The heroine of the article is Lyudmila Verbitskaya, a well-known philologist and a person who has contributed a lot to the development of the modern Russian language, science and education.
Family
The girl's father Alexei Bubnov served as secretary of the Leningrad City Executive Committee since 1943. After some time, he was arrested in the course of the implementation of the Leningrad case. In 1950, a man was shot because of charges of participating in counter-revolutionary activities and assisting enemies. After 4 years, he was posthumously rehabilitated. All members of the family of Alexei Alexandrovich automatically fell under suspicion, for which they were also arrested. The girl's mother was sent to the Taishet camp, and Lyudmila herself ended up in a children's labor correctional colony, where she lived until 1953.
The head of the colony, Viktoria Nikolaevna, immediately noticed an active and capable girl. They communicated with each other, and Victoria Nikolaevna did everything to give the baby the opportunity to build her life. Lyudmila Verbitskaya went to school, and then she was able to pass the entrance exams to the Lviv University at the Faculty of Philology. Afterafter her father was rehabilitated, Verbitskaya was able to transfer to Leningrad.
Career start
Verbitskaya Lyudmila Alekseevna, whose biography is described in this article, graduated with honors from the university. Her life was connected with the Leningrad University for a long time. After graduation, she was a laboratory assistant, then a graduate student, and soon became a junior research fellow. Her career slowly went up, and Lyudmila Verbitskaya became an assistant, and after a while - an assistant professor.
In 1979 she became a professor at the Department of Phonetics and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages. After 6 years, Lyudmila was already the head of the department of general linguistics. The year before, she became vice-rector for academic work, and soon the first vice-rector. In May 1993, she was the acting rector of St Petersburg University, and in the spring of 1994 she became the first female rector of the university. She was re-elected in 1999 and 2004.
During her administration, two new faculties appeared in the educational institution - medical and international relations. In 2008, Lyudmila Verbitskaya became the President of St Petersburg University. In the spring of 2010, in combination with her main position, she became the dean of the Faculty of Philology.
Scientific activity
Verbitskaya Lyudmila Alekseevna wrote about 300 educational and scientific manuals in the fields of phonetics, philology and general linguistics. In her writings, much attention is paid to the choice of effective teaching methods. Many of them deal with the problems of modernpronunciation of words. They formed the basis for the creation of new directions in philology, which are associated with the interference of sounds and pronunciation norms. An important place in her works belongs to the problems of speech culture, semantics, vocabulary and style.
The woman never rested on her laurels, so in 1965 Verbitskaya Lyudmila Alekseevna defended her Ph. D. thesis, and already in 1977 - her doctoral work. A year before defending her candidate's work, she is elected a member of the Russian Academy of Education. In the fall of 2013, he masters a new position - the president of the Russian Academy of Education. Lyudmila Verbitskaya receives government approval for the position.
Under the President of the Russian Federation, Lyudmila Verbitskaya is a member of a number of Councils: on science, linguistics, and guaranteeing the constitutional rights of citizens. In government bodies, a woman is a member of the methodological council for educational publications under the Ministry of Education and Science. In St. Petersburg, he works as an adviser to the governor of the city on education and the media. In 1998, she became President of the Anglo-Speakers Union, which was created under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth. Also, the woman is the UNESCO Vice-President in the field of women's education.
Private life
Husband Lyudmila had a similar story. He was the son of Alexander Verbitsky, who was repressed in the same Leningrad case. Vsevolod Aleksandrovich was Lyudmila's only husband. In marriage, the couple had two girls - Victoria and Elena. The man died in 1998.
Verbitskaya Lyudmila Alekseevna: "Let's speak correctly!"
This monograph was published in 1993. The book is a small reference dictionary that will be useful to anyone who wants to speak correctly. It is intended to enable a person to clarify information about the stress and pronunciation of some words that cause the most doubt for a number of reasons.
The first paragraph of the dictionary contains common words that are very common in everyday speech. The second paragraph contains words that are sorted according to industry and explanatory norms of the language. Most useful for people who work in the economic and political sphere. The third paragraph is devoted to the words that cause the most difficulties. Most often, these are words borrowed from other languages that have not yet fully merged into Russian.
What else did Lyudmila Verbitskaya leave us? "Let's talk like Petersburgers" is a new creation of a philologist, which is dedicated to the issues of youth slang. The project is that the residents of the city will be able to learn about youth words and how to pronounce them correctly. To do this, on the streets of St. Petersburg on billboards, in the subway, in public transport, etc., they hung posters that contain educational information. In an interview, Lyudmila Verbitskaya says that this project is aimed not only at the guests of the city, but at all, because many people do not know the elementary rules for years. In addition, she notes that it is very interestingwatch the language change.
Awards
Lyudmila Verbitskaya has a huge number of awards, so only a few of them will be listed here. Among the awards of the philologist, the following should be noted: the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (all four degrees), the Order of Honor, the Order of Friendship, the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga, as well as the title of Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg.
She received her first Order of Merit in 2000 for her significant contribution to Russian education. The woman received the same Order of III degree in the winter of 2004 for the development of science and contribution to the training of professional personnel. In the summer of 2006, Verbitskaya received the II degree for many years of teaching work and contribution to the development of national education. In the summer of 2016, Lyudmila receives the 1st degree for her fruitful work and invaluable contribution to the development of education.
Proceedings
The most popular work of the philologist is the monograph "Let's speak correctly!". The woman also wrote “Practical Phonetics and Conversations in RL”, “The Main Features of the Modern Russian Literary Pronunciation Norm”, “A Handbook on Phonetics”, “Fundamentals of Phonetics”, “Problems and Methods of Speech Analysis”, etc. All her life, Lyudmila Verbitskaya wrote works that can help everyone!
