Martiros Aslanov

Martiros Grigoryevich Aslanov (Russian: Мартирос Григорьевич Асланов; 1897–1977) was the founder of the Moscow school of Pashto studies in Russia. He worked in the Soviet embassy in Afghanistan from 1930-1939; Aslanov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1942, in 1946 he became a scientific collaborator of the Institute of Language and Cognition, where he worked until 1950, when he proceeded to work in the Institute of Oriental Studies (1950-1958). From 1958-1967 he worked at the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Aslanov published around 50 works, including the Pashto-Russian dictionary.