At the origins of the Komi dialectology as a science

The Komi dialectology originated in the XIX century as the scientists compiled their first lexicographic works and is associated with the names of famous researchers P.I. Savvaitov, N.P. Popov, F.I. Videman, G.S. Lytkin and others. Towards the second half of the XX century, the lexicography of the Komi language was a successfully developing scientific sphere. In the 1960s-1980s, unique dialectological materials were first introduced into scientific circulation in form of separate monographic works on the Upper Vychegda, Syktyvkar, Upper Sysola, Izhma, Pechora, Lower Vychegda, Middle Sysola, Luza-Letka, Udora dialects. This was possible by efforts of the researchers who stood at the origins of the Komi linguistic science. One of them is Tatiana Ivanovna Zhilina, a qualified specialist in the field of the Komi dialectology and lexicography, Candidate of Philological Sciences. The lexical materials accumulated by her in numerous expeditions to the basins of the Vym, Vychegda, Sysola, Luza, Letka Rivers, as well as to the Trans-Ural and Kama regions, contain more than 100 thousand units and are a reliable empirical base, the national word stock of the Komi language. In spite of the lack of proper technical equipment at that time, the professionalism and conscientious attitude to work of Tatiana Ivanovna do not allow us to doubt the reliability of the obtained results today. There are no analogues among the Finno-Ugric centers in Russia yet and they are not expected to appear in the foreseeable future.