Zelenin, Dmitrii

Zelenin, Dmitrii [Зеленин, Дмитрий], b 2 November 1878 in Liuk, Riazan gubernia, Russia, d 31 August 1954 in Leningrad. Russian ethnographer and dialectologist; corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1925. A graduate of Yurev (now Tartu) University (1904), he taught at Kharkiv University (1916–25) and Leningrad University. His chief works, Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' russkoi etnograficheskoi literatury o vneshnem byte narodov Rossii, 1700–1910 (A Bibliographic Guide to Russian Ethnographic Literature on the External Life of the Peoples of Russia, 1700–1910, 1913) and Russische (Ostslavische) Volkskunde (1927), contain much information about Ukrainian ethnography. He also wrote several articles on the historical relations between Ukrainian and Russian cultures, published in Pervisne hromadianstvo ta ioho perezhytky na Ukraïni and other scholarly journals.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]