Nikolai Rogov


Nikolai Abramovich Rogov was a Russian ethnographer and philologist, a researcher of Komi-Permyak language. He is known as the author of the first and one of the most complete dictionaries of that language. The dictionary contains about 13,000 words.
Nikolai Rogov was born in 1825 in Sredne-Yegvinskoye settlement of Perm Governorate in serf family. He studied in the Saint-Petersburg School of Agriculture, Mining and Metallurgical Sciences. Since 1850 he worked as a forester in Stroganovs' estate. Later he was appointed manager of Kyn Factory in Kungursky Uyezd. There, in 1864, he established Kyn Co-operative Society, the first private co-operative society in Russia.
Since 1849 Rogov worked on the creation of "Permyak-Russian and Russian-Permyak Dictionary", which was published in Saint-Petersburg in 1869. The dictionary included about 13,000 words of Inva and Nerdva dialects of Komi-Permyak language. In 2007 the dictionary was republished by Komy-Permyak Publishing House.
A historian Aleksandr Dmitriyev in "Old times of Perm" reported about Rogov as follows:
Nikolai Rogov died on August 5, 1905.

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