Background
Georgy Klimov was born on the 23rd of September, 1928 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg.
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Georgy Klimov
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Georgy Klimov
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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) State University
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Georgian Academy of Sciences
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Russian Academy of Sciences
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Russian Academy of Sciences
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Russian Academy of Sciences
mentor: Arnold Chikobava
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Georgy Klimov
linguist philologist specialist in Caucasian studies
Georgy Klimov was a Russian linguist and a leading specialist of the Caucasian languages.
Education
He graduated from Philology Department of Leningrad State University (1952).
Career
His interest primarily focused on the Kartvelian linguistics but also encompassed the Burushaski language and the Amerind language group. Born in Leningrad, Klimov graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1952. From 1954 onward, he worked for the Institute of Linguistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, becoming a professor there in 1988.
He died in Moscow in 1997, leaving behind over 360 scholarly works and many projects uncompleted.
One of them, Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages, a result of Klimov’s lifetime research, was published in 1998 and remains the best work in the comparative linguistics of Kartvelian languages.
Connections
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- Arnold Chikobava
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Born
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Died
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Nationality
Russia Soviet Union
Education
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1952
Leningrad State University , Philology Department
Career
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1953 - 1954
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1954
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1975
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1988
Awards
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Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize