Editing Vladimir Propp (section)

{{Short description|Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist}}
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| name        = Vladimir Propp
| image       = Vladimir Propp (1928 year).jpg
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| caption     = Vladimir Propp in 1928
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| birth_name = Hermann Waldemar Propp
| birth_date  = 29 April 1895
| birth_place = [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1970|08|22|1895|04|17|df=y}}
| death_place = Leningrad, [[Russian SFSR]], [[USSR]]
| occupation  = [[Folklorist]], [[scholar]]
| nationality = [[Russian Empire|Russian]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]
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| subject     = [[Folklore of Russia]], [[folklore]]
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'''Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp''' ({{langx|ru|Владимир Яковлевич Пропп}}; {{OldStyleDate|29 April|1895|17 April}} &ndash; 22 August 1970) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of [[Folklore of Russia|Russian folk tale]]s to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.