| Caption: | Leonid Murzin |
| Leonid Murzin | |
| Birth Date: | 27 May 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, USSR |
| Death Place: | Perm, Russia |
| Main Interests: | Linguistics, derivatology, culturology |
| Alma Mater: | Kuybyshev Pedagogical Institute (now Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities), 1952 |
Leonid Nikolayevich Murzin (Russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Мурзи́н, pronounced as /ru/; May 27, 1930 – October 13, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, the Dean of philological faculty[1] at Perm State University (1964–1967), the founder and the head of General and Slavonic linguistics department at Perm State University; the head of Perm derivatology school; he founded the Institute of dynamic linguistics. Perm derivatology school encouraged the development of such linguistic school as "Computer based simulation of verbal communication".[2]