Valentin Vydrin
Valentin Feodosyevich Vydrin (also spelled Vydrine; ; born February 6, 1961, Belogorka, Leningrad Oblast) is a Russian Africanist. Until 2011, he was the head of the Department of Ethnography of African Peoples of the Kunstkamera, Professor, Doctor of Philology. He is a Graduate of the Department of African Studies of the Faculty of Eastern Studies of the Saint Petersburg State University, where he was later a lecturer. He is an author of numerous scientific works, published in Russian, French, and English, on the topic of Mande languages, including dictionaries and treatises on grammatical features.Since 2010, he lectures in France, as a professor of Mande languages in the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris.
His daughter, Alexandra Vydrina (1988–2021), also was a linguist. Provided by Wikipedia
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