Lydia Petrovna Vasikova (May 28, 1927 – October 28, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian Finno-Ugric linguist, the first among Mari women, who became a Doctor of Science (1985), a professor (1986), an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1995), and a holder of the Order of the Cross of the Land of Mary (Estonia).
[1] She was born on May 28, 1927, in the village of Pernyangashi of the Paygusovsky rural settlement of the Gornomariysky District of the Mari ASSR.
[1][2] On October 28, 2012, she died in an accident on the 14th kilometer of the Yoshkar-Ola – Kozmodemyansk road.
Her textbooks on the Mari and Russian languages are used by university and school teachers.
She was a member of the specialized council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations in the Finno-Ugric languages.