Ilsa Maksimilianovna Pulkina (Wulfius): the 120th anniversary
The article deals with the main stages of professional activity of the outstanding methodologist I. M. Pulkina (Wulfius) and offers some little-known facts of her biography, drawn from a variety of sources. It concludes that I. M. Pulkina since her early works has been promoted the idea of the speech orientation in teaching Russian as a foreign language, which largely affected the change of methodological guidelines in the 1960s.