Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich: biography and photos

Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich is an outstanding Russian Scientist, teacher, political and public figure, diplomat. The man is very educated and erudite. He has many awards, he is the author of a large number of scientific works.

About roots and childhood

On the eighteenth of September 1938, Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich was born. The nationality of his parents is the Tatars. But even in the nineteenth century the ancestors of Yagy (in particular, the grandfather who served in the Russian army) settled in the city on the Neva, so he considers himself a hereditary Petersburger.

Children's years of the future scientific figure fell on military hard times. The Yagya family was evacuated to Altai, where a small Vatanyar went to the first class. After the war, Yagy returned to Leningrad, and studies continued in school number 73, which is in the Petrogradsky district.

Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich, whose biography is closely connected with science, often said in interviews that his successes are primarily due to parents who managed to educate all children. And their family had five - three sons and two daughters.

Education

Immediately after school, young Vatanyar was not able to enroll in a higher educational institution, and he worked as a loader for two years. The first place of work for the future of science was the cafe at the Lenkom Theater. And in 1958, the dream of a capable youth finally came true: he entered the Leningrad State University in the Oriental Department (the Department of African Studies), where he studied the Amharic language of Ethiopia, as well as the history, culture and political system of this and other African countries.

After graduating from Leningrad State University with a red diploma, Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich was enrolled in postgraduate study. Thesis was successfully defended in 1967, having received the degree of candidate of historical sciences. And in 1975 he became a doctor. In addition, Yagya passed an internship at Moscow State University and was a student of the University of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where he fell for the exchange.

Pedagogical work

After finishing postgraduate studies, Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich stayed at LSU as a junior research assistant. The Department of Economics of Modern Capitalism was the start for his many years of pedagogical activity. True, a year later Vatanyar Saidovich left the walls of his alma mater and moved to the Pedagogical Institute named after Herzen, where he taught at a geofaculty. Here he worked for eleven years, having received for this time the title of professor.

The next place of Yagy's work was the Institute of Soviet Trade, where he taught the economic geography of the USSR and headed the corresponding department. And in 1987, his former student again cordially accepted LSU, where he, now in the rank of professor, was invited to lead the chair of African studies. But Vatanyar Saidovich was more and more interested in the problems of relations between the countries, and when the faculty of international relations appeared at the university in 1994, he moved there and to this day heads the department of world politics. In general, the pedagogical experience of the figure is 49 years. Of these, 30 gave Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich St. Petersburg State University. He also managed to work abroad. Lectures of Russian students of Israeli, Finnish and German universities were heard.

Scientific activity

Vatanyar Yagya is a big star in the world of Russian science. His pen belongs to more than 350 works devoted to the problems of political and economic geography, international relations, linguistics, literary studies, studies of Ethiopia, etc.

Vatanyar Saidovich was engaged in the creation of theoretical foundations of the political geography of third world countries; Thoroughly studied the language of Ethiopia and even becomes the pioneer of certain of its phenomena; "Laid out" the foreign policy of many states, including Russia, the Baltic countries, Asia and Africa; Established relations between politics, history and geography at the international level, etc. All his achievements are difficult to enumerate.

In 1998 Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich received the title of Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, and in 2006 the research team headed by him was recognized as the best national school in the sphere of world political processes and international relations. There are other high ranks and awards in the "piggy bank" of this outstanding person. In particular, he is an honorary professor at the St. Petersburg State University.

International recognition

VS Yagya is valued not only at home, but also abroad. His name stands in line with other major scientists in the world who work in this industry. Scientific works of the Russian are published by the Germans, Americans, Finns and, of course, Ethiopians, whom the activist has devoted a lot of time and energy, having studied their country along and across.

The department, headed by Vatanyar Saidovich in St. Petersburg State University, constantly becomes the organizer of various symposia, conferences and round tables of the international level. International recognition of the merits put him in a number of prominent scientists. A creative team was formed at the department, interested in theoretical questions of world politics.

Several employees of the department under the leadership of Vatanyar prepared a monograph titled "Linguistic Policy Problems of World Politics." Associate professors prepare doctoral dissertations, which include sections on the ideas of the head of the department.

Yagya prepared 24 candidates of historical and political science. In their dissertations they developed various innovative ideas. They were published in many scientific journals. In addition, Yagya acted as a consultant on four dissertations, which were successfully protected.

Political activity

It would be strange if a person so interested in politics would not try to prove himself in this area.

From 1990 to 1993 Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich - a deputy of the Leningrad City Council, where in 1990-1991 he even joined the Presidium. He worked closely with the mayor of St. Petersburg, being his chief adviser from 1991 to 1996, and also heading the city government. From 1994 to 2011 - a member of the Legislative Assembly of Peter. To date, he is an adviser to the chairman of this body on international relations. He is a member of the party "United Russia".

In the political circles of St. Petersburg, the name of an elderly scientist is well known, and his contribution to the development of the city is difficult to overestimate. It is Yagya who always entrusts conducting the most difficult negotiations with foreign delegations, and, as a rule, an experienced international specialist copes with his task brilliantly, which, naturally, benefits both his native city and the whole country. Deputy Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich, whose photo often flickers in local media, recognizable personality in St. Petersburg.

Polyglot

In his political activities, Vatanyar Saidovich is greatly helped by his theoretical knowledge, including in the field of linguistics. While still a student, he learned seven languages, most of which he remembers until then and use from time to time. Yagya speaks fluent English, knows Amharic, knows two more African languages, understands written Arabic. During the negotiation processes and speeches at various conferences, this helps the politician and the scientist to put his listeners to him and as accurately as possible bring to them all the necessary information.

Awards of Vatanyar

• Order "For Services to the Fatherland" of the fourth degree - received for contribution to the development of science, education, fruitful activity for many years and training of qualified specialists;
• A medal "For Services to the Fatherland" of the first degree - for fruitful long-term work and services in lawmaking;
• Medal "For Services to the Fatherland" of the second degree - for merits in pedagogical and scientific activities;
• Is an honored scientist of the Russian Federation;
• Was awarded with the certificate of honor of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;
• Is an honorary professor at the St. Petersburg State University.

Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich: the scientist's family

People who are so keen on science are often lonely. But Vatanyar Yagya is an exception. He managed to create a good strong family and, together with his wife, bring up two wonderful children. Vatanyar Saidovich is proud of his heirs and often tells the journalist that his daughter has become a successful lawyer, and the son is a doctor-endocrinologist from God. He also does not tire of reiterating, about the support that the family and the scientist always gives to families in difficult situations. For Yagya, his family is a real rear.

About dreams

What is the dream of a person who has a long and productive life behind his shoulders? Did he still have any unfulfilled desires, or did everything that was conceived come to pass? Judging by the interview, Vatanyar Yagya, he still has aspirations and a small cart. The most important desires: to write a biography of the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie the First, to secure at the legislative level guarantees for the Russian language in St. Petersburg and to become a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And the scientist and deputy Yagya Vatanyar Saidovich, whose biography is inextricably linked with the Northern Palmyra, dreams of his hometown being the capital of Russia again. He himself does not believe in such a perspective, but at the same time believes that nothing is impossible on the Earth and can not be!