Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky (Russian: Лев Васильевич Успенский, 8 February 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a Russian writer and philologist, known for his popular science books in linguistics.[1]

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Works

Prose

• «Запах лимона» (1928, with L.L. Rubinov, as Lev Rubus)
• «Пулковский меридиан» (1939, with G.N. Karayev)
• «60-я параллель» (1955, with G.N. Karayev)

Science fiction

• Плавание «Зэты». (1946)
• Шальмугровое яблоко. (1972)
• Эн-два-о плюс икс дважды. (1971)

Popular science

• «Слово о словах» (1954), popular linguistics
• «Ты и твоё имя» (1960), popular linguistics
• «Имя дома твоего» (1967), popular linguistics
• «Загадки топонимики» (1969), popular linguistics
• «По закону буквы», popular linguistics, history of Russian alphabet
• Почему не иначе? Этимологический словарь школьника
• За языком до Киева, popular linguistics
• По дорогам и тропам языка, popular linguistics
• За семью печатями, popular archaeology
• Записки старого петербуржца, popular history of St.Petersburg
• Мифы Древней Греции, popular Greek mythology
• Золотое руно; Двенадцать подвигов Геракла, popular Greek mythology

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На других языках

[ru] Успенский, Лев Васильевич