Besolova, Elena B.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2023. IIS 50 (89).

Abstract:
In a review of the book “Nikolai Bagaev. Life and Works” – thoughts caused by the publication
of some scientific works, translations of stories into Ossetian – “The Mantle” by N.V. Gogol, “If
you are a Negro...” Solya Green; with the publication of reviews and reports of the scientist’s
works, as well as with memories of the Ossetian scholar Nikolai Konstantinovich Bagaev. The
compiler of the collection is Boris Razhdenovich Khoziev, Eminent Culture Figure of the Republic
of North Ossetia-Alania and the Russian Federation, Eminent Science Figure of the Republic of
South Ossetia, member of the International Organization of Journalists, member of the Union
of Journalists and the Union of Writers of Russia, graduate of the Faculty of Ossetian Philology,
grateful student of N.K. Bagaev. A short excursion undertaken by us discovered that the grammar
of the Ossetian was presented in Ossetian studies by the works of A.J. Sjögren, 1844), Vs.F. Miller
(1904, 1963); “Syntax of the Ossetian language” K.E. Gagkaev (1956), as well as “Grammar of the
Ossetian”, ed. acad. G.S. Akhvlediani (1963) and others. It is known that during the Soviet period
in primary and secondary schools they studied using the textbooks of B.A. Alborov, M.A. Guriev,
B.G. Karsanov, N.I. Arsagov, K. Gutnov, as well as associate professor N.K. Bagaev (part I, 1965,
grades 5–6; part II, 1961, for high school). The most complete description of the modern Ossetian
language was the two-volume edition of “Modern Ossetian” (Ordzhonikidze, 1965, volume I;
1982, volume II) by N.K. Bagaev. More than one generation of Ossetian philologists grew up on
this richly illustrated textbook.

Keywords: Ossetian, articles, scientific work, translation, review, reminiscence.

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