A significant contribution to the development of Oriental studies was made not only by scientists from Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also by orientalists from research centers of the former Soviet republics. One of these centers was the Luhansk Pedagogical Institute (now the Luhansk State Pedagogical University named after V. I. Abramovich). Taras Shevchenko University), opened in 1923. This is the oldest pedagogical university in Donbass. It was hardly possible to foresee that in time it could become one of the Soviet, and later Ukrainian, centers of Oriental studies. Indeed, we have no information that until the 60s of the last century, any of the teachers of the Faculty of History established in 1934 (from 1951 to 1969 - History and Philology) showed an interest in the East. Among them are authoritative experts on the history and ethnography of Ukraine (N. Y. Mirza-Avakyants, S. G. Hrushevsky, etc.). The exception, perhaps, is the famous archaeologist and local historian, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences S. A. Loktyushev. On certain issues, he inevitably turned to materials about nomads and continuity in the process of settling the Donetsk steppes, as he studied the monuments of this region. In the early 1960s, there was a need for specialists in world (universal) history. At that time, the leading teachers of this discipline were A. N. Milanich, V. G. Pichugin, G. S. Soroka, and others. They gave lectures on the history of the peoples of Asia and Africa, on the history of Europe and America, and prepared methodological materials. Major changes began to occur in the mid-1960s. As a teacher of the history of the Ancient World and the history of the Middle Ages, V. M. Beilis began his activity at the Institute. He was a graduate of Kiev University, chosen by competition in 1964. In 1940-1941 and 1947-1950, he studied Arabic under the guidance of Professor T. G. Kezma, an Arabist, whose activities have recently been reflected in scientific literature and per ... Читать далее