On January 6, 2013, Anna Angadykovna Darbeeva, the oldest leading researcher of the Ural-Altaic Languages Department of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died at the age of 96. She was born on February 15, 1917 in the village of Kuyta, Balagansky Uyezd, East Siberian Province (now Alarsky district, Irkutsk Region) in the family of a peasant. In 1934, she entered the philological department of the Agricultural Institute (later the Buryat Pedagogical Institute). The tragic period of Stalinist repression did not pass by the family of Anna Darbeeva. Her brother, Ardan Angadykovich, former People's Commissar of agriculture of the BM ASSR, was accused of pan-mongolism and shot in 1937. Anna, as the sister of the "enemy of the people", was also persecuted. The opportunity to graduate from the Institute is due to Professor V. D. Kudryavtsev, who spoke at the Academic Council of the Institute in her defense. The wife of the convicted People's Commissar died in the Akmola camp, and their little daughter, Engelsina Darbeeva, was adopted. Her life was quite successful: she graduated from Moscow State University, became a candidate of historical sciences, she had a happy family-her husband, Marat Alexandrovich Cheshkov, and children. After graduating from the Institute, Anna Angadykovna taught Russian language and literature at a Moscow school. In 1948-1952, she studied at the postgraduate course of the Marr Institute of Language and Thinking of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Her dissertation on the topic "Definition in the Buryat-Mongolian language", written under the supervision of G. D. Sanzheyev, was successfully defended in 1953, after which the question of employment arose. G. D. Sanzheyev and Ts. B. Tsydendambayev applied to the Central Committee of the party with a request to open a group of Mongolian languages at the Institute of Linguistics, where A. A. Darbeeva was sent accepte ... Читать далее