Education
He graduated from the Department of foreign languages at Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now Herzen University) (1930).
He graduated from the Department of foreign languages at Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now Herzen University) (1930).
President of the Bureau of the section of literary translation of the Leningrad (now Street St. Petersburg) branch of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (now Russian Federation). He wrote numerous works of the German language, the theory of grammar, essays about German and Scandinavian literature. He published a number of own artistic works written in German language or in German translations.
Vladimir was a son of the famous historian, publicist and Jewish community leader Gregoriy Yakovlevich Krasniy-Admoni.
Фтв the younger brother of the composer Адмони, Иоганн Григорьевич. Doctor of Philosophy thesis (1939) has been devoted to the works of Jean Paul, doctoral dissertation (1947) - creativity of Henrik Ibsen.
He taught at the Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and in Herzen University. Headed the Department of German Philology.
Since 1960 until the death he was a fellow of the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1964, at the court session on the case of Joseph Brodsky he spoke in his defense, commending him as a poet and translator. Since 1984, he published several collections of original poems (some are in German or translated into German by the author). In co-authorship with T. I. Silman - prose memoir «We remember» (1993).
He was formed a linguist-Germanist by the Leningrad philology school.
He paid great attention to the facts of the history of language. He was the first who used the concept of the field structure in the grammatical analysis.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers]
Correspondent member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, doctor honoris causa at the University of Uppsala.