MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES The conference dedicated to the memory of the Russian Japanese scientist Nikolai Alexandrovich Syromyatnikov (1911-1984) was held on December 14, 2011, on the day of the centenary of the scientist. The conference was attended by orientalists from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ISAA MSU, RSUH and other scientific institutions. N. A. Syromyatnikov worked for more than 30 years at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, studying various aspects of the Japanese language from the functioning of the tenses system to the features of phonetics and punctuation, as well as the processes of its formation and development. His works devoted to the language of early Japanese monuments, such as The Ancient Japanese Language (Moscow, 1972) and Classical Japanese (Moscow, 1983), have not lost their significance. At the same time, N. A. Syromyatnikov is also known as a lexicographer who participated in the compilation of the most important Japanese-Russian dictionaries of the XX century. Several reports were devoted to the personality of the scientist. In his report "N. A. Syromyatnikov as a major Japanese scientist and an outstanding person", L. R. Kontsevich (Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences) introduced the audience to the main milestones in the biography of N. A. Syromyatnikov and his scientific activities. N. A. Syromyatnikov's student E. G. Azerbayev, co-author of the " Japanese-Russian Dictionary of Radio Electronics "(Moscow, 1981), shared his memories of meeting N. A. Syromyatnikov. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy V. M. Alpatov, Director of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in his report "Something about N. A. Syromyatnikov's personality", noted that modesty and naivety in everyday life coexisted with determination and uncompromising attitude ... Читать далее