Dmitry D. Pavlovets

 EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Born (1950) and raised in the Pinsk region in a large peasant family worked on the farm, served in the Soviet Army, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Gomel State University (1976) specialty "Belarusian language and literature, Russian language and literature". PhD thesis: "Interaction of Church and Belarusian languages in XVII-XVIII centuries." (1985). Associate Professor of the Belarusian culture and folklore chair. Specialization is the story of the Belarusian language and its relationship with other Slavic.

There are more than 150 publications in scientific and popular publications ("Belarusian linguistics", "Belarusian language" Lim, "Flame", "Native Word", "Russian language"), local history materials in national and local newspapers. Co-author of "The Russian-Belarusian dictionary sports terms" (Minsk, 1995), "The Folklore dictionary Gomel Region" (Gomel, 1998), the book "Light of spiritual values. Zhlobinsky Region: Past and Present" (edited by V. Novak, A . A. Stankevich) (Homel, 2009).

RESEARCH AREAS

Belarusian onomastics, the issues of speech, the history of Belarusian culture, formation of the Belarusian orthography, local lore.