title: Alexander Kuchin (1888–1913?) and his Small Russian- Norwegian dictionary
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metadata.value: Taratonkina, Irina
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metadata.value: 2023-08-09T09:05:45Z
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metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Taratonkina I. Alexander Kuchin (1888–1913?) and his Small Russian- Norwegian dictionary. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 1, pp. 181– 192. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.112
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.112
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43646
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metadata.value: The article introduces Alexander Kuchin and his “Small Russian-Norwegian dictionary”,
  which was published in 1907 by the publishing house “Pomor” (Finnmarken)
  in Vardø (Norway) and was very popular at that time. Its author, Alexander Stepanovich
  Kuchin, a man with a unique destiny, is known to compatriots as the only Russian
  who participated in the discovery of the South Pole in the Roald Amundsen’s expedition,
  and also as the first of our countrymen who, after the discovery of Antarctica
  in 1820 by the expedition of Faddey F. Bellingshausen and Michael P. Lazarev, landed
  on the coast of the Southern continent. A talented young man who died in the expedition
  of Vladimir A. Rusanov at the age of only 25, made a great contribution to
  science, research and navigation. Born in the village of Kushereka in the Onega district
  of the Arkhangelsk province, Alexander received a good education for that time.
  He graduated from a two-grade parochial school in Kushereka, brilliantly studied at
  the Onega City School, attended classes at the Tromsø school for a year and was the
  only one in the course graduated from the Arkhangelsk Merchant and Maritime School
  with a gold medal. He read H. Ibsen, K. Hamsun, J. Falkberget and other writers in the
  original. Alexander was also lucky to work at the biological station in Bergen under
  the direction of Bjørn Hjelland-Hansen, one of the founders of oceanography as a science;
  here he also met Fridtjof Nansen, one of the national Norwegian heroes, which
  played a significant role in A. Kuchin’s life. The “Small Russian-Norwegian dictionary”
  was published in 2,000 copies and was very popular that time. The dictionary contains
  around 4,000 words on 48 pages. There are no proper names in it, but at the end of the
  dictionary basic information about the phonetics and grammar of the Norwegian language
  is disposed. It is focused on Russian users and arouses undoubted interest among
  linguists, since it appeared in 1907, two years after the termination of the union with
  Sweden. It is valuable that Alexander Kuchin, not being a linguist, fixed the language used by common people such as fishermen and trawlermen in the North of Norway
  (particularly in Finnmark and Troms). Such a democratic version of the language is
  also of special scientific interest. In general, the dictionary was caused by necessity,
  appeared at a proper time, was well compiled and completely fulfilled the functions
  assigned to it.
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Norwegian
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bilingual dictionaries
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metadata.value: Russian-Norwegian dictionaries
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metadata.value: small dictionaries
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metadata.value: Alexander Kuchin
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metadata.value: Alexander Kuchin (1888–1913?) and his Small Russian- Norwegian dictionary
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