Background
BULAKHOVSKIY, Leonid was born on April 14, 1888 in Khar’kov.
BULAKHOVSKIY, Leonid was born on April 14, 1888 in Khar’kov.
1910 graduate Faculty of History and Philology, Khar'kov University.
1917-1921 professor, Permanent’ University. From 1921 professor, Khar’kov University. 1943-1944 professor, Moscow University.
1946-1960 professor and head, Chair of Slavic Philology, Kiev University. Chairman, Ukraine Slavists’ Committee, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. Specialized in history of lit Ukraine and Russian, comparative and historical grammar and etymology of Slavic languages and Slavic accentology.
Reconstructed ancient Slavic accentuation and elucidated historical aspects of stress and quantitative concepts in various Slavic languages. Developed modern Ukraine orthographic system, which was adopted in 1946.
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1939. Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1946.