Verbitskaya, Lyudmila Alekseevna

Father, Alexey Alexandrovich Bubnov , since 1943 was the secretary of the Leningrad City Executive Committee; mother - Anna Stepanovna, housewife ^[1] . On August 31, 1949, A. A. Bubnov was arrested as part of the Leningrad affair , on October 28 or 29 ^[2] 1950 he was executed (on charges of “criminal connection with the enemies of the people and participation in a counter-revolutionary group”), rehabilitated on May 14, 1954. Members of the Bubnov family were also arrested, Lyudmila’s mother was sent to the Taishet camp, and Lyudmila ended up in the children's labor penal colony in Lviv , where she was until 1953. Thanks to the deputy head of the colony, Victoria Nikolaevna, Lyudmila got the opportunity, while in the colony, to study at a regular city school, and then go to Lviv University (in the Russian department of the philological faculty). After rehabilitation, Bubnov and his family transferred to Leningrad University .

In 1958 she graduated with honors from the philological faculty of Leningrad State University , majoring in Russian Language and Literature, and a student of L. R. Zinder . In 1965 she defended her thesis “Sound units of Russian speech and their relationship with shades and phonemes”, in 1977 - her doctoral dissertation “Contemporary Russian literary pronunciation (Experimental-phonetic research)”.

She worked at the university: senior laboratory assistant (1958-1961), graduate student (1961-1964), junior researcher , assistant, associate professor , since 1979 professor at the department of phonetics and foreign language teaching methods of the philological faculty, since 1985 - head of the department of general linguistics. In 1984-1986 - Vice-rector for Academic Affairs, then the first Vice-Rector, since May 1993 (after the sudden death of S.P. Merkuryev ) - and. about. rector, in April 1994 was elected rector of St. Petersburg State University, re-elected in 1999 and 2004. The first woman rector of St. Petersburg State University. With her, two new faculties were opened at the university: international relations and medical. Since February 18, 2008 - President of St. Petersburg State University, since April 26, 2010 also Dean of the Faculty of Philology. Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University (2011).

In 1995, she was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO) , a member of the Presidium of the North-West Branch of RAO. October 29, 2013 was elected president of the Russian Academy of Education, November 11, 2013 approved in this position by the Government of the Russian Federation ^[3] .

He is a member of the Council of Rectors of the Northwestern Federal District , co-chair of the Association of Classical Universities of the Russian Federation. Vice President, UNESCO Women's Education Commission. Since 1999 - President of the Russian Society of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (ROPRYAL) , since 2003 he has also headed MAPRYAL . Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russkiy Mir Foundation (since 2010).

He holds a number of public posts:

• Under the President of the Russian Federation : Deputy Chairman of the Council on Science, Technology and Education (2004-2008, then until 2012 a member of the Presidium), member of the Council on Science and Education (since 2015; member of the Presidium since 2017); a member of the Councils on the Russian language ^[4] and on the implementation of priority national projects, a member of the Expert Council under the Office of the President of the Russian Federation to ensure the constitutional rights of citizens;
• Under the Government of the Russian Federation : member of the Commission on Education and the Russian Language Council under the Government of the Russian Federation , is a member of the Scientific and Methodological Council for Textbooks under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (since 2015 - Chairman of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association in the higher education system in an enlarged group of specialties and areas of preparation “45.00.00 Linguistics and Literary Studies” ^[5] ), since 2016 - Deputy Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission ;
• In St. Petersburg: Advisor to the Governor for Education, Science and the Media; Co-Chair of the Speech Culture Council under the Governor of St. Petersburg, member of the Scientific and Technical Council and the Commission on State Awards under the Governor, as well as the Public Council of St. Petersburg. Member of the Board of Trustees of EU St. Petersburg . Since 1998 - President of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of English-speaking, created under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain ^[6] .

Sister - surgeon, professor of the medical faculty of St. Petersburg State University N. A. Bubnova (born 1944) ^[7] .

For 42 years, L. A. Verbitskaya’s husband was Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Verbitsky (1933-1998), associate professor of LETI , the son of Alexander Dmitrievich Verbitsky , also repressed in the Leningrad case; two daughters were born in a marriage, Elena and Victoria ^{[8] [9]} .

Representative of the Leningrad phonological school . He is the author of about 300 scientific and educational works in the field of Russian and general linguistics, phonetics , phonology and methods of teaching the Russian language. Her works on the problems of modern pronunciation laid the foundation for new promising areas of linguistics - "Pronunciation norm of the modern Russian literary language" and "The interference of sound systems at the phonetic level." An important place in her work is occupied by the issues of speech culture , stylistics , vocabulary and semantics of the modern Russian language.

Russian

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree (June 11, 2016) - for his outstanding contribution to the development of education and many years of fruitful activity ^[10]
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree (June 17, 2006) - for outstanding contribution to the development of national education and many years of research and teaching activity ^[11]
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” III degree (February 7, 2004) - for his great contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists and the development of domestic science ^[12]
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (April 27, 2000) - for his great personal contribution to the development of higher education and the training of highly qualified specialists ^[13]
• Order of Honor (June 16, 2011) - for his great contribution to the development of education, the training of qualified specialists in the field of philology and many years of fruitful activity ^[14]
• Order of Friendship (March 27, 1996) - for services to the state, successes achieved in work, and a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples ^[15]
• Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (March 12, 2014) - for the achieved labor successes, many years of fruitful work, and active legislative activity ^[16]
• Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (since May 2006)
• Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga of the III degree (ROC)
• Order of the Monk Euphrosyne, Grand Duchess of Moscow, II degree (ROC, 2016) ^[17] .
• Order of the Duslyk (Tatarstan, 2016) ^[18]

Foreign

• Legion of Honor ( France ), Chevalier
• Order of the Academic Palms (France), commander
• Order of Merit to the Republic of Poland ( Poland ), Cavalier
• Order of Princess Olga of the III degree ( Ukraine ) (2003) ^[19]

Awards

• Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education for 2001
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for 2007
• Laureate of the National Olympia Women's Public Recognition Award, Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship ^[20] in 2003
• Great Britain Royal Jubilee Foundation Award Winner 1997
• Winner of the Chingiz Aitmatov Prize (2015) - for many years of work in the field of popularizing the Russian language throughout the world ^[21]
• Prize of the President of the Russian Federation for his contribution to strengthening the unity of the Russian nation (October 24, 2018) ^[22] .

Honorary Doctor of a number of Russian and foreign universities, including Bologna University , New York University , Soka University (Japan), Kemion and Sukmen Universities (Korea), Chinese Culture University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg State Technical University , St. Petersburg State Medical University , Novgorod State University Yaroslav the Wise , Voronezh University , Far Eastern State University , Petrozavodsk State University . Honorary Doctor of the National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov (2008).

Other

• On January 24, 2000, the name “Verbitskaya” was assigned to the minor planet No. 7451 .

• Some questions of Russian orthoepy // OW abroad, 1970, No. 2. (article)
• Russian orthoepy. L., 1976.
• Problems and methods of experimental phonetic analysis of speech. L., 1979.
• The dynamics of the structure of the SRY. L., 1982. (coll. Monogr.)
• A manual on Russian phonetics for foreign philology students. M .: RYA, 1983. (textbook)
• Bondarko L.V. , Verbitskaya L.A., Gordina M.V. Fundamentals of general phonetics. L., 1983.

  Bondarko L.V., Verbitskaya L.A., Gordina M.V. Fundamentals of general phonetics. - 4th ed., Rev. - St. Petersburg: Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University; M .: Publishing Center "Academy", 2004. - 160 p. - ISBN 5-8465-0177-X . ISBN 5-7695-1658-5 .

• Manual on the phonetics of OW. M., 1983
• Estonian-Russian bilingualism, the composition of phonemes in the language. Sat tr teacher. Institute of EstSSR, Tallinn, 1986. (article)
• Practical phonetics of OW. Timmendorfenstrand, Germany, 1987. (textbook)
• Phonetics of spontaneous speech. L., 1988. (coll. Monogr.)
• Conversations on OW (Method. Speech development manual). Hamburg, 1988
• The main features of modern Russian literary pronunciation norms. "Russian Studies" Ferlag, 1, 1990. (article)
• Manual on the phonetics of OW. St. Petersburg State University, 1993. “Principal”: Rus. orthoepy. L., 1976. (monograph)
• RJ textbook for 1st year students. Dorum, USA, 1991
• New Rus. vocabulary. Conf. Materials on vocabulary issues. Bologna, Italy, 1991
• Let's talk right! M., 1993. (monograph)
• Language and society. The role of language in the life of society // Pedagogy , 2015. - No. 2.

• Biography on the site of St. Petersburg State University
• Page on the website of the Russian Academy of Education
• Page on the website of the philological faculty of St. Petersburg State University
• Page on the website of the Russian Union of Rectors
• Page on the site of the Russkiy Mir Foundation
• Page on the archive site of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia
• Memoirs of Lyudmila Verbitskaya about her childhood in the film "Children of the Siege"
• An article in the bio-bibliographic dictionary “Education, Science, Culture”