Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin
Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin was a Russian linguist and ethnographer.
He led the European Brigade of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, which was formed in 1938 to formulate the list of nationalities to be officially recognised by the Soviet Union.
In November 2004 the Antropologicheskii forum of St Petersburg honoured him with some readings dedicated to himPublications
- Mezhdunarodnyi iazyk nauki i kul'turnykh snoshenii, Moscow, 1901.
- Russische Volkskunde, Berlin und Leipzig, de Gruyter, 1927.
- Kult ongonov v Sibiri, Moscow, 1936.
- Le culte des idoles en Sibérie, Paris : Payot, 1952.
