Nina Dobrushina (Russian: Добрушина, Нина Роландовна; born 28 September 1968) is a linguist from Russia specializing in linguistic typology, sociolinguistics, and the study of languages of Dagestan (Russia).

Dobrushina received her Candidate degree from the Department of Theoretical Linguistics at Moscow State University in 1995. In 2003, she joined the Higher School of Economics as an assistant professor, and in 2011, she became a full professor.^[1] For five years, she headed the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory at HSE.^[2] Since 2022, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen.^[3]

Dobrushina's contributions are primarily in the areas of Russian grammar, linguistic typology and the study of the languages of Dagestan.

In the area of grammar, her specialization is mood forms such as optatives and subjunctives,^[4] and she first became well known with her contribution on optatives to the World Atlas of Language Structures.^[5]

Over the last decade, Dobrushina has focused on the study of multilingualism and language contact in Dagestan.^[6] She was a co-organizer of the first conference on small-scale multilingualism^[7] and is a co-founder of this new subfield of multilingualism studies.^[8]

Dobrushina is one of the founders of the book series “Languages of the Caucasus”, the first open-access series in this area (published by Language Science Press).^[9]

Nina Dobrushina is the daughter of the mathematician Roland Dobrushin.^{[citation needed]}