Nikolai Durnovo Николай Дурново
Born	Nikolai Nikolaevich Durnovo 23 October 1876 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	27 October 1937(1937-10-27) (aged 61) Sandarmokh, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Executed by shooting
Education	Doctor of Science (1918) Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alma mater	Imperial Moscow University (1899)
Occupation	Linguist

Nikolai Nikolayevich Durnovo (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Дурново́; 4 November [O.S. 23 October] 1876 – 27 October 1937) was a Russian linguist. He was sentenced to death and shot during the Great Purge.

Biography

Durnovo was born into the Durnovo family. His father was also named Nikolai Nikolayevich Durnovo, and his paternal grandmother was a member of the noble House of Saltykov.^{[citation needed]}

Durnovo was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1924) and the Belarusian Academy of Sciences and specialised in Russian language dialectology, the history of Russian and Slavic languages, Russian language morphology theory of grammar, as well as ancient literature. He created a classification of Russian dialects that served as a base for modern scientific linguistic nomenclature.^{[citation needed]}

During the Great Purge, Durnovo was shot and buried in a mass grave at Sandarmokh in Karelia (northwest Russia).^[1]