On November 30, 2012, the life of a famous scientist, a beautiful woman and a wonderful person - Galina Ivanovna Slesarchuk-ended. A senior researcher at the Department of Korea and Mongolia of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, she was one of the leading Mongolian historians of Russia, widely recognized in our country and abroad. Galina Ivanovna joined the Institute of Oriental Studies in 1957 as a highly qualified archivist. She graduated from the postgraduate course of the Historical and Archival Institute, where she brilliantly defended her PhD thesis, and successfully worked for a number of years in the Archive of Ancient Acts. All this gave Galina Ivanovna the opportunity to immediately occupy her niche in the work of the Mongolian sector, to become the driving force behind the implementation of a major scientific and publishing project, namely, the compilation and preparation for publication of documentary materials on the history of Russian-Mongolian relations in the XVII century from the archives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Tyumen and Irkutsk. page 219 In different years, four volumes of these materials were published, covering almost the entire XVII century - from 1607 to 1690 inclusive. And if two more employees of the sector participated in the preparation of the first two volumes, the last two volumes were entirely the brainchild of G. I. Slesarchuk. Working on these volumes gave Galina Ivanovna a fundamental knowledge of the new history of Mongolia. In general, these volumes are of lasting importance as a first-class source, and their publication, introduction to scientific circulation of more than 570 documents with a total volume of 120 pp. enriched not only domestic, but also world Mongolian studies. And this is the main merit of G. I. Slesarchuk. Galina Ivanovna, a Russian scholar by training, acquired her deep knowledge of the modern history of Mongolia by working with M. I. Golman on the collection of documents "So ... Читать далее