The present Doodle celebrates Russian linguist, lexicographer, teacher, and author Sergey Ozhegov on his 120th birthday celebration.

Ozhegov distributed one of the first-ever Russian dictionaries, the “Dictionary of the Russian Language,” which is as yet held up as a norm of Russian linguistics today.

Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov was born on this day in 1900 in the western Russian town of Kamennoe. As a youthful adolescent, he moved with his family to St. Petersburg, where he proceeded to seek after his undergraduate education.

Following his energy for linguistics, Ozhegov started to order a “Russian Language Explanatory Dictionary” just as a dictionary devoted to the language dramatist Aleksander Ostrovsky utilized in his work.

After graduation, Ozhegov went down his ability as a lettered college teacher and went through years honing his initial thoughts into his magnum opus: the “Dictionary of the Russian Language.”

Released in 1949, the first version of the dictionary contained 50,000 words and immediately had an effect on Russia’s logophiles. Before long, readers started to request considerably more Russian words and expressions to be included, and the obliging Ozhegov endeavored to address each ask for.

He directed eight updated releases all through his career, and present day versions of the influential reference have developed to incorporate exactly 80,000 words!

In any case, Ozhegov’s dictionary alone didn’t characterize his career; he additionally established the Standard of Speech Center to give language training to TV entertainers, and today the structure where he lived carries on his legacy as the Russian Language Institute.

Much Thank to you, Sergey Ozhegov, for planning the uncharted region of the Russian linguistic landscape.