Background
ASHMARIN, Nikolay was born on September 22, 1870 in Yadrin.
ASHMARIN, Nikolay was born on September 22, 1870 in Yadrin.
1894 graduate Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, Moscow.
Specialized in Chuvash language and folklore and Tatar philology'. Wrote 17-volume Chuvash dictionary. Recorded enough Chuvash oral lit to fill 30 volume.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1929.