Vladimir Napolskikh
Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh is a Russian ethnographer, ethnologist, ethnohistorian, Finno-Ugrist and linguist. Doctor of Historical Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Napolskikh was based at the Udmurt State University until 2015, then moved to Kazan, then joined the staff of the RANEPA in Moscow. He has published extensively on early Finno-Ugric loanwords from the Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Indo-Iranian languages. Among his better known theories is the existence of a distinct Balto-Slavic group on the Middle Volga that influenced the early Permic languages.
He has served on the editorial board of the journal Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia.