Sukhotin, Aleksei

Sukhotin, Aleksei Mikhailovich 

Born Nov. 7 (19), 1888, in the village of Kochety (now Volkovo), Orel Oblast; died Feb. 21,1942, in Ul’ianovsk. Soviet linguist.

Sukhotin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1925 and became a professor at the Moscow Municipal Pedagogical Institute in 1933. His main works dealt with general, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Turkic linguistics. Sukhotin helped found the Moscow school of phonology. Together with N. F. Ia-kovlev, he helped to develop written languages for various nationalities of the USSR.

WORKS

“K voprosam alfavitnoi politiki.” Prosveshchenie natsional’nostei, 1930, nos. 4–5.
“K probleme natsional’no-lingvisticheskogo raionirovaniia v Iuzhnoi Sibiri.” Kul’tura i pis’mennost’ Vostoka, 1931, books 7–8.
“Spor ob unifikatsii alfavitov.” Revoliutsiia i pis’mennost’, 1932, nos. 1–2.
“Voprosy iazykovogo stroitel’stva v zhurnalakh.” Revoliutsiia i pis’mennost’, 1932, no. 3.
“Problema ‘sokrashchennykh slov’ v iazykakh SSSR.” Pis’mennost’ i revoliutsiia, 1933, collection 1.

F. D. ASHNIN