Mongush, Dorug-ool Aldyn-oolovich

D. A. Mongush was born on December 12, 1928 in the town of Aryg-Bazhy (now the village of Solchur of the Ovure district ) of the Tuvan People’s Republic ^[1] . He studied at the Handagaitinsky and Chadan schools. In 1949 he graduated from high school number 2 in Kyzyl with a silver medal, in 1951 - Abakan Teachers Institute, in 1957 - Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov . After the Abakan Teachers' Institute , he worked for a year as a teacher of the mother tongue at the Kyzyl Pedagogical School. In 1957-1959, while working as a methodologist at the Tuvan Regional Institute for Advanced Teachers, he supervised the creation of programs, textbooks and study guides in the native language for national schools (co-authored with M.D. Biche-ool, B.L. Ondar, A. K. Oidan-ool and others) and the development of the teaching methodology of the Tuvan language in schools ^[2] . In 1962, after graduating from graduate school of the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , he joined the TNIIYALI. He worked at TNIIYALI (now TIGPI) for 55 years. From 1962 to 1972, he was in charge of the language and writing sector, from 1972 to 1979 he was the scientific secretary of TNIIYALI, and from 1979 to 1991, he was deputy director for science. From 1991 to the present, he worked as a leading researcher in the language sector. During his work at the institute, D. A. Mongush became a major specialist in the field of Turkology, played a leading role in Tuvan linguistics, as well as in training personnel in Tuvan philology, in the development of Tuvan language textbooks for schools of the republic ^[3] .

Throughout his scientific creative life, Dorug-ool Mongush worked closely with scholars of Russian linguistics and Turkology, such as EI Ubryatova , V. M. Nadelyaev, S. E. Malov , A ... V. Sevortyan, A. Palmbakh , F. G. Iskhakov , I. A. Batmanov, M. I. Cheremisina , Sh. C. Sat, M. D. Biche-ool, B. I. Tatarintsev, Z. B. Chadamba and others ^[2] . He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers. He made a significant contribution to the preservation and popularization of ancient Turkic runic monuments. He translated the texts of famous monuments of Orkhon-Yenisei writing from the ancient Turkic language to Tuvan, on the basis of which literary translations by the writers Yu. Kyunzegesh and A. Darzhai were made. He is a constant mentor and consultant not only to beginners in the humanities, but also to established, graduate scientists ^[2] . He has written dozens of reviews and reviews on various monographs, master's and doctoral dissertations. He also made a significant contribution to the development of the teaching methodology of the Tuvan language as the author of many educational and methodological works, programs and teaching aids.

• Monograph “Forms of the past tense in the Tuvan language” (Kyzyl, 1963)
• “The Council of the Uda Tuva Dyldyn Khogzhuldezi” (“The Development of the Tuva Language in the Soviet Period” in collaboration with Sh. C. Sat, Kyzyl, 1967)
• “Tuvan writing and some issues of its further development” (1970)
• “Forty Years of Tuvan Writing” (1971)
• The Tuvan Alphabet and Its Improvement (1972)
• "Spelling of the Tuvan language" (1973)
• “50 years of Tuvan national writing” (1980)
• "Some questions of studying the development of the Tuvan language (1981)
• “Tuvan language. The current state of writing and further ways to improve it "(1982)
• “Tuvan Writing” (2001)
• dictionary "Russian-Tuvan educational dictionary ( Moscow , 1988)
• The Explanatory Dictionary of the Tuvan Language ( Novosibirsk , 2003)
• Tuva-Turk Dictionary (Kyzyl, 2005)

He edited various publications: monographs, collections of articles, folklore collections and the following academic volumes

• "Tuvan folk tales"
• “Tuvan Heroic Tales”
• “Monuments of folklore of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East ”
• The Etymological Dictionary of the Tuvan Language by B. I. Tatarintsev (Novosibirsk, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009)

• Honored Scientist of the Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1970)
• National Teacher of the Republic of Tuva (2008)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986)
• Order of the Republic of Tuva (1995)
• medal "For Valiant Labor to Commemorate the Centenary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin"
• Certificate of Merit of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic