School of Professor I.A. Figurovsky

The future scientist was born on August 24, 1899 in Krasnoyarsk in the family of a priest. At the age of 13, he began his career: he gave private lessons, worked as a proofreader in the provincial printing house and at the same time studied at the Krasnoyarsk Theological Seminary. In 1926 he graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of the word cycle of the Irkutsk Institute of Public Education. He worked as a teacher, was a trade union activist, a member of the educational commission of the district council of the society "Doloi negramtnost'!" After graduating from the university, Ivan Figurovsky begins to actively publish in scientific journals. In 1930 , I.A. Figurovsky moves to Alma-Ata and works at the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute. The young teacher learned the Kazakh language in a short time, which helped him to successfully conduct classes with Kazakh students who do not speak Russian well. He became the author of several textbooks of the Russian language for Kazakh schools, published in the early 30s. Then there was a job at the Gorky Institute of Advanced Training of Educational Workers, head of the Department of Linguistics of the Astrakhan Pedagogical Institute.

During the Great Patriotic War, Sergeant I.A. Figurovsky participated in the battles for the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria. The heroic military page of Ivan Alexandrovich's life path has been awarded numerous awards, including: "For military merits", "For the liberation of Bulgaria", "For the victory over Germany", "20 years of victory in the Second World War", "30 years of victory in the Second World War", "50 years of the armed forces of the USSR", "60 years of the armed forces of the USSR".

After the war, Ivan Alexandrovich worked in Yelets. In 1947, he successfully defended his PhD thesis "Semantic relations between independent sentences and grammatical means of their expression". Having become a candidate in the specialty "Russian language", Ivan Alexandrovich is seriously engaged in the methodology of teaching it. The result of this work was the defense in 1967 of a doctoral dissertation on the methodology of teaching the Russian language "The structure of the text of the work and teaching schoolchildren the structure elements of written works". Simultaneously with the diploma of Doctor of Sciences, Ivan Alexandrovich is awarded the academic title of professor of pedagogical Sciences. Professor I.A. Figurovsky starts researching the syntax of the whole text of Indo-European languages. Proficient in German, English, French, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Belarusian and to varying degrees some languages of the non-Indo-European family of languages, the scientist, comparing the facts of different languages, publishes the book "Introduction to Linguistics", which has become a reference book for philology students.

From 1975 to 1982, I.A. Figurovsky was a professor of the Department of Russian language at the Petropavlovsk Pedagogical Institute named after K.D. Ushinsky. Continuing the study of the syntactic structure of the whole text, the scientist also refers to the texts in the Kazakh language. Over many years of creative work, the professor has published more than 100 scientific and methodological works. For many years he lectured on all courses of the linguistic cycle, for about 30 years he was in charge of various departments. The long-term work of the teacher-scientist was awarded the medal "For Valiant labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin", badges: "Excellent worker of education of the RSFSR" and "Excellent worker of education of the USSR", many Certificates of Honor.

Ivan Alexandrovich provided methodological assistance to young teachers of the department. Young scientists from different cities of the country came to consult a high-class specialist. I.A. Figurovsky's school was open to everyone: he enjoyed working with students, always supported teachers who showed interest in studying serious science. He encouraged teachers to approach their work creatively, to master the methodology of pedagogical experiment. The scientist was convinced that all theoretical propositions should be tested by practice. Years have passed, a lot has changed, but the staff of the former Petropavlovsk Pedagogical Institute (now NKSU) remembers one of its first professors. Ivan Alexandrovich is remembered by his colleagues at the department who became scientists, grateful students who listened to his lectures, many teachers of Russian language and literature.

Z.P.Tabakova, Professor,

Doctor of Philology