A wise leader, a talented historian, a wonderful person. Impressions of peers and students about I.V. Naumov

Igor Vladimirovich Naumov, Professor of the Department of History and Philosophy, Honored Professor of the Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Historical Sciences, turned 70 on January 29, 2024. From 1977 to the present he has been working at Irkutsk Polytechnic, including from 1993 to 2016 as head of the Department of Russian History, having worked his way up from a laboratory assistant to a professor. The article presents the most vivid and systematic impressions of the hero of the day of his peers Yu.A. Petrushin and L.V. Korchevina, and one of the many students – P.A. Novikov, his successor as head. The main milestones of the labor and scientific biography are listed, the main achievements and titles of scientific works are indicated in detail. It is noted that already as a student I.V. Naumov had good reading and a wayward character. Throughout his life, the hero of the day carried a passion for tourism, for traveling, for learning about the world around him, nature, and historical sights of Russia. In the ascetic field of teaching in higher education, he proved himself to be a wonderful person, a brilliant historian, an excellent teacher, a strategically thinking organizer and leader, a productive scientific supervisor. Igor Vladimirovich saw his main task in awakening the interest of students in history. Pedagogical gift, scientific and research diligence, integrity and directness have earned well-deserved authority and universal respect. He showed a rare ability to sincerely rejoice in the successes of subordinates, spared no effort to create a favorable psychological climate at the department, organizing festive and leisure events, trips of colleagues to nature. I.V. Naumov embodies the ideal of a comprehensively developed personality.