Aleksandr Gryunberg-Tsvetinovich

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Aleksandr Gryunberg-Tsvetinovich (Russian: Алекса́ндр Лео́нович Грю́нберг-Цветино́вич) was a Russian philologist born on March 1, 1930, in Leningrad. He specialized in Indo-Iranian languages, with a focus on the languages of Afghanistan. He studied Iranian philology at Leningrad State University and spent his career describing the grammars of living Iranian languages, publishing texts, compiling dictionaries, and making translations. Gryunberg-Tsvetinovich authored around 100 scientific publications. Notable works include Outline of the Grammar of the Afghan Language (Pashto), published in Leningrad in 1987, and Afghanistan: Language Situation and Language Policy, published in the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Literature and Language series) in 1988. He was part of the academic staff at Saint Petersburg State University. He died on March 3, 1995, in Saint Petersburg.