On January 18, 1912, Yuri Misakovich Garushyants, a well-known sinologist who worked for about 30 years in the Department of China of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, died.

Yuri Misakovich was one of the most professional and insightful Russian researchers of the history and political culture of twentieth-century China. He was born on June 24, 1930 in Baku in the family of a repressed party propagandist. In 1953, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, where he also studied for postgraduate studies.

His many-sided scientific activity, which began in 1957 at the Institute of Philosophy, later continued at the Institute of Chinese Studies, the Institute of Asian Peoples, the Institute of International Labor Movement, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, and in 1961-1962 and 1978-2006 - at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1962-1966. He taught at the N. K. Krupskaya Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute. Over 50 years of scientific creativity, Yuri Misakovich's talent as a thoughtful researcher and a talented scientific editor has been revealed. Having a wide range of scientific interests and research interests, he began his research activities in graduate school, where he was recommended by the famous revolutionary and scientist G. N. Voitinsky (Zarkhin, 1893-1953), with a topic that occupied an important place in his further work - the national-patriotic "May 4 movement" of 1919 in China. Its disclosure immediately revealed the nature of Yuri Misakovich's research approach: a scrupulous desire to understand the array of sources and literature that are being put into circulation, to find out the nature of political clashes around the historical plot being studied, and, most importantly, to find out the nature of political conflicts around the historical plot being studied.-

having overcome the often encountered terminological chaos, offer your own extraordinary, but scientifically based solution to this or that problem. The first major scientific article by Yu.M. Garushyants, published in 1958, and already in 1960 translated into Chinese and published in the PRC, is devoted to this topic. The main results of this work were the defense of his dissertation on the topic "The May 4, 1919 movement in China" in 1969 and the publication of a large collection of documents and materials prepared by him with the same name.

In his 1966 article "On the Asian Mode of Production", Yu.M. Garushyants brought to a new and most productive stage one of the most exciting discussions in Soviet historical science. He wrote a whole series of publications about the creation of the Communist Party of China, about the activities of the outstanding revolutionary Li Dazhao and the first Chinese Communists, in particular Chen Duxiu, about the formation and beginning of the political career of prominent political figures of the People's Republic of China (Liu Shaoqi). He closely studied the evolution of Chinese socio-utopian ideas, the principles of democracy and human rights in Chinese socio-political thought.

A significant place in the creative biography of Yuri Misakovich was occupied by the study of the labor movement in China. He was a member of the author's collective of the multi-volume work " The International Labor Movement: Questions of History and Theory "(vol. 6. Moscow, 1981).

Yu. M. Garushyants was widely known in the circles of orientalists and international political scientists as a talented scientific editor. In 1962-1969, he was head of the history department of the magazine "Peoples of Asia and Africa", and in 1971-1973, he was deputy editor - in-chief of the magazine"Working Class and Modern World".

Yuri Misakovich published more than 120 scientific papers, regularly spoke and actively participated in the annual scientific conferences "Society and the State in China" held by the Department of China for more than 40 years. An extremely frank and informative, biographically and professionally rich interview, given by him at the end of 2009 to V. TS Golovachev in the framework of the international project "Sinology-Oral History", can be found on the website of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the section "Projects-electronic publications" at: http://www.ivran.ru.

Thanks to his excellent knowledge of the Chinese language, deep insight into primary sources, increased attention to historiography and constant independence of conclusions, Yuri Misakovich Garushyants has gained great respect and authority among sinologists. He was a sincere and truth-loving person, a bright temperamental personality, distinguished not only by scientific courage, but also by personal courage. He was awarded the Order "Badge of Honor", medals "For the Defense of the Caucasus" and "For the Victory over Germany". The good memory of him as a rare professional and extraordinary person will always remain in the hearts of his friends and colleagues in Russia and abroad.

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