On April 18, 2015, Vladimir Alexandrovich Tyurin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial board of the journal "Vostok (Oriens)", Russia's largest expert on the history and culture of Southeast Asia, left.

Everyone knew Vladimir Alexandrovich. His cheerfulness and fantastic erudition, openness and benevolence attracted people of all ages and interests to him. Vladimir Aleksandrovich could give advice in any situation. Vladimir Alexandrovich's vast life experience allowed him to distinguish real problems from fuss and contrived difficulties, and his innate tact helped him find a common language with a variety of people.

Vladimir Alexandrovich was born on May 20, 1933 in the family of a military doctor Alexander Iosifovich (1908-1959) and a teacher Natalia Pavlovna (1910-1999). The Tyurins. During the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Alexandrovich fell in love with books. In the winter of 1941-1942 he read the textbook "History of the Ancient East" by Vasily Vasilyevich Struve from the school library, and since then history has become his life's work. After graduating from high school with a gold medal in 1950, Vladimir Alexandrovich entered the History Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he graduated in 1955 with a degree in the History of China and the Far East. However, while a Sinologist, a graduate of Moscow State University was unclaimed.

In 1955-1956. Vladimir Aleksandrovich worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Dagestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. At the end of 1956, he entered the postgraduate course of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, majoring in Malaya.

After completing postgraduate studies, Vladimir Alexandrovich worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies (Institute of Asian Peoples) of the USSR Academy of Sciences as a junior researcher in 1960-1968, and as a senior researcher in 1968-1970. In 1961. Vladimir Aleksandrovich defended his PhD thesis on "The conquest of Malaya by England and the struggle of the Malay people for their independence". The following year, the monograph "The Conquest of Malaya by England" was published - the first and so far only study of English colonialism in Malaya in Russian historiography.

In 1966. Vladimir Aleksandrovich, together with his friends Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko (Kir Bulychev, 1934-2003) and Leonid Aleksandrovich Sedov (born 1934), a numerologist, wrote the book "With a Cross and a Musket", which immediately became a bestseller. The fascinating, bloody, harsh and romantic history of European colonialists - conquerors, preachers, adventurers - in Southeast Asia was presented to the Russian-speaking reader in an artistic form and historically authentic.

Two years later, Vladimir Alexandrovich, together with the Burmanist M. G. Kozlova (1929-2014) and L. A. Sedov, published an article "Types of early-class Societies in Southeast Asia", published in the innovative collection "Problems of the History of Pre-Capitalist Societies" edited by L. V. Danilova (Moscow, 1968). In it, the authors identified three types of early-class societies and states in the region: coastal city-states, valley "irrigation" states, and "mixed" societies that combined the characteristics of the first two types.

In 1970, V. A. Tyurin published his monograph "The Aceh War", which factographically accurately recreated the history of one of the most tragic social conflicts in Sumatra - the religious, social, and ethnic war of the Aceh people against the Dutch colonial administration. A year later, the author defended it as a doctoral dissertation (the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission to award the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences was followed on May 12, 1972).

In 1970-1977. Vladimir Alexandrovich worked in the Department of Culture of the UNESCO Secretariat in Paris. After completing his work at UNESCO, he returned to the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and worked as a senior researcher from January 30, 1978 to January 12, 1984.

During these years, V. A. Tyurin wrote the monograph " The History of Malaysia (a brief sketch) "(Moscow, 1980), a number of articles and reviews. This small book was the first scientific presentation of the centuries-old history of Malaysia in the national science. Vladimir Aleksandrovich continued to study the typology of socio-political structures of medieval societies in Southeast Asia. In two theoretical articles published in 1982, he identified feudal-bureaucratic (Vietnamese), military-feudal (maritime or Malay), and state-patriarchal (Indochina-Javanese) types of socio-political structure in the societies of the region1.

In 1984. Vladimir Alexandrovich prepared for publication a monograph "History of Indonesia" with a volume of 40 pages, but it was published only in 2004. For family reasons, Vladimir Alexandrovich left for the UK in 1983. As a result, he was dismissed from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the finished edition of the History of Indonesia was scattered. Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko has preserved two copies, which are a bibliographic rarity and exist "as a manuscript".

In 1984-1991. Vladimir Alexandrovich worked abroad, in Great Britain and France. This period of his life was far from scientific. To support his family, Vladimir Alexandrovich went into the restaurant business in Paris and learned from his own experience the fate of a businessman in the "stronghold of capitalism" - the "free French society". As he later told me repeatedly, he had to get up at five o'clock in the morning to prepare breakfast, and he had to keep in mind who from the local mafia must be paid today, and who can be paid tomorrow. This life outside the scientific and official spheres gave Vladimir Alexandrovich

¹ Tyurin V. A. Sotsial'no-politicheskaya struktura srednevekovykh obshchestv Yugo-Vostochnoy Azii [Socio-political structure of medieval societies in Southeast Asia]. 1982. N 1. pp. 25-35; Tyurin V. A. Types of socio-political structure of medieval societies in Southeast Asia // Tipy obshchestvennykh otnosheniy na Vostoke v sredniye veka [Types of public relations in the East in the Middle Ages].

genuine wisdom, often inaccessible to people who are limited to any one profession.

In 1991, V. A. Tyurin returned to his homeland and began working as the head of the political science department of the magazine " Vostok. Afro-Asian Societies: History and Modernity". In 1992-2002, he was executive secretary, and in 1994-2013-head of the editorial history Department, and the high scientific level of the journal is largely due to him.

In 1998, Vladimir Aleksandrovich returned to the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was first a leading researcher, and then, since 2001, a chief researcher. In 2007, he became a full-time employee of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vladimir Alexandrovich was an active teacher. In 1995, he received the academic title of professor. His lectures have always fascinated and remained in the memory of several generations of students and postgraduates due to the plastic, artistic form of presenting colossal factual and theoretical material. Vladimir Alexandrovich worked at the Eastern University (now the Institute of Oriental Countries), the Academy of Retraining of Art, Culture and Tourism Workers, the Moscow Humanitarian University, the Moscow Humanitarian Institute, and the Academy of National Economy.

In 2004, two monographs by Vladimir Alexandrovich were published. One-the fundamental "History of Indonesia" - is a comprehensive study of the contradictory and eventful and conflicting historical process in different parts of the Malay (Indonesian) archipelago-on those islands that are part of the Republic of Indonesia. Another is the textbook "History of Southeast Asia", written in collaboration with D. V. Mosyakov. This textbook is still used by students of the Institute of Oriental Countries and the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University.

In the series "Countries of the East. Vladimir Alexandrovich wrote two monographs: "History of Indonesia: XX Century "(co-authored with A. Yu. Drugov; Moscow, 2005) and "History of Malaysia: XX Century" (co-authored with V. A. Tsyganov; Moscow, 2010). Both books are distinguished by their thoroughness and comprehensive approach. The political and socio-economic history of the two leading ASEAN States in the 20th century has received detailed coverage on their pages.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich was keenly interested in other historical phenomena. He presented his vision of the Russian history of the XVIII century and the history of the Black Sea region and the Volga-Don interfluve from the Scythians to the Khazars in the "Book for Reading on Russian History (in two parts)" (Moscow: East. un-t, 2008). Written as easily and recklessly as "With the Cross and the Musket" once was, this book retains the spirit of Vladimir Alexandrovich's lectures, which are as fascinating as history itself.

May the kingdom of heaven be with you, Vladimir Alexandrovich! Eternal memory!

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