Budaev, Dmitry Ivanovich

Dmitri Budaev was born on July 19, 1923 on the farm Semichevsky of the Sukhinichsky district of the Kaluga region to a peasant family. After graduating from the Sobolev Seven-Year-Plan, he entered and successfully completed his studies at the Kozelsk Pedagogical School. On June 21, 1941, he received a diploma from a secondary school teacher.

With the beginning of World War II, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the 95th reserve rifle regiment. He graduated from the school junior commanders. According to the distribution, he entered the 782th separate sapper battalion, commanded the detachment ( near Moscow ). He took part in the battles for the liberation of Ukraine , Moldova , Romania ( Yassy-Kishinev operation ), Hungary , Czechoslovakia . Later he was appointed to the post of deputy political officer of the pontoon company of the 102nd separate pontoon-bridge battalion of the North-Western Front . He was sent to the Leningrad military-political school, after which he was appointed to the post of commissar of the 794th Infantry Regiment of the 232nd Infantry Division of the 40th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front . In 1945, Lieutenant Budayev was an assistant to the head of the political department of the 240th rifle division for work among Komsomol members and young people. On April 7, 1945, he was seriously wounded in the legs and stomach in the territory of Czechoslovakia and sent to the front-line hospital. He was under treatment for more than a year, and then, for health reasons, he was demobilized from the army. In the war, Dmitry Ivanovich lost two brothers. For distinctions in the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Red Star, medals. He told about his life at the front and combat affairs of fellow soldiers in the book “Roads of my memory”.

In 1946, Budayev arrived in Smolensk and entered the Pedagogical Institute , which he graduated in 1950 . He was sent to work in the regional museum of local lore as a deputy director for science, and then became the director of the museum. In 1956 - 1958 he was in charge of the culture department of the regional newspaper “ Work Path ”, at the same time he was a member of the editorial board of the literary Smolensk almanac. December 10, 1957 in Moscow State University defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of historical sciences. In 1958 he was invited to a permanent job in the pedagogical institute for the position of assistant professor . In SSPI worked as an associate professor of the Department of History of the USSR, head of the department, dean of the faculty, vice-rector for scientific and vice-rector for educational work. In April 1969 he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1970, approved in the rank of professor ^[1] .

Throughout his life, Budayev actively participated in the social and political life of not only the region, but also the country as a whole. He was one of the organizers of the regional branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture , from 1972 to 1988 headed its presidium, then was honorary chairman, member of the Central Council. Since March 1992, he headed the regional branch of the Union of Local History Studies of Russia ^[1] .

Budayev was a prominent specialist in the field of agrarian history of post-reform Russia . His monographs “The Peasant Reform of 1861 in the Smolensk Province ” ( 1967 ), “The Smolensk Village at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries” ( 1972 ) are among the most fundamental studies on this subject. He is the vice-chairman of the association on the agrarian history of Russia. He edited the monograph “History of the Peasantry of the Western Region of Russia. 1861-1917. He wrote many works, including books on economic and social history, source study and historiography, and the revolutionary movement in the Smolensk region. On his initiative and with the most active participation, with prefaces or introductory articles, many collections of archival documents, guidebooks on memorable places of his native land, tourist routes ^{[2] were} published.

For several decades, Budayev led a special course on local lore at SGPI, read a course of lectures at the school for the preparation of guides. From 1974 to 1990 he headed the Department of Local History at the University of Marxism-Leninism, Smolensk Regional Committee of the CPSU. During this time, more than 600 people received a diploma of lecturer, local historian, propagandist on the problems of patriotic and international education. He wrote several books on the history of Smolensk regional studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the local lore dictionary Smolensk Region, the short encyclopedia Smolensk, the two-volume encyclopedia Smolensk Region, and other reference publications ^[2] .

For about 50 years of his scientific, pedagogical and social and political activities, Budayev has written 10 books and monographs in person, another 16 co-authored, and more than 20 brochures were compiled. He participated as a compiler, author of the introductory article, editor in charge of 6 collections of archival documents, co-authored 9 textbooks, teaching aids, is the author of over 50 book reviews, more than 10 articles published in journals of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences, dozens of his articles were published in local magazines. The total number of scientific works of DI Budaev: more than 550 titles ^[2] .

He died on October 1, 2011, was buried in the Bratsk cemetery of Smolensk.

Doctor of Historical Sciences (1969), Professor (1970). Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1983). He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War , 1st and 2nd degrees, the Order of the Red Star , the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , the Order of Honor ( 1999 ), as well as a number of medals and diplomas ^[1] .

By the decision of the Smolensk City Council of April 28, 2000 No. 531, Dmitry Ivanovich Budaev was awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of the Hero City” for “great contribution to historical science, protection of historical and cultural monuments of the Smolensk Region, scientific and educational activities, and active participation in the public life of the city”. Smolensk ” ^[1] .

July 18, 2015 on the house number 22 on the street Isakovsky in Smolensk, where Budayev lived for more than 30 years, a memorial plaque was installed.