<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>as reported recently on the Uralistica website and on the Estonian UGRIMUGRI list (see below): Lidiya Petrovna Vasikova, professor of Mari State University, linguist and outstanding researcher of the Mari language, was killed yesterday, hit by a car.</div><div><br></div><div>Born 1927, Lidiya Vasikova was the first Mari woman ever to obtain a PhD and become a university professor. Like many native-speaker Finno-Ugrists of Russia, she studied in Tartu with Paul Ariste in the 1950s; for her merits and her interest in Estonia and the Finno-Ugric kindred peoples, she was later decorated with the Terra Mariana Cross of the Republic of Estonia. Lidiya Vasikova was a versatile linguist with a wide range of publications in contrastive, Russian and Mari linguistics, also known for her devoted work to promote her native Hill Mari language.</div><div><br></div><div>Lidiya Vasikova will be sorely missed by many Mari, Finno-Ugric and Russian linguists, colleagues, students and friends.</div><div><br></div><div>JL</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<div><br><div>Välitetty viesti alkaa:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Lähettäjä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Tõnu Seilenthal <<a href="mailto:tonu.seilenthal@ut.ee">tonu.seilenthal@ut.ee</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[ugrimugri:1753] Kurb uudis</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Päivämäärä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">29. lokakuuta 2012 9.31.18 UTC+1.00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:ugrimugri@lists.ut.ee">ugrimugri@lists.ut.ee</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Vastaus: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:ugrimugri@lists.ut.ee">ugrimugri@lists.ut.ee</a><br></span></div><br><div>Eile lahkus traagiliselt meie hulgast Lidia Vasikova, Maarjamaa Risti kavaler, esimesi hõimurahvaste esindajaid Tartus (1951-1954) Paul Ariste eduka aspirandina .<br><br><a href="http://uralistica.com/profiles/blogs/tragicheski-pogibla-lidija-vasikova">http://uralistica.com/profiles/blogs/tragicheski-pogibla-lidija-vasikova</a><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>