The author presents the creative biography of Professor Yu. m. Butin, a well-known orientalist, specialist in the ancient history of Korea and the Korean language. Yu. m. Butin created three departments of Oriental studies and world economy in Irkutsk universities, organized the teaching of the Korean language, published a textbook and manuals. Historian-orientalist Yu. m. Butin (1931–2002) – a major specialist in the ancient history of Korea, author of monographs: “Ancient Joseon” (Novosibirsk, 1982), “Korea: from Joseon to Three States” (Novosibirsk, 1984), which were included in the Golden Fund of Russian Korean studies. Later, these books were translated and published in South Korea in 1986 and 1990 in Seoul, and became firmly established in Russian and world Korean studies. The creative biography of Professor Yu. M. Butin, an orientalist, Korean scholar, historian and economist, deserves special research.

Kuzmin Yuri Vasilevich, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Department of World Economy and Economic Security, Baikal State University, 11, Lenin st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: Kuzminuv@yandex.ru

Kuzmin Y.V. Professor Yuri Mikhailovich Butin – Military Translator, Orientalist, Economist and Historian. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2020, vol. 34, pp. 65-72. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2020.34.65 (in Russian)

1. Butin Yu.M. Drevnii Choson: (Ist.-arkheol. ocherk). [Ancient Choson. An historical and archaeological sketch] Novosibirsk, Nauka Publ., 1982, 330 p. (in Russian) 
2. Butin Yu.M. Koreya v epokhu rannikh gosudarstv [Korea in the era of the early states]: doctoral dissertation abstract. Leningrad, 1986, 35 p. (in Russian)
3. Butin Yu.M. Koreya: ot Chosona k Trem Gosudarstvam (II v. do n. e. – IV v.) [Korea: from Joseon to the Three States (2nd century BC – 4th century).]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1984, 255 p. (in Russian)
4. Butin Yu.M. Manchzhuriya i Koreya [Manchuria and Korea]. Istoriya narodov Vostochnoi i Tsentral'noi Azii s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei [History of the peoples of East and Central Asia from ancient times to the present day]. Moscow, 1986, pp. 105-117. (in Russian)
5. Butin Yu. M. Uchebnik koreiskogo yazyka [Korean language textbook]. Irkutsk, SIPEU Publ., 2003, 152 p. (in Russian)
6. Butin Yu. M. Ekonomicheskaya istoriya Vostochnoi Azii [Economic history of East Asia]. Irkutsk, Irkutsk State University Publ., 1994, 269 p. (in Russian)
7. Vostochnye etyudy. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov SIPEU [Oriental studies. Collection of scientific works of SIPEU]. Irkutsk, SIPEU Publ., 2000-2001, 159 p. (in Russian)
8. Miliband S.D. Biobibliograficheskii slovar otechestvennykh vostokovedov [Biobibliographic Dictionary of Russian Orientalists]. Book 1 A-L. Moscow, Nauka, 1995, 207 p. (in Russian)
9. Butin Yu.M. Gojoseon [Ancient Joseon]. Seoul, 1990. (in Korean)