On May 21, 2015, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "Vostok (Oriens)", Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Vitaly Naumkin turned 70.

Today, Vitaly Vyacheslavovich is essentially the "face of Russian Oriental studies". A major Islamic scholar, Orientalist, political scientist, historian, archaeologist and linguist, Vitaly Vyacheslavovich combines his scientific work with administrative work. For seventeen years, since 1998, he has been the head of our journal, since 2003 he has been the Head of the Department of Regional Studies at the Faculty of World Politics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and since 2009-the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2011 Vitaly Vyacheslavovich was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 2014, V. V. Naumkin, together with his Arabist colleagues, published a writing system that had been developed for several years for the previously non-written language of the inhabitants of Socotra Island - the Socotrians. This scientific discovery was ranked second among the biggest scientific achievements of the year by the BBC survey.

The editorial board and editorial board of the magazine "Vostok (Oriens)" congratulate Vitaly Vyacheslavovich on his birthday, wish him good health, further scientific discoveries and achievements!

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF V. V. NAUMKIN ¹

Where the Phoenix bird was born, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1977, 134 p.

Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. Resurrection of the Sciences of Faith. Ihya '' Uloom ad-Din / translated from Arabic, research. Moscow: Nauka; GRVL, 1980 (Pamyatniki pismennosti Vostoka 47), 376 p. (in Russian)

The National Front in the struggle for the independence of South Yemen and National Democracy (1963-1969). Moscow: Nauka; GRVL, 1980. 280 p.

Essays on the ethnolinguistics of Socotra, Moscow: Nauka; GRVL, 1981 (in collaboration with V. Ya. Porkhomovsky). 128 s.

Socotrians. Istoriko-etnograficheskiy ocherk [Historical and ethnographic essay], Moscow: Nauka; GRVL, 1988, 302 p.

Island of the Phoenix (An Ethnographic Study of the People of Socotra (Middle East Cultures: Yemen). Ithaca: Paul & Co Pub Consortium, 1993. 432 p.

Central Asia and Transcaucasia: Ethnicity and Conflict. Westport London: Greenwood, 1994 (editor and co-author). XIII, 242 p.

Central Asia: State, Religion, Society: A Post-Soviet Critique. Reading, N.Y.: Ithaca Press, 1994 (editor and co-author). XV, 289 p.

The Middle East conflict: from documents of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation. Vol. 1-2. Vol. 1. 1947-1956. 603 p. Vol. 2. 1957-1967. 701 p. Moscow: International Fund "Democracy", 2003.

"Red Wolves" of Yemen: the National Front in the Revolution, Moscow, 2003, 379 p.

Red Wolves of Yemen: The Struggle for Independence. Cambridge: Oleander, 2004. XIX, 393 p.

¹ For a list of V. V. Naumkin's works up to 2005, see: Vostok (Oriens). 2005. N 3, pp. 202-2007.

Russian Oriental Studies: current research on past and present Asian and African societies / Ed. by Vitaly Naumkin. Leiden-Boston: E.J. Brill, 2004. X, 301 p.

Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle, Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 336 p.

Islam and Muslims: Culture and Politics (articles, essays and reports from different years). Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod: Medina Publ., 2008, 767 p.

Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. "Correct scales" (al-Kustas al-Mustakim) / Translated from Arabic, research. Moscow: IV RAS, 2008, 134 p. (in Russian)

The Middle East in World Politics and Culture (selected articles, lectures, reports 2009-2011). Moscow: IV RAS, 2011. 375 p.

Islands of the Socotra Archipelago: Expeditions 1974-2010. Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskoi kul'tury, 2012. 511c.

The Arab world, Islam and Russia: Past and Present. Selected chapters, articles, lectures, reports, Moscow: IV RAS, 2013, 528 p.

Al-Baghdadi, ' Abd al-Latif. Description of Egypt at the beginning of the XIII century. A book of notification and review of cases seen and events witnessed in the land of Egypt / Foreword by V. V. Naumkin; translated from Arabic, comment. and the decree of V. V. Naumkin and A. G. Nedvetsky. 2nd ed., ispr. i dop. M.: IV RAS, 2013. 312 p.: facsimile.

Naumkin V., Kogan L., Al-Daarhi A., Cherkashin D. Bulakh M., Vizirova E. Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Publication Date: November 2014. (Copyright Year: 2015). 749 p.

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