Title: Rina Pavlovna Usukova – Linguist, Teacher and Person of National Importance
Abstract: The article is devoted to Rina Pavlovna Usikova – Doctor of Philology, Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University – and to her work as the Head of Slavonic languages and cultures Department, as well as her Slavonic and linguodidactic studies as a specialist on Bulgarian and Macedonian languages. The facts of Rina Usikova’s personal and scientific biography are cited, special education of the Department’s teachers is described. The question is about forming a body of new Department for teaching Slavonic languages students of the humanities. The body of the Department primary consisted of young people. Rina Usikova cared of scientific level of every member of the Department. All of the teachers finished post-graduate study and defended their PhD and doctoral dissertations. Rina Usikova was constantly engaged in scientific researches, teaching of Bulgarian and the series of disciplines on Macedonian complex. She participated in compiling of Bulgarian and Macedonian languages’ text books, Macedonian-Russian dictionaries. She wrote Macedonian grammar and text book of Russian for Macedonians. She had wide scientific interests as well in classic linguistics areas as in applied linguistics. She defended her doctoral dissertation, then she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University and became a Honorary member of Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts. The author of the article writes also about her experience of communication with Rina P. Usikova and about work under her leadership.