LUDWIG CHIBIROV: SCIENTIST AND STATESMAN (TO THE 90-th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCIENTIST'S BIRTH)
The article deals with the research, pedagogical, socio-political and state activities of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, RSO-A and RSO, Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Abkhazia, Honorary Rector of the South Ossetian State University, the first President of the Republic of South Ossetia. Particular attention is paid to the contribution of L.A. Chibirov to ethnographic Caucasian studies.