On November 17, 2013, Irina Viktorovna Zhmuida, a leading historian and economist, specialist in economic and socio-political problems of Pakistan and its neighboring countries, passed away.

Irina Viktorovna was born in September 1936 in Moscow in the family of a geographer, a specialist in Central Asia. In 1959. She graduated from the Geography Department of Moscow State University and worked for three years in the India Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. My stay at the Institute was interrupted due to my husband's departure to India and then Pakistan. Irina Viktorovna's husband, Nikolai Ivanovich Yermoshkin, became known as a talented international journalist, the author of not only journalistic and journalistic articles, but also a number of scientific works on the problems of South Asia. Irina Viktorovna came to the Institute of Oriental Studies for the second time in 1974 with her dissertation almost ready. In May of the same year, she successfully defended it, becoming a candidate of economic Sciences. On the topic of her dissertation, I. V. Zhmuida prepared the book "Industry of Pakistan", published in the publishing house " Nauka "in 1976.The first book was followed by two others" Foreign Economic Relations of Pakistan "(Moscow, 1981 ) and" Pakistan: internal and external factors in economic development " (Moscow, 1988).

I. V. Zhmuid's works have made a major contribution to the study of the economy of one of the largest Muslim countries in the East. Thanks to her efforts, domestic Pakistani studies now have valuable information about Pakistan's foreign economic relations in the second half of the 20th century.

Irina Viktorovna was one of the first to analyze the Islamic aspect of the Pakistani economy and economic policy. In later works on Pakistan and other mu-

Numerous references are made to its thorough analysis of practical measures for the Islamization of the economy in the Muslim countries.

I. V. Zhmuida's study of the initial phases of Pakistan's industrialization has not lost its relevance. In addition, it was able to demonstrate the transition of Pakistan from the initial focus on assistance from developed countries to the use of preferential financial flows from the petrodollar-rich Islamic states (Saudi Arabia, etc.), as well as the industrial and technical experience and investments of the USSR and China. It is largely thanks to her work that the role of a new source of funding in the development of Pakistan - private transfers from Pakistanis working abroad-has been assessed.

Among the scientific problems that I. V. Zhmuida has been dealing with over the past decades, the social consequences of Pakistan's involvement in the international conflict around neighboring Afghanistan have taken a prominent place. She has painstakingly studied the problem of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, as well as the practically important issue of the production and smuggling of Afghan drugs.

As a geographer-economist, Irina Viktorovna never lost sight of the problem of uneven economic development of Pakistan and paid attention to it in analytical articles and co-authored the monograph "Pakistan: Economic Imbalances and Regional state Policy" (Moscow, 2008).

With the departure of Irina Viktorovna Zhmuida, our science lost a prominent specialist who had remarkable human qualities. Her amazing friendliness and genuine openness attracted everyone with whom she communicated to Irina Viktorovna. She was an extremely courageous and extremely modest person. Irina Viktorovna will always remain in the memory of numerous colleagues and friends, we will remember her kindness, integrity, energy, love for her profession.

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