PAGES FROM THE ASHGABATPERIOD OF LIFE OF ORIENTALIST A.A. SEMENOV - NATIVE OF SHATSKS VILLAGE POLNOE KОNОBЕЕVО

On the basis of the analysis still the non-published memoirs of eyewitnesses of events and the written certificates containing in the published literature, some pressing questions connected with life and activity of visible scientist-orientalist Alexander Alexandrovich Semenov (1873-1958), the native of village Polnoe Konobeevo of Shatsky district of the Tambov province (present Shatsky area of the Ryazan region) who after the termination of Lazarevsky institute of east languages (Moscow) has been defined in 1901 for work to Ashgabat - an administrative centre of the most southern, Zakaspijsky area of the Russian empire for the first time are considered. It is proved that from the end of spring of 1901 to the beginning of the summer 1906, that is within full five years of A.A. Semenov, working as managing statistical department of office of the chief of Zakaspijsky area, simultaneously became as the researcher-orientalist with encouraging the future of the scientist. He became one of founder members of the Zakaspijsky circle of fans of archeology and East history. He has published the scientific article about an archaeological monument of Anau, has organized in Ashgabat courses of east languages with teaching Turkmen and other languages. Other results of its scientific and practical works executed in Ashgabat which have left a treasured trace in the history of Turkmenistan at the very beginning of the 20th century are revealed and analyzed. Some pages from life and activity of Turkmen writer Hydyr Derjaev (1905-1988), - the former student of A.A. Semenov on the Central Asian State University are considered.

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