Kostomarov, Vitaly Grigorievich

The son of a historian, a professor at the Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU, G. D. Kostomarov (1896–1970) ^[3] .

He graduated from the Russian Department of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University (1952, external), the English Department of the Translation Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. M. Torez (1953) and the graduate school of the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences . Classmate of Academician Yu. D. Apresyan .

Candidate of Philological Sciences (1955, thesis "Word Formation of Russian Verbs with Infinitive into -bit). Member of the CPSU since 1958. He worked as a translator, then a teacher and head of the department of Russian language HPS at the Central Committee of the CPSU ; in 1964–1966 - Head of the Speech Culture Sector at the Institute of the Russian Language, USSR Academy of Sciences . Since 1966 - Director of the Scientific and Methodological Center of the Russian Language at Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov .

Varlam Shalamov ^[4] , Chingiz Huseynov ^[5] , Alexander Ginzburg ^[6] , as well as the editor and publisher of the journal Syntax , widow of the writer Andrei Sinyavsky Maria Rozanova, claim that Kostomarov, along with other leading Soviet linguists, participated in the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Julius Daniel as an expert on stylistics ^[7] . In 1969, at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, he defended his doctoral thesis “Some features of the press language as a means of mass communication. On the material of the modern Russian newspaper.

General Secretary (1967–1990), President (1990–2003), Vice-President of MAPRYAL . Chairman of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation on Philology and Art Criticism (1999-2011).

Member of the Presidium of the RAO (department of education and culture), is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Interregional Public Foundation “Center for Development of Interpersonal Communications” ^[8] . Member of the editorial board of the journal " Russian language abroad " ^[9] .

Specialist in the field of modern Russian lexicology and stylistics , sociolinguistics , methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language .

One of the students and followers of Academician Viktor Vladimirovich Vinogradov . He also worked under the guidance of L. S. Barkhudarov and E. M. Galkina-Fedoruk . In collaboration with E. M. Vereshchagin, he studied the connections of language and culture, substantiated a special scientific direction - linguistic and cultural studies (books “Language and Culture”, published in six editions, “Linguistic and Cultural Theory of the Word”, etc.).

The total number of publications exceeds 600 ^[10] .

• Speech culture and style. - M., 1960.
• Program of the CPSU on the Russian language. - 1963.
• Russian language on the newspaper page. - M., 1970.
• Russian language on the newspaper page. - M .: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1971.
• Language and culture: new in the theory and practice of linguistic studies (co-authored). - Awarded the prize of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. N. K. Krupskaya. 5 editions: 1973, 1976, 1983, 1990, 1994.
• Russian language among other languages ​​of the world. - 1976.
• Methodological guide for teachers of Russian as a foreign language (co-authored). - 1976, 1978, 1984.
• Linguistic theory of the word (in collaboration). - 1979.
• Language life. - 2 editions: 1984, 1992.
• Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language (in collaboration). - 1990.
• My genius, my language: reflections of a linguist in connection with a public discussion about language. - 1991.
• Linguistic taste of the era: from observations of speech practice of mass media. - 3 editions: 1994, 1995, 1997.
• Reading and honoring Griboedov (co-authored). - 1998.
• Language taste of the era. - SPb .: Zlatoust, 1999.
• Old bottles and wine (in collaboration). - 2001.
• “The world-consciousness is outside and through language. In search of new ways to develop linguistic studies: the episteme (logo) hypothesis (2002, et al.)
• Our language is in action. Sketches of modern Russian style. - M .: Gardariki, 2005.
• Reasoning about the forms of text in communication. - 2 editions: 2008, 2010.

Co-author and editor of a number of textbooks for secondary schools and foreign students, in particular, the Russian Language for All complex (26 editions, awarded the USSR State Prize).

• Order of Friendship of Peoples ( January 3, 1980 ) - for merits in the development of philological science, teacher training and in connection with the fiftieth birthday ^[11]
• Order "Badge of Honor" (1969)
• Pushkin Medal ( June 4, 1999 ) - in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin, for merits in the field of culture, education, literature and art ^[12]
• Medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin " (1970)
• Medal "Veteran of Labor" (1989)
• Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (1997)
• Medal of Honor of Mongolia (1973) and Bulgaria (1978, 1982)
• State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology ( November 1, 1979 ) - for the textbook "Russian for All", published in 1977 (3rd edition) ^[13]
• Award of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education for 2000 ( November 30, 2001 ) - for the cycle of scientific research and the creation of educational and methodological developments on the theme "Socio-cultural, linguistic and didactic aspects of providing intercultural communication in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language" for educational institutions higher vocational education ^[14]
• Bunin Literary Prize (2010)
• Winner of the Pushkin Prize for 2018 in the category "Enlightenment" - "For outstanding achievements in the field of linguistics and popularization of the Russian language throughout the world" ^[15]
• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation ( October 18, 1995 ) - for merits in scientific activities ^[16]
• Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation ( September 25, 2014 ) - for merits in the field of education, science and the training of qualified specialists ^[17]
  • Honorary Doctor :
• Tula State University (2004),
• Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (2008),
• Moscow State Linguistic University (2010),
• Humboldt University (Germany),
• Ya.A. Komensky University (Slovakia),
• University J. Pannonius (Hungary),
• Middlebury College (USA),
• Universities in Shanghai and Harbin (PRC),
• University of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

• The page on the site Irya them. A.S. Pushkin
• RW website page
• An article on the site "Chronicle of Moscow University"
• The norm of the language will perish soon