Agniya Desnitskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1912
Place of Birth: Sedniv, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 18-Apr-1992
Profession: linguist
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Agniya Desnitskaya
- Agniya Vasilyevna Desnitskaya (Russian: ?´???? ????´?????? ?????´????) (23 August 1912 — 18 April 1992, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet Russian linguist, a specialist in Indo-European languages, esp.
- Germanic languages and the Albanian language, literature and folklore.
- Professor of Leningrad State University, candidate member of the USSR Academy of Sciences via Department of Literature and Language (from 26 June 1964). Her first works cover Indo-European and Germanic questions (in line with Leningrad Grammatical School); Desnitskaya later specialized herself as an Albanologist, becoming in effect the first specialist in Albanian philology in Russia and the founder of Albanology in Saint Petersburg.
- Her more important works are "History of Albanian literature" (1987) and a description of Albanian language and its dialects (1968).
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