Biography of the Russian linguist
He has become a table book of many thousands of people around the world studying the Russian language. Scientific reliability and high information content in combination with compactness are the main virtues that have determined the extraordinary durability of this book, which has much survived its creator. Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov was born on September 9 22 in the village of Kamenny Tver province.
In the year he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University, and on the proposal of his teachers V. Vinogradov and L. Shcherba was recommended to the graduate school of the Institute of Literature History and Languages of the West and East. The main object of his scientific works was conversational Russian speech in all its manifestations. He was seriously engaged in the study of the history of Russian literary language, historical grammar, lexicology, orthoepy, the language of Russian writers, spelling and phraseology.
Since the end of the 10ths, he began work on the compilation of the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language”, edited by D. Ushakov, on the basis of which Ozhegov created one of the most famous and popular dictionaries - a single -volume “Dictionary of the Russian Language”, which records modern common vocabulary, demonstrates the compatibility of words and typical phraseologisms.
The first edition of the "Dictionary of the Russian Language" Ozhegov came out in the year, and the popularity of the dictionary began to grow quickly. Since that time for a year, the Ozhegov Dictionary withstood 23 publications, with a total circulation of more than 7 million copies. From the publication to the publication of Ozhev, he processed his dictionary, trying to improve it as a universal manual on speech culture.
Until the last days of his life, the scientist tirelessly worked on improving his brainchild. At the same time, the famous dictionaries of pronunciation norms - “Spelling Dictionary of the Russian Language”, “Russian literary pronunciation and stress”, “The correctness of Russian speech”, collections “Questions of speech culture” were published under his editorship and co -authored.
At the initiative of Sergey Ivanovich, a reference service of the Russian language was created in the Russian Language Institute, which responds to the requests of organizations and individuals regarding the correctness of Russian speech. Ozhegov’s sociolinguistic studies served as the basis for his scientific problem “Russian Language and Soviet Society”.
Monograph in the four books “Russian language and Soviet society. Sociological linguistic research ”was published in, after the death of Ozhegov. Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov was a born and tireless lexicographer endowed with a special talent of a vocabulary, which had a subtle instinct of a word. Possessing a phenomenal memory, he knew many household, historical, regional and purely special realities standing behind the vocabulary of the Russian language.
Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov died on December 15 in Moscow. The urn with his ashes rests in the wall of the Necropol of the Novodevichy cemetery. Persons of the day of March 17:-Alexey Brusilov Russian and Soviet military leader, Adjutant General, Military teacher.