Elvira A. Grunina, Professor of the Department of Turkic Philology at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Philology, was born on November 26, 1926 in Moscow. This was the generation for which adolescence ended on June 22, 1941. The time when it was easy and joyful to study, it was possible to attend a circle of young naturalists, choir classes ended. In January 1942, Training courses were opened for senior classes, including at the Timiryazev Academy, where Elvira Alexandrovna passed the program of the tenth grade. The factor of the "school of naturalists" played a role: E. A. Grunina's student life began in Timiryazevka, at the Department of breeding. But gradually there were doubts: whether the choice was made correctly. And even an A in math was more likely to confirm that the choice was wrong. After passing the exams for the first year and even passing the "tractor" practice, she is still a student-went again to take the entrance exams to the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. The conditions were tough: it was necessary to score 25 points out of 25 possible. According to Elvira Aleksandrovna, she was just lucky: her hand passed the tickets with questions on subjects that were not taught in Training courses. To be fair, the choice of the Eastern Department at the Faculty of Philology was not made seriously: the inspiration came at the symphony concert, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade was performed. But the choice of specialization-already at the Eastern Department-was meaningful. In his memory were recollections of the Turkologist T. N. Grunin about his teachers and fellow Orientalists, his stories about Turkmenistan, where he worked in the Committee of the new Alphabet, as well as about the decoding of Armenian-language Polovtsian documents in the group of Academician A. E. Krymsky in Ukraine (almost twenty years later, E. A. Grunina will take part in the preparation for the publication this work) ... Читать далее