January 22, 2012 marked the 80th anniversary of the chief researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor V. N. Moskalenko, our good friend and colleague. Vladimir Nikolaevich was born in the village. Strelnya Leningrad region in the family of a career officer of the Soviet Army, a participant in the Finnish campaign and the Great Patriotic War. After graduating from the Eastern Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in Pakistani studies in 1955, Moskalenko joined the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences as an editor. In 1956, he was accepted to the Department of India (Pakistan sector) of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Being a representative of the first generation of domestic Pakistani studies, he remains faithful to this branch of Oriental science to this day. Starting work as a junior researcher, V. N. Moskalenko became a senior researcher in 1970, and in 1978 he became head of the Pakistan Sector of the Department of Near and Middle East Countries, which he led for more than 25 years. In 1967 V. N. Moskalenko was awarded the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences, in 1986-the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. He received the title of professor in 1990, and even earlier, in 1988, he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. The main direction of Vladimir Nikolaevich's scientific activity in the first years of his work at the Institute was the study of political and state construction in Pakistan. Special attention was paid to the formation of the first military regime in 1958 and its further evolution into a civil-military one. The results of this work are reflected in the book "The Political Situation in Pakistan" (1960), written jointly with one of the founders of the study of Pakistan in our country, Yu.V. Gankovsky, as well as in a series of articles and an individua ... Читать далее