Institute of Language and Thought of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, a research institution founded in 1921 as the Institute for Japhetic (European) Studies, renamed the Japhetic Institute in 1922. Joined by the Committee for the Russian Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1930, it was renamed as the Institute of Language and Thought in 1931, situated at 5 Universitetskaya Embankment. The institute had departments for research, education and propaganda, vocabulary and terminology; the structure of the institute was later changed. It was headed by N. Y. Marr, a member of the academy and the founder of the institute, in 1921-34 and I. I. Meshchaninov, a member of the academy in 1934-50. In 1950, it was united with the Institute of the Russian Language, Moscow, into the Institute of Linguistics as a part of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Based on the institute departments left in Leningrad, a Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Linguistics was established in 1956, which is now known as the Institute for Linguistic Studies. The institute published its Proceedings in 1932-49.

O. N. Ansberg. Marr Nikolay Yakovlevich
Meshchaninov Ivan Ivanovich
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5