Memorable years: Elena Mikhailovna Orlova at the Department of Music History in the Ural Conservatory
The article is devoted to the Ural period in the biography of the outstanding Russian scientist and musicologist Elena Mikhailovna Orlova (1908-1985). It is considered that invaluable contribution that she made to the establishment of the department of the history of music as a collective, consisting mainly of young, beginning teachers. The influence of E.M. Orlova on the formation of the scientific outlook of this generation of scientists, their methodological and methodological guidelines. The article uses excerpts from E.M. Orlova with the author of the article. Her original letters to L.A. Serebryakova (as well as back letters are now kept in the fund of E.M. Orlova in the State Musical Memorial Museum-Reserve PI. Tchaikovsky (new name of the State House Museum of PI Tchaikovsky) in Klin, where they were donated by the addressee.