Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
«ARCHAEOLOGIST OF FACT» AND «DILIGENT CHRONICLER» OF THE DON HISTORY: TO THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ANATOLY IVANOVICH AGAFONOV
Abstract
The article can be considered as an initiative study connected with the complex analysis of scientific and public heritage of the outstanding Don historian Ana-toly Ivanovich Agafonov. The central element of histo-riographic reconstruction is the system evolution of individual problems considered by the Rostov scientist in the context of signiicant sociocultural phenomena with synchronous localization. A considerable attention is also paid to the individual scientiic works of A. I. Agafonov, revealing the immanent features of the emerging authorial methodology, addressed to a vast and diverse factual material, borrowed from differentiated Russian and foreign sources and veriied in the framework of comparative attraction of empirical data of auxiliary disciplines (faleristics, heraldry, genealogy, sphragistics). A special place is given to the fundamental works devoted to the Don history, which is a significant part of the creative heritage of the outstanding jubilee. A long-term work of A. I. Agafonov, associated with the system integration of scientiic knowledge in the educational practices of higher education, carried out both in Russian conditions and in the French academic framework, which showed considerable interest in the demographic problems of the South of Russia. The personal qualities of the Rostov researcher were estimated as well, he is presented as the true Russian intellectual, positioning public interests above his own blessing.
