On April 1, 2013, it became known about the tragic death in the mountains of Yulia Sinelina, one of the leading Russian sociologists of religion and a member of the Editorial Board of our magazine. In recent years, she was Head of the Department of Sociology of Religion at the Institute of Socio-Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where she conducted research on the religious situation in modern Russia. There was a well-known seminar on the sociology of religion, which she taught for many years at the Sociology Department of Moscow State University. It was almost the only discussion platform in Russia where Russian sociologists of religion could regularly gather. An article by Mikhail Smirnov, a St. Petersburg sociologist of religion, is devoted to understanding the scientific work of Yulia Sinelina. page 291 Mikhail Smirnov The Scholar's Personality in Russian Sociology of Religion. In Memory of Yulia Sinelina Mikhail Smirnov - Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. - Petersburg. mirsnov55@yandex.ru The article is devoted to the main components of scientific activity of Russian sociologist Yulia Yurievna Sinelina (1972 - 2013). She was a well-known researcher of secularization in Russia, particularly the problems of interaction between modern society and religion. Her special attention was devoted to the application of theoretical and methodological investigations in sociology of religion to the religious situation in Russia. Keywords: Yu. Yu. Sinelina, sociology of religion, secularization, religious situation. There are various religions in RUSSIA, both widely spread and with a small number of followers, and this is quite well known. There is a sociology in Russia. And it is also more or less known, at least to a significant part of the population. In Russia, there are various sciences that study religions and collectively referred to as religious studies. This is already known much less and s ... Читать далее