title: Olga Stolbova
text: # Olga Stolbova
  
  Olga Valerevna Stolbova (Russian - О́льга Вале́рьевна Столбо́ва) (born 6 April 1947) is a Russian and Soviet linguist, known for her work on the Chadic languages. She received her Doctor of Sciences in 1998. Stolbova is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a representative of the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics.
  
  