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{{short description|Russian indologist}}

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'''Eugene Petrovich Chelyshev ''' or '''E. P. Chelyshev''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Евгений Петрович Челышев}}, 27 October 1921 – 13 July 2020<ref name="ras.ru">{{cite web|url=http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-46.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12|title=Челышев Евгений Петрович|publisher=[[Russian Academy of Sciences]]|language=ru|trans-title=Chelyshev Evgeniy Petrovich}}</ref>) was a Russian [[Indologist]], academician and public figure.<ref name="भारतीय साहित्य में योगदान के लिए ई.पी. चेलीशेव के 90वें वर्षगांठ पर उनकी सराहना">{{cite web|title=भारतीय साहित्य में योगदान के लिए ई.पी. चेलीशेव के 90वें वर्षगांठ पर उनकी सराहना|url=http://www.pravasiduniya.com/bhartiya-sahitya-mein-yogdan-ke-liye-e-p-Chelyshev-ke-90-janmdivas-par-unki-sarahna|publisher=Pravasi Duniya|access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="My India Eternal India">{{cite book|last=Vivekananda|first=Swami|title=My India : the India eternal|year=1996|publisher=Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture|location=Calcutta|isbn=81-85843-51-1|page=234|edition=1st}}</ref> He was a full-time member of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] (1987), and he was the Academician-Secretary of the Department of Literature and Language Sciences (1988–2002), and a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded two [[Orders of the Red Star]] (1944, 1949), [[Order of the Patriotic War]] II degree (1985), [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]] IV Degree (1997), III degree (2007), II degree (2020), [[Order of Honour (Russia)|Order of Honour]] (2012). Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.<ref name="soldat">{{cite web|title=Челышев Евгений Петрович. Академик Российской академии наук|url=http://www.biograph-soldat.ru/200/ARTICLES/BIO/chelyshev_ep.htm|access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Chelyshev was born on 27 October 1921, to a Moscow merchant family. In 1939, after graduating from high school, he started his studies at the [[Mendeleev Russian University of Chemistry and Technology|Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering]]. A freshman, he was drafted into the army and sent to flight school in the military town Sescha in Orel Military District.<ref name="ras.ru" />

In 1949, he graduated from the [[Military academies in Russia|Military Institute of Foreign Languages]] of the [[Red Army]] (Eastern Division) and enrolled in post-graduate courses. In 1952, he defended his thesis in [[linguistics]] and obtained the degree of [[Candidate of Sciences]]. Until the closing of the institute in 1956, he remained the head of the department of Indian languages.<ref name="ras.ru" />

After his discharge with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Chelyshev worked for over 30 years at the [[Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences|Institute of Oriental Studies]] of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], where he was the head of the Indian [[Philology]] department.<ref>{{cite web |title=Report of 9th General Conference, UNESCO |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001439/143927eb.pdf |date=11 February 1957 |publisher=UNESCO}}</ref> At the same time, he became the director of the Department of Indian Languages, [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]], Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1956–1975).<ref name="ras.ru" /> In 1965, he wrote his thesis on [[Indian literature]] and obtained the degree of [[Doktor nauk|Doctor of Sciences]]. In 1981 Chelyshev was elected a corresponding member of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]], and in 1987, a full member of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]]. A year later he was elected Academician-Secretary of the Department of Literature and Language of the Academy of Sciences of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]] and was a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.<ref name="ras.ru" />

== Academic career ==
His main subjects of research were: Literary and Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Indian philology.<ref name="ras.ru" />

In 2002, he was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian award, [[Padma Bhushan]] (Order of the Lotus)<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014}}</ref> along with Russian scientist [[Gury Marchuk]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Vibhushan for Rangarajan, Soli Sorabjee|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/01/26/stories/2002012605040100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719113305/http://www.hindu.com/2002/01/26/stories/2002012605040100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 July 2009|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2002-01-26|access-date=26 January 2002}}</ref> In 2004 he became the first Russian to be awarded the [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] by the [[Government of India]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Academician Y.P. Chelyshev 90th birth anniversary celebrations|url=http://rusembassy.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3376%3Aacademician-yp-chelyshev-90th-birth-anniversary-celebrations-&catid=4%3Aembassy-news&lang=en|publisher=[[Russian Embassy, India]]}}</ref>

Chelyshev has been a member of the [[Soviet Union of Writers|Writers' Union]] for the last 30 years.<ref name="ras.ru" /> During the preparation and conduct of the 200th anniversary of the birth of [[Alexander Pushkin]], as a member of the "Pushkin Jubilee Committee", he led a large group of academicians for which he was awarded [[Medal of Pushkin]] by the [[President of Russia|President]] of the [[Russian Federation]].<ref name="ras.ru" />

He was a member of the Bureau of Indian Philosophical Society, and a member of [[The Asiatic Society]].<ref name="ras.ru" />

=== Vivekananda research and cultivation ===
Chelyshev was a researcher and admirer of [[Swami Vivekananda]].<ref name="Dasgupta1991">{{cite book|author=Santwana Dasgupta|title=Vivekananda, the Prophet of Human Emancipation: A Study on the Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HQcAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Bijaya Dasgupta|page=352}}</ref> For more than last thirty years he has been researching on and working to spread the culture and message of Vivekananda. He was one of the vice-presidents of the Committee for Comprehensive Study of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Movement.<ref name="My India : the India eternal">{{cite book|last=Vivekananda|first=Swami|title=My India : the India eternal|year=1996|publisher=Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture|location=Calcutta|isbn=9788185843513|pages=234|edition=1st}}</ref>

He told about Vivekananda—<ref name="Tributes to Swami Vivekananda">{{cite web|title=Tributes to Swami Vivekananda|url=http://americanvedantist.org/2010/articles/swami-vivekananda-and-liberation-theology/|publisher=Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture|access-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>
<blockquote>I think that Vivekananda's greatest service is the development in his teaching of the lofty ideals of humanism which incorporate the finest features of Indian culture.... In my studies of contemporary Indian literature, I have more than once had the opportunity to see what great influence the humanistic ideals of Vivekananda have exercised on the works of many writers.... [In] Vivekananda's humanism, we recognize that it possesses many features of active humanism manifested above all in a fervent desire to elevate man, to instill in him a sense of his own dignity, sense of responsibility for his own destiny and the destiny of all people, to make him strive for the ideals of good, truth and justice, to foster in man abhorrence for any suffering.... Together with the Indian people, Soviet people who already know some of the works of Vivekananda published in the USSR, highly revere the memory of the great Indian patriot, humanist and democrat, impassioned fighter for a better future for his people and all mankind.</blockquote>

== Bibliography ==
* ''Modern Hindi poetry''. (Современная поэзия хинди.) Moscow, 1965;
* ''[[Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala']]''. (Сурьякант Трипатхи Нирала.) Moscow, 1978;
* ''Contemporary Indian literature''. (Современная индийская литература.) Moscow, 1981;
* ''Sumitranandan Pant: The Singer of the Himalayas''. (Сумитранандан Пант. Певец Гималаев.) Moscow, 1985;
* ''Indian literature yesterday and today''. (Индийская литература вчера и сегодня.) Moscow, 1988;
* ''Selected Works. In three volumes.'' (Избранные труды. В 3 томах.) Moscow, 2002;
* ''Russian Emigration: 1920-30-ies. History and modernity.'' (Российская эмиграция: 1920-30-е годы. История и современность.) Moscow, 2002.
* ''[[Uzkoye]] Estate and Vladimir Solovyov. M.'', 2012. (Усадьба Узкое и Владимир Соловьёв; co-authored with M. Yu. Korobko).

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