Martiros Aslanov

Martiros Grigoryevich Aslanov was the founder of the Moscow school of Pashto studies in Russia.
Aslanov worked in the Soviet embassy in Afghanistan from 1930 to 1939; Aslanov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1942, in 1946 he became a scientific collaborator of the Institute of Language and Cognition, where he worked until 1950, when he proceeded to work in the Institute of Oriental Studies. From 1958 to 1967 he worked at the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Aslanov published around 50 works, including the Pashto-Russian dictionary.