# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/afanasy-selishchev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:10:45.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/afanasy-selishchev"
name: "Afanasy Selishchev"
slug: "afanasy-selishchev"
description: "Afanasiy Matveyevich Selishchev was a prominent Russian linguist, specialist in the field of Slavic languages and Slavic dialectology. He was a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Soviet sociolinguist and dialectologist (1886-1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danilov_Cemetery_20170314_131203.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1886-01-11"
deathDate: "1942-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.741325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Афанасий Селищев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%88%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%9E"
    title: "Афанасій Мацвеевіч Сялішчаў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Афанасий Селишчев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afanasiy_Selishchev"
    title: "Afanasiy Selishchev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%98_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Афанасиј Селишчев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Селищев, Афанасий Матвеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afanasi_Selishchev"
    title: "Afanasi Selishchev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4413894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump