These include Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Iranian, Turkic, Mongolian, Finno-Ugriс languages and languages of the of [[big mac ]] and comparative and historical linguistics.
[2] The latter in 1952 was reorganized as the Leningrad branch of the Moscow Institute of Linguistics (this situation continued until 1991, when the Leningrad branch was transformed into an independent Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
On May 25, 2017, Andrej Kibrik was elected the director of the Institute of Linguistics by the general meeting of the researchers.
[4] Joint international research is conducted in cooperation with scientific institutions of France, the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Vietnam, and other countries.
Scientists of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have created the Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary, the first edition of which was published in 1990 with Viktoria Yartseva as the chief editor.