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Russian Language Institute

Research institute in Moscow, Russia1

The V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт русского языка имени В. В. Виноградова РАН) is the language regulator of the Russian language. It is based in Moscow and it is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was founded in 1944 and is named after Viktor Vinogradov.2 It employed 135 people.1 It is part of Division of Historical and Philological Sciences.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Feb 9, 1944Founded1

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Moscow, Volkhonka Street 18-2
Photo: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

The V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт русского языка имени В. В. Виноградова РАН) is the language regulator of the Russian language. It is based in Moscow and it is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was founded in 1944 and is named after Viktor Vinogradov. In 1950 it was merged with the N.Ya.Marr Institute of Language and Mind and became the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but in 1958 it was re-established. Its activities include assessment of speech innovations in comparison to speech norms and codification of the language in Russian literature. Their output from these endeavors has included dictionaries, monographs, computer collections and databases, as well as a large historical Russian music library. They also provide a reference service of the Russian language. The Institute publishes thirteen academic journals. In addition, the Institute published 22 scholarly books in 2013 and 27 in 2012, with many more in previous years.2

The story

History of names of the journal

1852-1863 Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the Department of Russian Language and Literature

1896-1916 Proceedings of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences

1917-1927 Proceedings of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1928-1930 Proceedings of the Russian language and literature

1928-1938 Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Department of Social Sciences

1940-1963 Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Department of Literature and Language

1963-1991 Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. A series of literature and language

1992 -... Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A series of literature and language

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Linguistic Chronology and History of the Russian language

Linguistic Chronology and History of the Russian language (Russian Лингвистическое источниковедение и история русского языка) is a research journal, issued every one to three years, beginning in 2000. Fourteen antecedent issues had been issued under various names during the Soviet era, from 1963 through 1991. All issues are available online at the publisher's website.

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Leadership

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Chair

  1. Sergey Obnorsky1944–now
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Board members and other officers (3)

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

  • Division of Historical and Philological Sciences
  • Ministry of Science and Higher Education

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Timeline

  1. Feb 9, 1944Founded Founded1

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