Lyudmila Pavlovna Yakimova

Research Interests

The fate of Russian realism of the late XIX – early XX centuries: D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, A. P. Chekhov, L. M. Leonov, Vs. Vyach. Ivanov; Russian literature of Siberia of the twentieth century: a foreign theme of Russian literature, the thesaurus of the motifs of the works of A. P. Chekhov and Vs. Vyach. Ivanova; semiotics and poetics of Russian literature.

Brief scientific biography

L. P. Yakimova was born on October 29, 1929 in Gorky (today – Nizhny Novgorod). She graduated from the Gorky State Pedagogical Institute. A.M. Gorky in 1951, and then graduated from the graduate school at this institute in 1954.

For ten years – from 1955 to 1965. worked at the Gorno-Altai Pedagogical Institute, first as a senior lecturer at the Department of Russian Language and Literature, and since September 1962, as the head of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of this Institute. In 1962 she defended her thesis on the theme «Novel “Bread” in the work of D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak in the 90s».

Since September 1965, she worked in the Scientific Information Sector of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the SB RAS as a junior research fellow. On April 1, 1966, she was elected by competition to the post of junior research fellow of the Department for Humanitarian Studies at the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and took part in writing chapters on literature and art of the peoples of Siberia for the 5th volume of “History of Siberia” under the editorship of A. P. Okladnikov.

With the creation of the Russian and Soviet Literature Sector in 1967, she first worked in it as a junior research fellow, since 1971 as a senior research fellow, in 1978 she was elected by competition to the post of head of this Sector, which she retained until 1992. During her work in the Sector of Russian and Soviet Literature of Siberia, she took part in the creation of the collective work Essays on Russian Literature of Siberia in two volumes (1982), served as executive secretary of a two-volume book, and was the author of chapters on literature of the Soviet period, as the editor-in-chief of the second volume.

In 2004 she defended her doctoral dissertation on the theme “The structure of motives in Leonid Leonov’s novel “The Pyramid”, and was selected by competition for the position of chief scientific researcher.

He is the author of about 300 scientific publications, the author of monographs: “Multinational Siberia in Russian Soviet Literature (1982), “Siberian Essay. 20s – 70s (1983)” – together with B. M. Yudalevich; “Literature and writers of Siberia” (1988); «Literary criticism of the journal “Siberian Lights”» - 1920 –1980 (1994) – together with N. N. Sobolevskaya, E. A. Balburov and B. M. Yudalevich; “The structure of motives in the novel by Leonid Leonov “Pyramid” (2003); “The stories of Leonid Leonov of the 1920s on revolution and civil war as a genre-thematic and semantic-poetic cycle” (2007); “Introductory episode as a structural element of the Leonid Leonov’s art system” (2011).

The creative path is reflected in the publications: Lyudmila Pavlovna Yakimova. On her 60th birthday. Bibliographic index (Novosibirsk, 1989); Lyudmila Pavlovna Yakimova. List of scientific papers (Novosibirsk, 2005).

In 1970 she was awarded a jubilee medal to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin, in 1976 with the “Drummer of the 9th Five-Year Plan” badge, the Commemorative Medal “For Contribution to the Development of the Novosibirsk Region”, and the Badge of Honor “For labor on good of the city ”in honor of the 115th anniversary of the city of Novosibirsk.

Researcher ID: L–4455–2018

Selected publications

Yakimova L.P. Multinational Siberia in Russian Soviet literature. Novosibirsk, Science, Siberian Branch, 1983.

Essays on literary criticism of Siberia, in 2 volumes, ed. by L. P. Yakimova. Novosibirsk, Science, 1987.

Yakimova L. P. Motive structure of the novel “Pyramid” by Leonid Leonov. Novosibirsk, SB RAS, 2003.

Yakimova L. P. Tales of Leonid Leonov of the 1920s on the revolution and civil war as a genre-thematic and semantic-poetic cycle. Novosibirsk, SB RAS, 2007.

Yakimova L. P. “During the life, made into the classics”, Vsevolod Ivanov in the historical and literary context of the 20s – 30s of the XX century. Novosibirsk, Publishing House of the SB RAS, 2019.