Lidia Petrovna Vasikova - a true patriot of her small homeland
The purpose of the article is to characterize the scientific and pedagogical activity of Doctor of Philology, Honorary Professor of the Mari State University Lidia Petrovna Vasikova. Lidia Petrovna is a true patriot of our republic. She connected most of her work with the Mari Pedagogical Institute named after N. K. Krupskaya and the Mari State University - she went from assistant to professor. Her scientific works devoted to the problems of Russian and general linguistics, contrastive linguistics, language contacts, sociolinguistics, Mari linguistics, lexicography, have not lost popularity in the modern scientific world, they continue to be used by students, teachers, linguists... L. P. Vasikova made a significant contribution to solving problems and developing the Hill Mari language. In the early 1990s, she was a member of the Conciliation Commission for the preparation of the draft law “On languages in the Republic of Mari El”, a member of the group of linguistic experts in the preparation of the draft of the new Constitution of the Republic of Mari El and defended the idea of giving both Mari (Hill and Meadow) languages of the state status. On her initiative, for the first time in the history of the republic, a Russian-Hill Mari group was created at the Faculty of History and Philology of MarSU and a research laboratory “Kyryk Mary Yylmy” (“Hill Mari language”) was opened. Lidia Petrovna was the head of the annual republican scientific and practical conferences “Ignatiev Readings”, held since 2001 in the Hill Mari district of the Republic of Mari El. Under her leadership, five postgraduate students wrote and defended dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences. L. P. Vasikova was awarded the titles “Honored Scientist of the Mari ASSR”, “Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation”.