Natalia Yulievna Shvedova was a Russian lexicographer who authored several standard outlines of Russian grammar

Russian grammar

Russian grammar encompasses:* a highly synthetic morphology* a syntax that, for the literary language, is the conscious fusion of three elements:** a Church Slavonic inheritance;...

, for which she was awarded the USSR State Prize

USSR State Prize

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 in 1982.

Yuly Aikhenvald's daughter and Viktor Vinogradov

Viktor Vinogradov

Viktor Vladimirovich Vinogradov was a Soviet linguist and philologist who presided over Soviet linguistics after World War II.Vinogradov's teachers at the Petrograd Institute of History and Philology included Lev Shcherba and Aleksey Shakhmatov, but it was Charles Bally's ideas that influenced him...

's favourite disciple, Shvedova was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

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 in 1997. After Sergei Ozhegov

Sergei Ozhegov

Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov was a Russian lexicographer who in 1926 graduated from the Leningrad University where his teachers included Lev Shcherba and Viktor Vinogradov....

's death in 1964, Shvedova was responsible for updating and correcting his immensely popular explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. Among her later projects was the first semantic dictionary of the language (vol. 1, 1998; vol. 2, 2000).