Yulia Aleksandrovna Li (Tseluyeva) is a native of St. Petersburg. She graduated from the Eastern Faculty of Leningrad State University with a degree in Turkic Philology. From 1957 to 1964, she worked at the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. She was engaged in the description of manuscripts in the Department of manuscripts of the Institute, and also under the guidance of Academician A. N. Kononov began to collect material for the " Bibliographic Dictionary of Domestic Turkologists (pre-October period)". Two editions of this most interesting handbook of Oriental studies were published in 1974 and 1989, and a large team of Turkologists was involved in the work on it. A member of this collective is Yu. A. Li.

In 1964, Yu. A. Lee moved to Moscow, as her husband, a classmate Valentin Nikolaevich Lee, a specialist in Korean literature and language, entered the graduate school of the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Yulia Alexandrovna began working in the Turkey and IB sector of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

It did not immediately find its place in Turkological research. She prepared reference materials on Turkish statesmen, Oriental studies centers for the study of Turkey, was a scientific secretary of the sector, and curator of the Memorial Cabinet-Library named after him. Academician V. A. Gordlevsky. She worked on organizing the memorial library's collection, compiling catalogues, organizing anniversary exhibitions, and compiled and published a bibliography of V. A. Gordlevsky's works. She put a lot of effort during the triple relocation of the library to a new location, which was associated with the relocation of the institute to a new building and the placement of the significant book collection that was transferred to the institute by the widow of academician Varvara Alexandrovna on the terms of preservation as an independent memorial office and center for Turkological research.

Indeed, V. A. Gordlevsky's Office has become a center that unites Turkologists. Turkological seminars were regularly held there, and specialists from different cities and republics of the country spoke. It became a tradition that it was visited by foreign scientists. It was a truly rallying center of Turkology for our colleagues. The keeper of this precious for

all the Turkologists of the "Turkish hearth" were Yulia Alexandrovna Li. Her affability and benevolence gave Gordlevsky's Office a special charm and attractiveness. All turkologists knew that they would be welcomed here, introduced to the right specialists, helped with literature, and finally given tea. Foreign guests, especially from Turkey, told each other that in Moscow they should definitely visit Gordlevsky's Office at the Institute of Oriental Studies and preferably take a box of Turkish Turkish delight with them.

Both an active scientific life and a purely friendly atmosphere, characteristic of the Memorial Cabinet-Library named after him. Academician V. A. Gordlevsky, were largely the merit of Yu. A. Li, who quietly, imperceptibly, somehow in a feminine way comfortably performed her work as a curator of the Cabinet.

At the same time, Yu.A. Li also quietly, slowly, and imperceptibly grew into a specialist turkologist. Her research interests have focused on the problem of education in Turkey. In 1975. She defended her PhD thesis on the topic " Training of intermediate and highly qualified personnel for the national economy of Turkey (1960-1970)". Continuing this line of research, she studied various aspects of the formation and development of a unified state education system at all levels and branches of education in Turkey, legislation in this area, and educational reforms carried out in the country throughout its republican period. Much attention was paid to the emergence of the private sector in the Turkish education system, especially in the sectors related to the development of high technologies in the field of production, business and information technology. The problems of education in Turkey turned out to be particularly relevant not only for understanding the socio-economic processes taking place in the country, but also due to the fact that Turkey has become a successful supplier of labor to a number of European countries, and now to the post-Soviet space. Turkish workers the staff turned out to be better professionally and technically prepared than many guest workers from other Asian countries. The result of Yu. A. Li's research on the problems of education and training of national cadres in Turkey was her book "Reforms in the education system of the Republic of Turkey 1970-2002" (Moscow, 2006). In recent years, she has also published a number of articles on the relations between Turkey and the new Turkic countries of the post-Soviet space in the field of culture and education, as well as the peculiarities of the functioning of the religious education system in Turkey. She became an excellent expert in the field of education in the Republic of Turkey. Her presentations at scientific conferences held by the Department of Near and Middle East Countries of the Institute of International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences were informative, and her colleagues met with great attention and interest.

And another area of interest of Yu. A. Li was noticeable at the Institute. She was very fond of fiction and read a lot. During the Soviet period and the first post-Soviet period, when we all lived in literature and journalism, she was engaged in the subscription and storage of literary and artistic magazines through the local committee of the Institute. Many employees turned to her for magazines, and not only as a curator, but also as a consultant, asking what was new, interesting, and absolutely necessary to read. Yulia Alexandrovna was, to a certain extent, a literary barometer for many at the Institute.

We deeply mourn the passing of a good person, a good specialist, and a guardian of Turkological unity, Yulia Alexandrovna Li.

We express our sincere condolences to Yulia Alexandrovna's daughter and husband.

TURKOLOGISTS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

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