НАУКОВО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНА ТА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ СХОДОЗНАВЦЯ І. І. БЄЛЯКЕВИЧА (1925-1978)

The article examines the circumstances of the career path of the Soviet Orientalist, member of the Board of the All-Ukrainian Scientific Association of Orientalists (1929-1930), president (1944-1948) and dean of the Faculty of History (1950-1952) of Lviv State University, senior researcher (1945-1946) of Lviv Department of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, member of the Communist Party I. Belyakevich (1905-1984). The State Archive of the Odesa Region contains historical sources that allow us to reconstruct the main stages of the scholar's life. On the basis of a wide range of documentary materials, many of which are introduced to scientific circulation for the first time, attention is paid to the most important facts of his biography, turning points in his fate, and his participation in the development of Ukrainian Oriental studies in the 1920s-1950s is discussed in detail. Emphasis in the study is not based on the creative or personal life of the scientist, but on the vectors and stages of his institutional biography. The trajectory of his career is exemplary for representatives of the early Soviet generation of scientists: birth in a village - working faculty - institute, the beginning of a scientific trajectory - war / evacuation - continuation of a scientific and administrative career, all in a straight upward line. The person was enrolled in a single system of scientific institutes, sought to achieve the career heights available to Soviet scientists, having received high posts and awards. Consequently, being a not very successful scholar, teacher and administrator, he was not inferior to his colleagues in the hierarchical ladder of science. At the turn of the era in the 1950s, the Khrushchev Thaw became the stage of his progressive retreat from the management of scientific and pedagogical processes. Former grandiose career achievements in Stalin's times were interpreted as a sign of the scientist's unprincipled nature. The different ratio of talent, conformity, ambitions for power and the desire to achieve material goods were the ingredients that instilled a similar formula of career success and different perceptions of this success by contemporaries. The life path of I. Belyakevich is designed to illustrate the possibilities of social mobility of a person in science during the Soviet period. For the scientific corporation of the regional level, the significance of the personality of I. Belyakevich is connected with his leadership activities at Lviv University. The biography of the Soviet scientist testifies to the ability of science and its representatives to adapt to various circumstances, including political pressure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]