Laboratory for Computational Lexicography came into existence on April 24, 1964 as "Structural Typology of Languages and Linguistic Statistics Laboratory". It was founded by two young Candidates of Philology who had just got their scientific degrees Boris Andreevich Uspensky and Vladislav Mitrofanovich Andruschenko as interdepartmental laboratory based on three departments: the English Language Department of the Philological Faculty, Foreign Languages Department for the Humanities and Arabic Department of the Institute for Asia and Africa. In 1968 the Laboratory changed its name for "Computational Linguistics Laboratory" and became interfaculty. Since 1988 it is known as the Laboratory for Computational Lexicography.
Vladislav Mitrofanovich Andruschenko was at the Head of the Laboratory from 1964 till 1983. Professor, Doctor of Philology Valery Zackievich Demiankov headed the Laboratory in 1993-2007. Since 2007 Candidate of Philological Sciences Olga Anatolievna Kazackevich is the Head of the Laboratory.
Typological research in languages based on computer technology was the primary problem of the scholars from the very beginning. This conception is kept up to now. But computer technologies have been developing since that time, the staff and equipment of the Laboratory have changed. As a result contemporary research projects appeared and are carried out in the Laboratory nowadays.
Vladislav Mitrofanovich Andruschenko — the founder and first Head of the Laboratory
Valery Zackievich Demiankov (in the centre) — Head of the Laboratory in 1993-2007 and the staff