On May 22, Lev Petrovich Delyusin, a major sinologist and an outstanding organizer of Russian Sinology, died.

He died after a long and serious illness.

Lev Petrovich lived a long, interesting and fruitful life: participation in the Great Patriotic War, studying at the IIVS, practicing in Harbin, working as a correspondent for Pravda (first in Beijing, then in Moscow), then in Prague for the magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism. Since 1959, he has been a post-graduate student at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, and since the summer of 1960-a consultant in the Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU for Relations with the Communist and Workers ' Parties of Socialist countries.

In April 1965, L. P. Delyusin became Deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences, put forward the idea of creating a special institute that would deal with issues related to the ever-deteriorating relations between the CPSU and the CPC; later this proposal was implemented when the Institute of the Far East of the USSR Academy of Sciences was created.

Working at the Institute of the World Labor Movement as a deputy director (since 1966), Lev Petrovich began to conduct seminars on China. In 1970, he became director of the INION of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had just been founded (with his direct participation) on the basis of the Academic Fundamental Library. The creation of this institute has fundamentally changed the information climate in the Academy of Sciences and throughout the country. Lev Petrovich headed it until 1972.

In 1961, he defended his PhD thesis on " Class struggle in the villages of Central and Southern China during the period of agrarian transformation (1950-1952) "based on materials collected while working as a correspondent for Pravda in China. In 1970, he was awarded the

He received a Doctor of Historical Sciences degree for his dissertation on "The Agrarian and peasant question and the CCP's policy: 1921-1928"; the monograph" The Agrarian and Peasant Question in the CCP's Policy (1921-1928) " published in 1972 was not only the first extensive study of this topic in Soviet Sinology, but for a long time it remained the only work on this issue.

From 1967 to 1990, L. P. Dslyusin headed the China Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was preserved and developed largely thanks to his efforts. The years of his leadership formed an epoch in the history of the Institute and in the history of domestic Sinology. Despite all sorts of difficulties, this was the heyday of Russian Sinology, and the scientific conference "Society and the State in China" initiated by him in 1970 is still the main sinological forum in our country. Being a man of a broad soul and diverse interests, Lev Petrovich was able to create the most friendly and creative atmosphere in the department, expand the research topics as much as possible, and attract extraordinary-minded scientists to work and cooperate.

After 1990, he worked at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, served on the editorial boards of The China Quarterly and Contemporary China magazines (Beijing, Hong Kong), and was a member of the Artistic Council of the Taganka Theater.

Lev Petrovich, we will all miss you very much.

Eternal memory!

FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, AND SINOLOGISTS OF RUSSIA

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