Galina Yakovlevna Ilyina: On the occasion of her 90th Birthday

Abstract

Galina Yakovlevna Ilyina is an outstanding Russian literary critic specializing in Yugoslav literatures. A researcher of the history and typology of the literatures of the South Slavs, she devoted her whole life to their study and popularization. Thanks to her efforts, the development of the literary process of the Bulgarian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian and Montenegrin literature has acquired a complex and systematic character in our country. Galina Yakovlevna can rightfully be considered the founder of the academic school of literary Yugoslav studies in Russia, the academic personnel trained by her are currently successfully continuing to develop the themes and problems of the literatures of the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslavian space. Galina Yakovlevna became the first Yugoslav literary critic in the Russian Federation who was awarded the academic title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the qualification Literature of the Peoples of Foreign Countries.