Time of Recognition: Scholar, Educator, Teacher in Science. On the Birthday of Professor L.V. Mininkova

Abstract. Historical science is unthinkable without personality and its assessment. The anthropological turn allowed, going beyond the framework of academism, to look at a
contemporary who played a significant role in the author’s life and continues to work in science and pedagogy of the highest level. This article is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Lyudmila Vladimirovna Mininkova, who for many years has been tacitly recognized in the academic community, among students and postgraduates of the Institute of History and International Relations of the Southern Federal University not only as an outstanding scholar, but also a specialist in the history of the Russian Middle Ages and methodology, a master of pedagogy, but also a guarantor of entering the defense of a candidate’s dissertation, of course, subject to the work of a postgraduate student. In the article, the many years of work of Lyudmila Vladimirovna, who accepted the challenge of solving nonstandard problems and solved them in the best way, are illuminated through the personal experience of a person with whom she walked a path of 15 years from the first meeting regarding the candidate’s degree and working under her supervision on a candidate’s dissertation to receiving a doctorate in historical sciences.

Keywords: L.V. Mininkova, Institute of History and International Relations of the Southern Federal University, historical science, early Russian Middle Ages, theory of patrimonial statehood.