On November 16, 2008, the famous sinologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Lev Petrovich Delyusin turned 85 years old.

Lev Petrovich started his career early-while still in school (since 1940 he worked as a librarian of the A. I. Herzen Children's Library), from which he graduated in 1941 with honors. The romance of travel led to his admission to the Moscow Geological Exploration Institute. However, since December 1941, he worked as an accountant on a collective farm in the Chelyabinsk region, where the family was evacuated. In June 1942, L. P. Delyusin volunteered for the front (he was a deputy political officer); he was wounded in the Battle of Stalingrad, but after recovering and working as an economist in the People's Commissariat of Ammunition, he again went to the front, where he served as a sergeant in the Baltic States until June 1945.

In September of the year of Victory, Lev Petrovich Delyusin became a student at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies and graduated with honors in September 1950; as a student practice and in order to help build a new China, he worked for the CER as a translator for about one and a half years. After graduating from the Moscow Institute of International Relations, Lev Petrovich chose the position of correspondent and columnist on China for the newspaper Pravda (first he worked in China, and since 1954 - in the same position in Moscow). In 1958-1959. Lev Petrovich is the editor-consultant of the magazine "Problems of Peace and Socialism" in Prague.

In September 1959, L. P. Delyusin entered the graduate school of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, but in the summer of 1960 he was invited as a reference consultant to the Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In 1961, Lev Petrovich was awarded the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences, the subject of his dissertation: "Class struggle in the villages of Central and Southern China during the period of agrarian transformation (1950 - 1952)". Since April 1965, L. P. Delyusin has been transferred from the Central Committee to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System as Deputy Director for Research and it was during this period that he generated the idea of creating the scientific division that is now known in the world as the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1966, Delyusin has been Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of the International Labor Movement. From 1967 to 1990 Lev Petrovich was Head of the China Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies. In 1970, he was appointed director of the newly created Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences on the basis of the Scientific Library for Social Sciences (while remaining head of the China Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies on a voluntary basis). In two years (1970 - 1972) Lev Petrovich practically created the staff of the Institute, the results of its work and the contribution of L. P. Delyusin will be covered in detail in the publications of INION, which are being prepared for the 30th anniversary of this institution. In 1971, L. P. Delyusin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences (on the topic "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 study of this topic in Soviet Sinology, but for a long time it remained the only source on this issue. L. P. Delyusin's work as head of the China Department helped to preserve the Sinology department at the Institute of Oriental Studies, and the effectiveness of this hotbed of Sinology in Russia is confirmed, among other things, by the annual scientific conference "Society and the State in China"organized by L. P. Delyusin. In 2009, its 39th session was already held, and the materials of the NCOGC enjoy authority in the world of Oriental studies. The collections of abstracts and reports of the conference, as well as the speeches and sometimes heated discussions that often unfold at the meetings, traditionally raise both topical issues related to the current situation in China, and a wide range of topics related to the comprehensive study of history (ancient, medieval, modern and modern times), culture, philosophy, ideologies of our great neighbor, topics of interest not only for professional orientalists.

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L. P. Delyusin is a member of the Editorial Board of China Quarterly and Contemporary China (Beijing-Hong Kong). Scientific and practical business trips, participation in international conferences provided Lev Petrovich with the opportunity to realize his inherent desire to see the world from his youth. And in many countries, as well as at home, business contacts developed into comradely, friendly relations with colleagues that lasted for decades. L. P. Delyusin had and still has even more friendly relations with a considerable number of Russian literary and artistic figures. In particular, he is a member of the Artistic Council of the Taganka Theater. His Russian and foreign colleagues spoke in more detail about Lev Petrovich's personal and professional qualities in a special issue of materials " Society and the State in China "(Publishing House" Eastern Literature", Moscow, 2004), published for the 80th anniversary of the hero of the day.

Orders and medals awarded to L. P. Delyusin: the Order of the Red Star, the Medal "For Military Merit", the Order "Badge of Honor" and the Patriotic War II degree.

From 1990 to the present, Lev Petrovich Delyusin has been a Chief Researcher at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (now a division of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Employees of the Department of China of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the editorial board and the editorial board of the journal "Vostok (Oriens)" congratulate Lev Petrovich and wish him good health and creative success.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF L. P. DELYUSIN*

4 May Movement / / Asia and Africa Today. 1983. N 5. pp. 57-59.

Revolution of 1925-1927 in China: problems and Assessments. Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow: Nauka, 1985.283 p. (co-authored with A. S. Kostyaeva).

Good and evil in the essays of the Chinese writer Liu Binyan / / Inostr. lit. Moscow, 1985. N 10. pp. 191-197.

Features of building socialism in China / / Asia and Africa Today. 1986. N 12. pp. 10-14.

The Earth program of the Heavenly Dynasty and its assessments //Chinese Social Utopias, Moscow, 1987, pp. 172-199.

The struggle around the ideological heritage of Sun Yat-sen / / Socio-political thought in China, Moscow, 1988. pp. 199-242.

Twice executed / / Problems of the Far East. 1989. N 1. pp. 165-172.

Kitay na puti reformov [China on the Path of Reforms]. Nauka v SSSR, Moscow, 1989, No. 1, pp. 121-128; No. 2, pp. 109-117.

O poeme Yan My "Na sude istorii" [On the poem of Yang My "On the Court of History"]. Zarubezhny Vostok, Moscow, 1989. Issue No. 17. pp. 293-294.

In search of a new type of culture / / Asia and Africa today. 1991. N 12. p. 7-12.

Confucius and Socialist Modernization / / Asia and Africa Today. 1991. N 1. pp. 24-28.

Should literature depend on politics//Asia and Africa today. 1992. N 12. pp. 42-44.

Idealy sotsializma i "mirnaya evolyutsiya" obshchestva [The ideals of socialism and the "peaceful evolution" of Society]. 1992. N 2. pp. 52-56.

Banished from the Middle Kingdom / / Journalist, Moscow, 1992, No. 8, pp. 71-77.

China: Plan and Market / / Asia and Africa Today. 1992. N 3. pp. 17-19.

Who slows down reforms: a look at events in the country from across the ocean / / Asia and Africa Today. 1992. N 9. pp. 19-22.

Liang Shumin's Chinese Idea / / Twenty-fourth Scientific Conference "Society and the State in China", Moscow, 1993, part 2, pp. 78-84.

"Chinese capitalism" or "socialism with Chinese characteristics"? / Svobodnaya mysl ' [Free Thought], Moscow, 1993, No. 12, pp. 52-66.

Angliyskiy zhurnal o Deng Xiaoping [English Magazine about Deng Xiaoping]. Svobodnaya mysl, Moscow, 1994, No. 10, pp. 110-117.

Genius or villain? // Asia and Africa today. 1994. N 12. pp. 8-14.

Discussion in China and Russia on socialism / / Russia and the Modern World, Moscow, 1994, No. 2, pp. 39-51.

Deng Xiaoping and the theory of socialist modernization / / Problems of the Far East. 1994. N 5. P. 3-16.

* Comp. by O. A. Tutuishna. For a list of the main scientific works of L. P. Delyusin before 1983, see: Peoples of Asia and Africa. 1983. N 6. pp. 211-212.

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Deng Xiaoping-revolutionary, Maoist, reformer / / Asia and Africa Today. 1994. N 8/9. pp. 78-82.

Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese model of Economic reforms / / Economic History: reforms and reformers, Moscow, 1995, pp. 31-51.

China: corruption and the fight against it // Asia and Africa today. 1996. N 4. p. 25-28; N 5. p. 27-31.

Personal life of Mao Zedong through the eyes of his doctor (Based on the materials of the book:Li Zhisui. The private life of chaiman Mao. L., 1994) / / Asia and Africa today. 1996. N 3. pp. 48-55.

China: ten years of turmoil or two revolutions? // Asia and Africa today. 1997. N 12. pp. 14-19.

China: Modernization and Democracy / / Asia and Africa Today. 1997. N 5. p. 2-6.

China: reforms are underway. Leftists sound the alarm / / Asia and Africa today. 1997. N 9. pp. 32-39. The same / / Vestn. science.inform. M., 1997. N 3. pp. 69-85.

China accelerates market transition // God of the Planet, Moscow, 1997, pp. 400-404.

The Cultural Revolution: Thirty years later // Vestn. science. inform. M., 1997. N 5. p. 64-83.

Vneshnepoliticheskie problemy Rossii na Dalnem Vostoke [Foreign policy problems of Russia in the Far East]. Rossiya i sovremennyi mir, 1998, No. 1, pp. 76-97.

Kitay na poroge XXI veka [China on the threshold of the XXI century]. Vlast, Moscow, 1998, No. 3, pp. 72-75.

Ne vzemy i ne soyuzniki (Rossiya - Kitay) [Not enemies and not Allies (Russia-China)]. 1998. N 7. pp. 50-53.

Some reflections on the beginning of the Soviet-Chinese conflict / / Russia and the Modern World, Moscow, 1998, N 2 (19), pp. 233-256.

China: Half a century - two epochs // Vestn. nauch. inform.. 1999. N 7. p. 3-24.

Relevance of "May 4" slogans and Taiwan's experience // Presidential elections of 2000 in Taiwan and security problems in the Far Eastern region, Moscow, 2000, pp. 30-43.

China: Confessions of an Old Communist / / Asia and Africa Today. 2000. N 7. pp. 19-23.

China: half a century - two epochs / RAS. Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, 2001, 294 p.

China: what is the place of Mao Zedong in the history of the country? Discussions on this topic are getting sharper every year / / Asia and Africa Today. 2001. N 2. pp. 23-26.

China: Modernization and the Teaching of Confucius / / Asia and Africa Today. 2001. N 7. pp. 8-11.

Confucius in the service of Chinese socialism / / Russia and the modern World. 2001. N 1. pp. 182-189.

China: the greatness and tragedy of Deng Xiaoping. Disputes around his legacy continue / / Asia and Africa Today. 2002. N 4. pp. 7-14.

Russia and China on the threshold of the XXI century / / New trends in International relations in Asia, Moscow, 2002. pp. 111-117.

Russo-kitayskie otnosheniya i problema mnogopolarnogo mira [Russian-Chinese relations and the problem of the multipolar world], Moscow, 2002, pp. 113-121.

Russo-kitayskie otnosheniya na rubezhe vekov [Russian-Chinese relations at the turn of the century].

Meeting the Challenge of Globalization / / Asia and Africa Today. 2003. N 4. pp. 2-4.

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