Nikolai Ostroumov

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Nikolai Ostroumov
Николай Остроумов
Born(1846-11-15)15 November 1846
Died17 November 1930(1930-11-17) (aged 84)

Nikolai Petrovich Ostroumov (Russian: Николай Петрович Остроумов; 1846–1930) was an imperial Russian orientalist, ethnographer and educationalist in Turkestan.

He studied under Nikolai Il'minskii at the Kazan Theological Seminary, where he studied Arabic and Turkic languages as well as Islam.[1]

He was editor of Turkistan Wilayatining Gazeti from 1883 to 1917.[1]

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