On August 21, 2010, after a short serious illness, a prominent Oriental scholar, a well-known Mongol scholar, a rare expert on a wide range of problems of the history and current situation of Mongolia and Northeast Asia, a chief researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Humanitarian Studies, Associate Professor, translator, literature Galina Sergeevna Yaskina (Matveeva). G. S. Yaskina devoted her entire adult life to studying the Mongolian language, history, economy, culture and literature of Mongolia, which she loved and knew very well. Russian Mongolian and Oriental studies have suffered a heavy loss. Galina Sergeevna was born on January 2, 1932 in Slavyansk, Donetsk region of the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1954, she worked at the Central Komsomol School under the Central Committee of the Komsomol, first as a translator of the Mongolian language (1954-1957), and then as a teacher of political economy (1966-1969). In 1957, she joined the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences / RAS, where she worked with a short break for almost 50 years. She published more than 200 scientific and other publications, including 14 monographs, sections in collective monographs, dozens of articles on topical issues of history, economy, culture, foreign policy and the current situation of Mongolia in the XX-early XXI centuries, as well as political and socio-economic problems of the development of the Republic of Korea and China Vietnam, North Korea, Malaysia, international political and economic relations in the Asia-Pacific region and NEA. Her first major independent scientific work, the monograph "Socialist Transformations in the Agriculture of the Mongolian People's Republic "(1960), served as the basis for page 209 for the defense of his dissertation for th ... Читать далее