Author: Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba
Born: 3 March [O.S. 20 February] 1880
Died: 26 December 1944
Bio: Lev Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба) was a Russian Empire and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specialising in phonetics and phonology.