Russian philology suffered a heavy and irreplaceable loss - on July 8, 2013, Nikolai Tsedenovich Bitkeev, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Kalmyk State University (KSU), folklorist, literary critic and teacher of the Higher school of the Russian Federation, corresponding member (2001) and Vice-President (2009) of the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education, died. Nikolay Tsedenovich Bitkeev is the author of 373 works, including 28 books. Nikolai Tsedenovich was a general specialist, whose research interests included the study of folklore and folklore studies, literature and literary studies, Kalmyks ' ethnic culture and ethnopedagogy. N. C. Bitkeev was born on May 25, 1943 in the village of Ovata in the Republic of Kalmykia. Together with the family (at the age of seven months) He was deported to Siberia. His childhood years were spent in the Omsk region in Shcherbakulsky, and then in Poltava districts; in 1957, after rehabilitation, Kalmykov returned home with his family and graduated from a seven-year school. In 1959, he entered the Kalmyk Pedagogical College. N. TS Bitkeev collected ethnographic materials and recorded folklore. The problems of epic creativity of the Kalmyks, their songs and other genres of folklore were the subject of intense interest, which was aroused in him under the influence of classes on oral folk art conducted by I. M. Matsakov. After graduating from the university, he was sent to work at the Kalmyk Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (KNIYALI) to the sector for the study of oral folk art. Here he studied the heroic epic "Jangar", and a year later entered the postgraduate course of the Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI) of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department for the study of the epic of the peoples of the USSR. During his studies at IMLI, Nikolai Tsedenovich received page 215 a good theoretical background in folklore studies and literary studies at the Lomonosov Moscow State Univer ... Читать далее