The main milestones in the biography of the outstanding Mongolian scholar and Buddhist figure, the oldest employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the long-term head of the Mongolian sector, Sanje Dantsikovich Dylykov, are as follows. He was born on May 15, 1912 in the village of Kharashibir in the Zaigraevsky district of Buryatia in the family of a peasant. In 1932, he graduated from the Far Eastern University's Faculty of Oriental Studies with a degree in Chinese history and spent two years teaching at the Leningrad Oriental Institute. In 1934, he became a post-graduate student in Mongolia at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since that year, his entire creative life has been connected with Mongolian studies. Here he completed his postgraduate studies in 1938, and here, after a short break, he worked as a junior researcher, went through an excellent school, studying and collaborating with such luminaries of Mongolian studies as N. N. Poppe, S. A. Kozin, V. I. Pankratov, and Ts.Zh. Zhamtsarano. In September 1941, S. D. Dylykov was sent to political work in the Red Army, during the war he served in the Far East, participated in the defeat of militaristic Japan. For military services, Colonel S. D. Dylykov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the Order of the Red Star and many medals. After demobilization in June 1950, he returned to the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences and devoted himself entirely to scientific work, combining it with the duties of a scientific secretary until 1953. From 1953 to 1979, S. D. Dylykov was the head of the Mongolian Branch of the Institute of Internal Affairs of the Academy of Sciences. He and his colleagues, other Mongolists of the sector - I. Ya. Zlatkin, N. P. Shastina, G. I. Mikhailov, I. T. Vargin, A. M. Pechnikov, A. T. Yakimov-then formed the color and pride of Russian orientalism and made the Mongolian sector th ... Читать далее