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Zolotnitsky Nickolay (1829–1880) – specialist in Chuvask language and culture, in Turkic studies, a social activist. He was born in the Chuvash vil. of Churashevo, in the family of a priest. In 1851, he graduated from the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Kazan’ University. After it was at the state service; since 1865 – at the Ministry of People’s Education: at first in the Vyatka Region, later – in the Kazan’ Educational District. He was one of the first researchers of Chuvash language, the first one, who started its classification – and he referred it to the Turkic group.