Nikolai Rogov
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Nikolai Abramovich Rogov was a Russia
Russia
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n ethnographer and philologist, a researcher of Komi-Permyak language
Komi-Permyak language
Komi-Permyak language is one of two regional varieties of the pluricentrical Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Zyrian.Komi is a Uralic language closely related to Udmurt....

. He is known as the author of the first and one of most complete dictionaries of that language. The dictionary contains about 13,000 words.

Nikolai Rogov was born in 1825 in Sredne-Yegvinskoye settlement of Perm Governorate
Perm Governorate
Perm Governorate - an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and the USSR in 1781-1923 years. Located on both slopes of the Ural Mountains...

 in serf family. He studied in the Saint-Petersburg School of Agriculture, Mining and Metallurgical Sciences. Since 1850 he worked as a forester in Stroganovs
Stroganovs
The Stroganovs or Strogonovs , also spelled in French manner as Stroganoffs, were a family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen of the 16th – 20th centuries who eventually earned nobility.-Origins:...

' estate. Later he was appointed manager of Kyn Factory (Кыновский завод) in Kungursky Uyezd
Kungursky Uyezd
Kungursky Uyezd was an administrative unit of Perm Governorate, Russian Empire. It existed since 1781 to 1921, its capital was city of Kungur.- Geography :It was situated in south of central part of governorate, to the west of Ural Mountainous....

 (Кунгурский уезд). There, in 1864, he established Kyn Co-operative Society, the first private co-operative society in Russia.

Since 1849 Rogov worked on the creation of "Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary", which was published in Saint-Petersburg in 1869. The dictionary included about 13,000 words of Inva and Nerdva dialects of Komi-Permyak language. In 2007 the dictionary was republished by Komy-Permyak Publishing House.

A historian Aleksandr Dmitriyev (Александр Дмитриев) in "Old times of Perm" reported about Rogov as follows:
Nikolai Rogov died on August 5, 1905.

Publications

  • Experience of Grammatics of Permyak language. — Saint-Petersburg, 1860.
  • Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary. — Saint-Petersburg, 1869.
  • a number of articles in Perm Governorate News (Пермские губернские ведомости).
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