September 7, 2010 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of a prominent Russian scholar of Mongolian studies, Chief Researcher of the Korea and Mongolia Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences Sergey Konstantinovich Roshchin. S. K. Roshchin devoted almost all his adult life to science, one of the main directions of modern Russian Mongolian studies - the study of the history and economy of Mongolia in the XX century. S. K. Roshchin has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences/RAS since 1956. At the Institute, he worked his way up from a post-graduate student to the chief researcher and head of the Mongolia sector, whose scientific works are well known not only in Russia, but also in Mongolia, China, Germany, the USA, Japan and other countries. He is the author of more than 80 scientific publications, including 6 individual monographs, a number of chapters and sections in large collective monographs, and a large number of scientific articles. Sergey Konstantinovich Roshchin was born on September 7, 1930 in the village of Domnino, Susaninsky district, Kostroma region, to a working-class family. He received a higher Oriental education at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies (1948-1953), majoring in Oriental studies with knowledge of Mongolian and English. According to the memoirs of S. K. Roshchin, his choice of Mongolian as the main Eastern language was influenced by the famous Mongolian scholar-philologist G. D. Sanzheev. At the meeting of the IIV admissions committee, when asked what Eastern language he would like to study, S. K. Roshchin did not hesitate to answer that it was Chinese. Meanwhile, an experienced orientalist and teacher G. D. Sanzheev, who was a member of the commission, noticed that even at that time (1948) the applicant was wearing glasses and said that with weak eyesight it would be difficult for him ... Читать далее