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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Japanese language education in Russia |
 | | Japanese language education suffered a severe setback during the Great Purge, when many Russians with overseas contacts or knowledge of foreign languages were stripped of their jobs, imprisoned, and even executed, on suspicions of espionage. |
| | Notable scholars killed during this period include Yevgeny Polivanov, designer of the official system for the Cyrillization of Japanese, and Nikolai Nevskii, who specialised in Okinawan studies. |
| | Later, during the Khruschev era, increasing numbers of Russians began again to go to Japan as international students, but few returned to the Soviet Union after completing their studies, and even fewer of those became teachers, due to the low salaries. |
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