KHAIDAR SAYRANOVICH SAYRANOV: LIFE AND WORK (ON THE 110th ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH)

The article is dedicated to the life, party and scientific activities of Khaidar Sairanovich Sairanov, who head ed the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) from 1963 to 1980. He will turn 110 years old on April 12, 2025. He lived a difficult life, but one filled with significant and turning points in his destiny. The article uses documentary sources identified in the National Archives of the Republic of Bashkorto stan in the personal collection of Kh.S. Sairanova (f. 1707) and the fund of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the CPSU (f. 122) and in the Scientific Archive of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sci ences in the fund of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Baltic Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (f. 3).First of all, this is a personal file, which contains documents concerning activities in party and public bodies, work at the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Baltic Branch of the USSR Acade my of Sciences in 1963-1980. Of no small importance are autobiographical information about different periods of life, scientific works and publications of Kh.S. Sayranov. The Institute's reports during the periods of its leader ship provide data on the status of implementation of planned thematic developments, indicating participation as a responsible editor, as part of the author's team. Khaidar Sairanovich Sairanov received a history education at the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute and be gan his career in the editorial office of the newspaper "Kommuna", later the newspaper "Kyzyl tan". In subsequent years he was used for Komsomol work in the republic. After graduating from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), he remained in organizational and party work in the Central Committee of the Party. After completing his studies at the Department of Party Building at the Academy of Social Sciences, he wrote his PhD dissertation, which he successfully defended in 1952. Subse quently, he was sent to the disposal of the Bashkir regional party committee. In the republic, he worked as an edi tor of the newspaper "Soviet Bashkiria", in the regional party school as the head of the department of party con struction, then in the regional party committee, where he went from lecturer, instructor to secretary of the regional committee for propaganda and agitation. In accordance with the new requirements of the CPSU Charter, in the early 1960s he was transferred from the regional committee of the CPSU to the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences to the position of director of the Institute of History, Language and Literature, where he worked until February 1980. Despite his busy schedule, he also devoted considerable attention to scientific work. He took an active part in the preparation of general planning works, including the preparation of the history of the regional party organization, documentary collections, monographs and articles on current issues in the history of Bashkiria during the Soviet period. From December 1963 until the beginning of February 1980, the entire life and work of Kh.S. Sayranovwas connected with the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Having headed the institute, he assumed responsibility for its further development during a difficult time of reorganization and fulfillment of important tasks. They were carried out in a timely and successful manner, as evidenced by the publication by the institute of general works and scientific papers, which were reflected in reports, which was a kind of assessment of the activities of not only the institute, but above all the director himself.