Olga Iosifovna Blinova (Russian: О́льга Ио́сифовна Блино́ва; née Leytan; 7 November 1930 – 2 July 2020) was a Soviet and Russian linguist. The daughter of Iosif Ignatievich Leytan (1890-1970), deputy director of the Omskaya Pravda publishing house, and Filiziya (or Felitsata) Vikentyevna Leytan (née Ludzish; 1898-1979), Blinova had three brothers. She graduated from the Tomsk State University, where she later served as a professor of Philology. Blinova died in Tomsk on 2 July 2020, aged 89. Awards State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation Recipient of the Order of Honour (Russia) References 1930 births 2020 deaths People from Kemerovo Oblast Linguists from Russia Women linguists Linguists from the Soviet Union 20th-century linguists Russian women academics Dialectologists Russian studies scholars Tomsk State University alumni Academic staff of Tomsk State University State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates Honoured Scientists of the Russian Federation Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) 20th-century Russian women