Tatiana Dorofeeva (linguist)

Tatiana Valerianovna Dorofeeva (Russian: Татьяна Валериановна Дорофеева; January 25, 1948, Penza – January 29, 2012) was a Russian linguist, orientalist and translator.

Graduated from Institute of Oriental Languages (part of Moscow State University) in 1970. In 1972 she started to teach Malay at the Institute of Asian and African Studies.

Tatiana Dorofeeva wrote a number of important works on Malay linguistics. She was a co-author of the textbook of the Malay language (2006) and the Great Malay-Russian Dictionary (2013).