On May 19, 2011, a prominent Russian philologist, linguist, Mongolian scholar, Doctor of Philology Maria Nikolaevna Orlovskaya turned 85 years old.

M. N. Orlovskaya (nee - Zhdannikova) was born in 1926 in the village of Mantrovo, Smolensk region. During the Great Patriotic War, she worked at a defense enterprise in Moscow, and at the same time studied at the school of working youth. In 1950, she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies and has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences ever since. She taught Mongolian at the Diplomatic Academy (VDS, 1960-1974), as well as at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1973-1974).

She received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences for her thesis " The main nominal parts of speech in the Mongolian language (nouns and adjectives) "(1953). The degree of Doctor of Philology was awarded for the report "The language of monuments of Mongolian writing (XIII-XIV centuries and XVII centuries)" (1995).

Maria Nikolaevna is a rare specialist in the field of text linguistics of monuments of the Mongolian script, as well as the largest researcher of the grammar of the Mongolian languages: Middle Mongolian (pre-classical), classical periods, as well as modern living (literary and non-written) Mongolian languages. She has published about 120 scientific papers, including 4 monographs. A number of articles have been published in English and Mongolian.

M. N. Orlovskaya's first monograph "Nouns and Adjectives in the modern Mongolian language" (19611) was published on the basis of her PhD thesis. The linguistic base of the monograph is socio-political, artistic, linguistic (educational) literature in the Mongolian language. In the Introduction, the author considered controversial issues of nominal parts of speech in the Mongolian language, which have not yet been resolved. Nouns and adjectives in the modern Mongolian language were studied by her in the aspects of word formation and inflection, as well as at lexical-semantic, morphological and syntactic levels, which allowed the author to explore the nature of the main parts of speech in the Mongolian language in a new, more meaningful interpretation. She wrote a large section "Noun" for the first academic " Grammar of the Buryat language "(1962).

In 1960-1970, a new direction in Mongolistics emerged - the study of language and grammar (text linguistics), monuments of the Mongolian script of the XIII-XIV centuries. Maria Nikolaevna began to develop this direction, studying monuments of the Mongolian script of the studied period, called linguistic source studies, in accordance with the research plan of the Institute of Oriental Languages of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the topic "Studying the history of languages of Eastern Countries".

So, M. N. Orlovskaya immersed herself in the study of the text "Altan Tobchi" by Lubsan Danzan, published by the Mongolian Scientific Committee of the MPR. Published in 1984, her monograph "The Altan Tobchi Language" marked the emergence of linguistic source studies in Mongolia in those years. Undoubtedly, "The Hidden Legend of the Mongols" and "Altan Tobchi" by Lubsan Danzan have a lot in common. She conducted a comparative analysis of these monuments in grammatical and lexical-semantic aspects. The author conducted a morphological analysis of the text "Altan Tobchi", revealing for linguists a lot of interesting and previously unknown things.

The book was not published for a long time, it appeared on the shelves only six years later. M. N. Orlovskaya's work was published in Inner Mongolia (China) in Chinese.

The monograph " The Language of Mongolian texts of the XIII-XIV centuries "(Moscow, 2000) is devoted to the description of the morphological structure of the preclassic Mongolian language. The author drew attention to the fact that,

that grammatical research of the language of early texts was most often limited to their publications, historical and philological commentaries on them, or the study of particular grammar issues with the involvement of some language data. M. N. Orlovskaya showed that the original grammatical system has basically survived to this day and that various morphological systems and categories are linked to a complete picture of the dynamics of the language, in its grammar. M. N. Orlovskaya's work is fundamentally different in its content and novelty from the works of her predecessors-N. N. Poppe, L. Ligeti, G. D. Sanzheev, Ts. B. Tsydendambayev, Tömörtoglu and others, as well as Turkologists and Altaists.

M. N. Orlovskaya's" Essays on the grammar of the language of ancient Mongolian texts " became the result of a study of the historical fate of the syllable and speech of the Mongolian language at the beginning of the XIII-XV centuries and a new achievement of post-Soviet Mongolistics.

M. N. Orlovskaya did not prepare a shift for herself, but the prospects of a new direction in the study of text grammar in Mongolian linguistics attracted other Buryat and Kalmyk linguists. Among them - N. D. Asirova, B. V. Badmaev, E. V. Bembeev, L. B. Badmaeva, B. D. Tsyrenov and others.

M. N. Orlovskaya was awarded several medals and a certificate of honor "For valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War" (1941-1945), the jubilee medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", etc.

Colleagues congratulate Maria Nikolaevna Orlovskaya on her anniversary, wish her good health and new achievements in her multifaceted scientific work for the benefit of the national and world Mongolian studies.

V. E. RADNAEV MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF M. N. ORLOVSKAYA*

The language of monuments of Mongolian writing of the XIII-XIV centuries. Moscow, 1994. 70 p.

The use of participles in the "Hidden legend" of the Mongols / / Philology and History of the Mongolian Peoples, Moscow, 1958, pp. 101-125.

Nouns and adjectives in the modern Mongolian language / Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Institute of Peoples of Asia, Moscow: IVL, 1961, 115 p.

Combinability of Mongolian Adverbs with Different Parts of Speech and their Place in the Sentence // Mongolian Studies. Budapest, 1970. P. 370-376.

Issledovaniya po vostochnoy filologii [Studies in Eastern Philology], Moscow, 1974. - Author's article: Methods of formation of derived adverbs in the Mongolian language, pp. 185-206; Use of the plural in the language "Altan Tobchi". Pp. 207-217.

O nekotorykh grammaticheskikh osobennostei yazyka "Altan tobchi" [On some grammatical features of the Altan Tobchi language]. 2. Series "Linguistics", Moscow, 1975, pp. 176-193.

Motivational verbs and motivational sound constructions in the classical Mongolian language / / Olon ulsyn mongol erdemtny III-r ikh khural (III International Congress of Mongol Studies), vol. 2. Ulaanbaatar, 1977, pp. 117-123.

Functions of the conjunctive gerund in the classical Mongolian language / / Voprosy grammaticheskoi sistemy mongol'skikh yazykov. Elista, 1980, pp. 3-19.

Newspaper and journalistic style as a functional variant of the modern Mongolian literary language // Variation as a property of the language system, Moscow, 1982, pp. 34-54.

On the question of word order in a simple sentence of the modern Mongolian language // Teoreticheskie problemy vostochnogo yazykoznaniya [Theoretical problems of Eastern Linguistics], ch. V. Moscow, 1982, pp. 118-124.

On the plural and accusative case in Mongolian languages in connection with the problem of electivity // Vostochnoe yazykoznanie: opektivnost ' [Eastern Linguistics: optional], Moscow, 1982, pp. 69-73.

On the question of word order in a simple sentence of the modern Mongolian language // Teoreticheskie problemy vostochnogo yazykoznaniya [Theoretical Problems of Eastern Linguistics], Part 5, Moscow, 1982, pp. 118-124.

Language "Altan tobchi" / Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1984, 235 p. The same in the Chinese language of Hohhot, 2004.

A set of word orders in a simple narrative sentence and some ways to update the members of the sentence as a whole-

* Comp. by V. E. Radnaev, O. A. Tutushina.

Vostochnoe yazykoznanie [Eastern Linguistics], Moscow, 1984, pp. 99-106.

Mongolia / / Foreign East (Language situation and language policy). Moscow, 1986, pp. 282-288.

Language contacts and lexical borrowings in the Mongolian language / / Lexical borrowings in the languages of the Foreign East, Moscow, 1986, pp. 139-150.

On the periodization of the history of the development of the Mongolian written literary language / / Mongolica: In memory of Academician B. Ya. Vladimirtsov (1884-1931). Moscow, 1986.pp. 80-90.

Place of adverbs in the system of parts of speech in Mongolian languages / / V International Congress of Mongol Studies (Ulaanbaatar, September 1987). Moscow, 1987. 2. Philologiya. pp. 103-112.

Mongolian linguistics in the USSR for 70 years/ / Soviet Linguistics (1917-1987), Moscow, 1987, pp. 140-159.

Ob imenakh na-či/čin v mongol'skikh yazykakh [About names in-či / čin in Mongolian languages]. Ulaanbaatar, 1987, pp. 157-169.

Garma Dantsarovich Sanzheev (1902-1982) / / Word about teachers, Moscow, 1988, pp. 117-127.

Izmeneniya v leksike i grammatike sovremennogo mongolskogo literaturnogo yazyka [Changes in the vocabulary and grammar of the modern Mongolian literary language]. Novosibirsk, 1988, pp. 128-134.

Mongolian linguistic traditions (XIII-early XX centuries) / / Linguistic traditions in the countries of the East, Moscow, 1988, pp. 152-155.

On grammaticalization of some lexical units in Mongolian languages / / Problems of Mongolian Philology. Elista, 1988, pp. 25-33.

Izmeneniya v leksike i grammatike sovremennogo mongolskogo literaturnogo yazyka [Changes in the vocabulary and grammar of the modern Mongolian literary language]. Novosibirsk, 1988, pp. 128-134.

A Set of Word-order Patterns in the Simple Declarative Sentence and Some Ways of Actualization of the Sentence Members in the Contemporary Mongolian Language. Linguistics. A Soviet Approach // Indian Journal of Linguistics. Calcutta. 1988. P. 318-329.

Language contacts and lexical borrowings in the Mongolian language / / Lexical borrowings in the languages of the Foreign East, Moscow, 1991, pp. 139-149.

Glagolnaya form na-juyuif-čuqui v doklassicheskom mongol'skom yazyke [The verb form in-juyuif-čuqui in the preclassical Mongolian language]. VI International Congress of Mongol Studies, part 2, Moscow, 1992, pp. 199-204.

Indo-Tibetan linguistic traditions in Mongolian linguistics / / Research on the history of Mongolian languages. Ulan-Ude Publ., 1993, pp. 86-94.

On the origin and etymology of Mongolian prohibitive particles / / VII International Congress of Mongol Studies. (Ulaanbaatar, August 1997). Moscow, 1997. pp. 132-136.

Old written Mongolian language // Languages of the world (Mongolian languages. Tungusic-Manchu languages. Japanese language. Korean language), Moscow, 1997, pp. 18-29.

The language of Mongolian texts. XIII-XIV centuries / Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, 1999, 182 p.

Forms of causative and the problem of the incentive voice in Mongolian languages / / General and Eastern Linguistics, Moscow, 1999, pp. 202-211.

On the etymology of negative particles in Mongolian languages (Based on ancient Mongolian texts) / / Altaica IV. Moscow, 2000, pp. 78-98.

Passiv i passivnye konstruktsii v drevnykh mongol'skikh tekstakh [Passive and passive constructions in ancient Mongolian texts]. Altaica V. M., 2001, pp. 109-126.

Sovremennyi mongol'skii literaturnyi yazyk (Istoriko-lingvisticheskii aspekt) [Modern Mongolian literary language (Historical and Linguistic aspect)]. Byul. 5. Moscow, 2001, pp. 231-254.

Adverbs and syntactic forms in Mongolian languages / / Eastern Linguistics. To the 80th anniversary of Yu. A. Rubinchik, Moscow, 2003, pp. 219-226.

Some means of expressing respect and respect in the Mongolian language (based on the language of ancient and classical texts) / / Sanzheyevsky Readings-5. Ulan-Ude Publ., 2003, part 1, pp. 10-15.

Uyghur-Mongolian writing and stages of its development // Altaica IX. Moscow, 2004. pp. 71-91.

Some models of word combinations in written Mongolian texts of the XIII-XIV centuries / / Altaica X. M., 2005. pp. 114-130.

Archaic verb a - (acu) and its evolution / / Vladimirtsovskiye chteniya, Moscow, 2006, pp. 180-191.

Information structures in the Ancient Mongolian and Classical Manchu languages (typological, ethnohistorical, and areal aspects). Societies of Orientalists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 17. Moscow, 2010, pp. 573-621 (together with L. M. Gorelova).

Ocherki po grammatike yazyka drevnykh mongol'skikh tekstov [Essays on grammar of the language of ancient Mongolian texts].

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