Background
Doctor Smirnov was born in the United States.S.R. in 1923, and, after finishing college, he joined the army.
Doctor Smirnov was born in the United States.S.R. in 1923, and, after finishing college, he joined the army.
After getting his Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor Smirnov visited India in 1985 as a linguist, where he continued to study languages.
After the Second World War he left the army and was admitted to the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences in linguistics, where he was primarily interested in the Punjabi language, on which he later wrote his doctoral thesis. His interest in the Saraiki language led him to learn some of it from immigrants from the region where it is spoken. In 1986 he presented a report of his research in Patiala University, which published the report.
The head of the Punjabi department, Doctor Sirbinder Singh, declared Doctor Smirnov"s research on compound sentences in Punjabi to be extraordinary, and praised it as an important addition to the field of Punjabi grammar, etymology, and syntax.
The Indian Daily Tribune also praised Doctor Smirnov"s work on the Punjabi language. During that visit, Doctor Smirnov gave extensive lectures to the university students at Panjab University in Chandigarh.
In 1970, Doctor Smirnov published The Lahndi Language, a book on the Saraiki language in Russian, which was in 1975 translated into English and published in Moscow. In 1978, Doctor Smirnov was awarded a doctorate of literature.
His thesis paper was called “Theoretical Discoveries in Punjabi Language”.
In addition to this work, Doctor Smirnov worked on the theoretical and linguistic problems in the Indo-Aryan languages. Doctor Smirnov is considered to be a specialist in Saraiki, Dogri, Punjabi, and Rajasthani languages.