On April 17, the leading specialist in general and Oriental linguistics, history of Oriental studies and sociolinguistics, Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial boards of the journals "Vostok (Oriens)", "Voprosy Yazykoznaniya", "Voprosy Filologii", corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philology, Professor Vladimir Alpatov turns 70.

There is hardly an orientalist or philologist in our country who is unfamiliar with his works. The breadth of Vladimir Mikhailovich's research interests seems to exceed the capabilities of one person: the Japanese language, the fate of repressed Orientalists, the history of scientific philology in Russia, problems of national language policy, linguistic research, linguists, and modern problems in Asia and Africa... In all these areas, his works have become classics. Many generations of orientalists and linguists have studied and will continue to study them.

Vladimir Mikhailovich was born in 1945 in the family of historians Mikhail Antonovich Alpatov and Zinaida Vladimirovna Udaltsova.

In 1968, V. M. Alpatov graduated from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. In 1971, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he defended his PhD thesis "Grammatical system of forms of politeness in the modern Japanese literary language", published as a monograph "Categories of Politeness in modern Japanese" two years later. Since 1972, Vladimir Mikhailovich has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS). In 1983, he defended his doctoral thesis "Morpheme and word problems in modern Japanese". In 1994-2012, he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. On May 29, 2008, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since June 19, 2012 Vladimir Mikhailovich heads the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The editorial board and editorial board of the magazine "Vostok (Oriens)" cordially congratulate Vladimir Mikhailovich on his birthday, wish him good health, new scientific discoveries and achievements!

SELECTED WORKS OF V. M. ALPATOV*

Categories of politeness in the modern Japanese language, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1973, 107 p. (Ed. 2-E. M.: URSS, kultury, 2006. 146 p. Ed. 3-E. M.: URSS: Librocom, 2009. 145 p. Ed. 4-E. M.: URSS, 2011. 145 p.)

Structure of grammatical units in the modern Japanese language, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1979, 149 p.

Japan: Language and Society, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1988, 136 p. (2nd ed., supplemented, Moscow: Muravey Publ., 2003, 208 p.)

Izuchenie yaponskogo yazyka v Rossii i SSSR [Studying the Japanese language in Russia and the USSR]. Moscow: Nauka, 1988, 189 p.

Theoretical grammar of the Japanese language. Moscow: Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of Defense, 1988.

The story of a myth. Marr and Marrism, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1991, 240 p. (2nd ed., supplemented. Moscow: URSS, 2004, 284 p.; 3rd ed., Moscow: URSS, 2011, 288 p.)

"The case of Slavists": The 30s, Moscow: Nasledie, 1994, 284 p. (Co-author: F. D. Ashnin.)

Nikolai-Nicholas Poppe, Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura Publ., 1996, 144 p. (in Russian)

150 languages and politics: 1917-1997. Sociolinguistic problems of the USSR and post-Soviet Space, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1997, 192 p. ISBN 5-89282-022 (2nd ed., supplemented (...1917-2000), Moscow: Kraft+, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000, 224 p.)

History of linguistic studies. Training manual. Moscow: Languages of Russian Culture, 1998. 367 p. ISBN 5-7859-0049-1 (2nd ed. Moscow, 1999. 367 p. Ed. 3rd, corrected and supplemented. Moscow, 2001. 367 p. Ed. 4th M.: Languages of Slavic culture, 2005. 367 p.)

Grammar of the Japanese Language: An Introduction. Phonology. Supraphonology. Morphonology, Moscow: Vostochny lit., 2000, 149 p. (Co-authors: I. F. Vardul, S. A. Starostin.)

Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Study and Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. Moscow: Izd-vo Instituta. foreign Languages, 2001, 104 p. (Natural and Cultural Heritage of Moscow).

Repressed Turkology, Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2002, 296 p. (Co-authors: F. D. Ashnin, D. M. Nasilov.)

Voloshinov, Bakhtin i lingvistika [Languages of Slavic Kulgura], Moscow, 432 p.

Japan: Language and Culture, Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskikh kul'tury, 2008, 206 p.

Theoretical Grammar of the Japanese Language: In 2 books, Moscow: Natalis, 2008, 559 and 463 p. (Co-authors: P. M. Arkadiev, V. I. Podleskaya.)

Yazykovedy, vostokovedy, istoriki [Linguists, Orientalists, historians], Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskikh kul'tury, 2012, 374 p.

* For a list of V. M. Alpatov's main works, see: Vostok (Oriens), 2005, No. 3, pp. 195-202; and also on the website of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences: http://www.ivran.ru/component/content/article/3/114.

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