 in village Lyuk, Vyatka Province.
anthropologist historian linguist author
ZELENIN, Dmitriy was born on November 2, 1878 in village Lyuk, Vyatka Province.
1904 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Yur’yev (Tartu) University.
He led the European Brigade of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, which was formed in 1938 to formulate the list of nationalities to be officially recognised by the Soviet Union. In November 2004 the Antropologicheskii forum of Street St. Petersburg honoured him with some readings dedicated to him.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1925. Member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1946.