Eugene Chelyshev

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Eugene Chelyshev
Евгений Челышев
Born(1921-10-27)27 October 1921
Moscow, Russian SFSR
Died13 July 2020(2020-07-13) (aged 98)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
OccupationAcademician

Eugene Petrovich Chelyshev or E. P. Chelyshev (Russian: Евгений Петрович Челышев, 27 October 1921 – 13 July 2020

Orders of the Red Star (1944, 1949), Order of the Patriotic War II degree (1985), Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV Degree (1997), III degree (2007), II degree (2020), Order of Honour (2012). Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.[4]

Biography

Chelyshev was born on 27 October 1921, to a Moscow merchant family. In 1939, after graduating from high school, he started his studies at the

Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering. A freshman, he was drafted into the army and sent to flight school in the military town Sescha in Orel Military District.[1]

In 1949, he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages of the Red Army (Eastern Division) and enrolled in post-graduate courses. In 1952, he defended his thesis in linguistics and obtained the degree of Candidate of Sciences. Until the closing of the institute in 1956, he remained the head of the department of Indian languages.[1]

After his discharge with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Chelyshev worked for over 30 years at the

Doctor of Sciences. In 1981 Chelyshev was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1987, a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A year later he was elected Academician-Secretary of the Department of Literature and Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences and was a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1]

Academic career

His main subjects of research were: Literary and Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Indian philology.[1]

In 2002, he was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian award,

Sahitya Akademi Fellowship by the Government of India.[8]

Chelyshev has been a member of the

Russian Federation.[1]

He was a member of the Bureau of Indian Philosophical Society, and a member of The Asiatic Society.[1]

Vivekananda research and cultivation

Chelyshev was a researcher and admirer of Swami Vivekananda.[9] For more than last thirty years he has been researching on and working to spread the culture and message of Vivekananda. He was one of the vice-presidents of the Committee for Comprehensive Study of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Movement.[10]

He told about Vivekananda—[11]

I think that Vivekananda's greatest service is the development in his teaching of the lofty ideals of humanism which incorporate the finest features of Indian culture.... In my studies of contemporary Indian literature, I have more than once had the opportunity to see what great influence the humanistic ideals of Vivekananda have exercised on the works of many writers.... [In] Vivekananda's humanism, we recognize that it possesses many features of active humanism manifested above all in a fervent desire to elevate man, to instill in him a sense of his own dignity, sense of responsibility for his own destiny and the destiny of all people, to make him strive for the ideals of good, truth and justice, to foster in man abhorrence for any suffering.... Together with the Indian people, Soviet people who already know some of the works of Vivekananda published in the USSR, highly revere the memory of the great Indian patriot, humanist and democrat, impassioned fighter for a better future for his people and all mankind.

Bibliography

  • Modern Hindi poetry. (Современная поэзия хинди.) Moscow, 1965;
  • Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
    . (Сурьякант Трипатхи Нирала.) Moscow, 1978;
  • Contemporary Indian literature. (Современная индийская литература.) Moscow, 1981;
  • Sumitranandan Pant: The Singer of the Himalayas. (Сумитранандан Пант. Певец Гималаев.) Moscow, 1985;
  • Indian literature yesterday and today. (Индийская литература вчера и сегодня.) Moscow, 1988;
  • Selected Works. In three volumes. (Избранные труды. В 3 томах.) Moscow, 2002;
  • Russian Emigration: 1920-30-ies. History and modernity. (Российская эмиграция: 1920-30-е годы. История и современность.) Moscow, 2002.
  • Uzkoye Estate and Vladimir Solovyov. M., 2012. (Усадьба Узкое и Владимир Соловьёв; co-authored with M. Yu. Korobko).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Челышев Евгений Петрович" [Chelyshev Evgeniy Petrovich] (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ^ "भारतीय साहित्य में योगदान के लिए ई.पी. चेलीशेव के 90वें वर्षगांठ पर उनकी सराहना". Pravasi Duniya. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  3. ISBN 81-85843-51-1
    .
  4. ^ "Челышев Евгений Петрович. Академик Российской академии наук". Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Report of 9th General Conference, UNESCO" (PDF). UNESCO. 11 February 1957.
  6. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Padma Vibhushan for Rangarajan, Soli Sorabjee". The Hindu. 26 January 2002. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2002.
  8. ^ "Academician Y.P. Chelyshev 90th birth anniversary celebrations". Russian Embassy, India.
  9. ^ Santwana Dasgupta (1991). Vivekananda, the Prophet of Human Emancipation: A Study on the Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda. Bijaya Dasgupta. p. 352.
  10. ISBN 9788185843513
    .
  11. ^ "Tributes to Swami Vivekananda". Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
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