September 1, 2013 marked the 75th anniversary of V. E. Radnaev, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Department of Asian and African Languages of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Buryatia. V. E. Radnaev was born on September 1, 1938 in the family of a rural employee in the village of Argada in the Barguzin aimag of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR (now the Republic of Buryatia). After graduating from Argadinsky secondary school, he studied at the Kansk Library Technical School of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the direction of the Department of Culture of the aimag. He worked in Buryatia in the editorial office of the newspaper "Barguzinskaya Pravda", in libraries and schools. He graduated from the courses of working correspondents at the editorial office of the newspaper "Power of Soviets" of the Kansk CC of the CPSU. It was published in local and national newspapers. He studied for two years at the D. Banzarov Buryat Pedagogical Institute, and then transferred to the Mongolian Department of the Eastern Faculty of Leningrad State University, graduating in 1968. For some time he worked at the Buryat Institute of Social Sciences (now the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology) of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968-1972). He completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972-1975), defended his PhD thesis (1976). From 1977, Radnaev worked in Moscow at the Institute of National Schools of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR (now the Federal Institute of Regional Education (FIRO)) until March 1982; taught Mongolian at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1986-1987), at the Higher courses of Foreign Languages (HQII) at the State Committee for Economic Relations of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, at similar courses under t ... Читать далее