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Abstract. The published memoirs of Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Savchuk contain variety of materials about Rostov (Southern Federal) University and its historical faculty, where the author worked for 38 years. Arriving to an unfamiliar city, he had the opportunity to non-stereotypically perceive his new colleagues and those events and phenomena, which he witnesses, and in which he sometimes participated. As the author himself notes, his memoirs are, of course, subjective, but sincere and honest. V.S. Savchuk offers not idealized but real portraits of Rostov historians. He conveys to the next generations the image of the Rostov historical faculty, which is imprinted in his memory. In the published fragment (second) of the memoirs, the author tells about the professors of the Russian State University A.P. Pronshtein and V.A. Zolotov, about his senior friend associate professor M.A. Luxemburg, about his student L.P. Horishko, about young colleagues — T.G. Kuznetsova, I.M. Uznarodov and others. Memoirist witnessed such faculty events as disputes about the system of specialization at the history faculty, the opening of a new department of the history of the CPSU. The author focuses on the amazing changes that have taken place in the views of many of his colleagues during the era of “perestroika”.
Keywords: Rostov University, history department of Russian State University, professor A.P. Pronshtein, professor V.A. Zolotov, associate professor L.P. Khorishko, associate professor M.A. Luxembourg.