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Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов) (1891 - 1938) was a Russian linguist and orientalist.
He wrote major works on Japanese, Chinese, Uzbek, Dungan languages and on theoretical linguistics. He participated in developing writing systems for peoples of the Soviet Union.
He has also designed a cyrillization system for Japanese language, which was officially accepted in the Soviet Union.
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