Вспоминая учителя

Abstract

In the article, the author recalls his mentor, an outstanding personality, our contemporary Aziz Pulatovich Kayumov, who played a big role in his life and destiny, as well as other researchers. In the course of joint work in various scientific areas, he, as the author of a study of the history of the book of Uzbekistan in the 20th century, recommended the creation of the necessary textbooks on Central Asia and Uzbekistan. Kayumov said that fate itself orders to study the 2.5 thousand-year history of the book culture of the Central Asian region and Kazakhstan. When in 1979 Aziz Pulatovich was appointed director of the Institute of Manuscripts of the Academy of Sciences, they continued to closely deal with the vast topic of recreating the history of writing, handwritten and first printed (lithographic) books, the art of the book, the history of book publishing, library, bibliographic, book trade of the last 25 centuries. Thus, the scientific monograph “History of the book in Turkestan. Antiquity. Middle Ages», which was published by the publishing house of the National Library of Uzbekistan