Nikolai Ostroumov

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

Nikolai Ostroumov
Николай Остроумов
Born(1846-11-15)15 November 1846
Sasovo, Yelatma Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died17 November 1930(1930-11-17) (aged 84)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union

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]

References
  1. Islam in the Russian Federation and the Post Soviet Republics: a Historical perspective by Spyros Plakoudas, p 31
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