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Lev Zimin

ليف زيمين

Notable figure 1886–1920 · Source: M. Soyegov, Vestnik of Altai State Pedagogical University 2017/1 (30); Saʿdun Mahmud al-Samuk, al-Istishraq al-Rusi (Amman: Dar al-Manahij), p. 156

From Russia; worked in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Compiled a short Arabic chrestomathy and glossary (1920)

Biography

Lev Aleksandrovich Zimin, a Russian from Oryol, studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish at St Petersburg University (1904–1909). He taught in Tashkent and Turkmenistan, then joined the Arabic department of the new Baku University (1919), and prepared a short Arabic chrestomathy and glossary for his students (1920). Most of his surviving work is Central Asian history. He was shot on 10 May 1920.