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2013.
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Professor N. F. Katanov has been one of the famous and outstanding national scholars and thinkers of Russian science, education and culture at .the turn of nineteenth and early twentieth century} Scientific and
pedagogic activity of N. F. Katanov is multidimensional. Famous Russian Turkologist G. I. Iskhakov wrote: "Turkologist-orientalists O. N. Blhtlingk, M. A. CastrEn, V. V. Radloff, I. N. Berezin and others_laid the foundation of oriental studies in Russia, then Professor N. F. Katanov enriched this science with new data in the sphere of linguistics, history, archaeology and ethnography through his self-sacrificing work, scrupulous I investigation and long-term research of a language and oriental peoples' ' culture. And, therefore, he got into the line of biggest world scholars"? In oriental studies N. F. Katanov is famous as a scholar encyclopedist having wide interests - language, literature, folklore, history, archaeology, ethnography, numismatology, museology. His scientific interest was not only in history and culture of the Turkic-speaking peoples but also in the Slavonic, Ugro-Finnic, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Indian peoples. He could speak almost all the European languages, many oriental languages, knew also petrified and dead classic languages, read Turkic runes, Sumerian wedge writing, Egyptian and Chinese hieroglyphs, Sanskrit writing, Arabic ligatured script, Old Uyghur and Aramaic ' graphics ?uently". N. F. Katanov's biographers report that he used the data of 114 world languages in his works.'
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