Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (died 1999)

Yuri Knorozov

Soviet and Russian linguist (1922–1999)

Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist. He is best known for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.