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Memory: Sergey Viktorovich Yarov
On September 14, a bitter news of the death of Sergei Viktorovich Yarov , historian , laureate of the Enlightener Award 2014 came .
A person of amazing kindness and nobility, the author of two great books, passed away: “The everyday life of the besieged Leningrad” and “Blacherous Ethics. The idea of morality in Leningrad in 1941-1942. " “Any person starting to describe the blockade ethics experiences a strong emotional stress” - Sergey Viktorovich begins with such words dedicated to ideas about morality in a blockade city. Colleagues who saw him when he wrote his blockade books know how pain and what moral suffering cost his work to him. Sergei Viktorovich understood that in books about the blockade “it may seem inappropriate to be restrained, scientific syllable, the deliberation of scientific techniques. But there is no other way. ” His books are an amazing alloy of scientific honesty and the ability to feel someone else's pain. In essence, Sergey Yarov became the first to find genuine words to express the fullness of the besieged truth: not belittling the feat of Leningraders, he saw behind him deep human suffering and pain. “Everywhere the pain” - with these words he completed his last book.