On December 15, 2010, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the international conference "Problems of the History and Culture of the Ancient East", organized by the Department of History and Culture of the Ancient East of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference was dedicated to the memory of G. M. Bongard-Levin. Scientists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Kharkiv and Minsk took part in its work. The plenary session was opened by Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors. Director of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member. V. M. Alpatov, Deputy Head of the Russian Academy of Sciences. V. Ya.Belokrenitsky, Head of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Department of History and Culture of the Ancient East of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. P. Androsov, Head of the Center for Indian Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences T. L. Shaumyan, Corresponding member. RAS M. A. Dandamaev. V. M. Alpatov highly appreciated G. M. Bongard-Levin's contribution to Russian science. Welcoming the participants of the conference, he stressed that the topics of the reports cover a wide range of modern Oriental studies disciplines, which perfectly reflects the diversity of interests of Grigory Maksimovich Bongard-Levin. V. Ya. Belokrenitsky drew attention to the enormous efficiency of G. M. Bongard-Levin, permanent Chairman of the Dissertation Council of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1987, and permanent editor-in-chief of Vestnik Drevnoi Istorii since 1989. T. L. Shaumyan shared her memories of meeting G. M. Bongard-Levin (a friendly and witty graduate student of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University) in 1954. Tatyana Lvovna admitted that it ... Читать далее