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.- page 215 having overcome the often encountered terminolo ... Read more