«On the Pulse of Time». To the 90th Anniversary of Y.V. Bogdanov

The article presents information about the creative path of the outstanding Russian scholar in Slavic studies, specialist in Slovak literature and its active popularizer Y.V. Bogdanov. His main works are considered, first of all monographic articles prepared as sections on Slovak literature for a number of fundamental historical and literary works of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Y.V. Bogdanov for the first time in Russian science presented and summarized the main stages of the development of Slovak literature of the twentieth century, showed the characteristic features of artistic phenomena and figures that determined its original national image.