A year later he was elected Academician-Secretary of the Department of Literature and Language Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 1992-The Russian Academy of Sciences) and is a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A year later he was elected Academician-Secretary of the Department of Literature. A year later he was elected Language Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 1992-The Russian Academy of Sciences). A year later he is a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.