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Abstract. The article is devoted to the anniversary of doctor of historical Sciences, Director of the Institute for Humanitarian Historical-Theoretical Studies named after A.V. Poletayev of National Research University – “The Higher school of Economics”, Professor Irina Maksimovna Savelieva. The author, based on the memoirs and notes published in recent years by the celebrant, as well as personal conversations with I.M. Savelyeva, talks about her family, childhood and school years spent in Riga, about the career choices. The story of studying in MSU named after M.V. Lomonosov takes a significant place, as well as of her first scientific adviser, the specialist in the history of the United States N.I. Sivatchyov, graduation from school and subsequent work at the Institute for international labor movement, the USSR Academy of Sciences. The central place in the article is allotted a fruitful creative collaboration of I.M. Savelieva and A.V. Poletaev, and multifaceted activities of I.M. Savelyeva in the Higher School of Economics, where Irina Maksimovna has created the Institute for Humanitarian Historical-Theoretical Studies and thereby contributed to turning the HSE from a focus on purely practical tasks to training the broader “cultural” range. The article gives a brief overview of the core works of I.M. Savelyeva, written primarily from the standpoint of an interdisciplinary approach, and concluded that the veteran basically managed to expand the horizons of historical science, at least, the preconceived ideas about its subject and objectives.
Keywords: Irina Savelieva, Institute for Humanitarian Historical-Theoretical Studies named after A.V. Poletaev, the HSE, Nicholay Sivatchyov, Institute for International Labor Movement Research, the USSR Academy of Sciences, Andrey Poletayev, the theory, history and methodology of historical science, sociology of knowledge.