Commission for the Study of the Tribal Composition of the Population of the Borderlands of Russia
The commission was composed of twelve leading Russian Ethnographers based in St Petersburg: Aleksey Shakhmatov , Mikhail Diakonov , Nikolai Marr , Vasily Bartold , Vladimir Peretts , Evfimii Karskii from the Academy of Sciences , Sergei Rudenko and Fedor Volkov from the Anthropological Society of St Petersburg University , Andrei Rudnev and Lev Shcherba from the University's Philological Society and David Zolotarev and Nikolai Mogiliansky from the Russian Geographical Society's Ethnographic Division . 
<triplet> Aleksey Shakhmatov <subj> St Petersburg University <obj> employer <triplet> Nikolai Marr <subj> St Petersburg University <obj> employer <triplet> Vasily Bartold <subj> St Petersburg University <obj> educated at <triplet> Sergei Rudenko <subj> St Petersburg University <obj> employer <triplet> Fedor Volkov <subj> St Petersburg University <obj> employer <triplet> St Petersburg University <subj> St Petersburg <obj> located in the administrative territorial entity <triplet> Lev Shcherba <subj> St Petersburg University <obj> educated at <triplet> Russian Geographical Society <subj> St Petersburg <obj> located in the administrative territorial entity