George Vladimir Bobrinskoy[note 1] (Russian: Георгий Владимир Бобринской) was a Russian-born American sanskritist.
He was professor emeritus in the departments of linguistics, Slavic languages and South Asian literature and civilization at the University of Chicago.
[2] After the Russian Revolution he left his country at the end of the Civil war, fighting in the ranks of the Preobrajensky Guards regiment, and thereafter immigrated to the United States in 1923.
[5] During the Second World War, the University of Chicago was selected as a Center for Russian language and area instruction under the Army Specialized Training Program.
After the death of Samuel Northrup Harper the chairman of the Russian department in January 1943, Bobrinskoy his associate was asked to head the Russian-language program.