Международная научная конференция ЮВА в СПбГУ-65

Международная научная конференция, посвященная 65-й годовщине начала изучения языков ЮВА в нашей стране 294 Соколов А. А. A. A. Sokolov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, ansokolov@mail.ru ) HOW THE VIETNAMESE STUDIES BEGAN IN SOVIET UNION: LENINGRAD, 1930s Abstract: The article attempts to show how Russian Vietnamese studies began in Soviet Union. The first cadres of Soviet scholars in Vietnamese studies began to be prepared in 1931 at the Leningrad Oriental Institute. Famous Soviet orientalists Yu. K. Shchutsky and A. A. Dragunov, who lived and worked in Leningrad at that time, prepared a number of linguistic research papers and a textbook on the Annamite (Vietnamese) language. Systematic study of Vietnam and the Vietnamese language began at the Eastern faculty of Leningrad State University in 1955. Keywords: Oriental studies, Indochina, Comintern, Leningrad Oriental Institute, Vietnamese language.