Lokshin is one of the authors of history books, including those on Vietnam, and the author of many articles on the national liberation movement in Southern Vietnam. Source: sputniknews.vn

Grigory Mikhailovich Lokshin, a well-known Russian expert in Vietnamese studies, passed away on September 7 following a long period of illness. He was 84, according to VNA.

Grigori M. Lokshin was born on April 1, 1938. In 1961, he graduated from Moscow International Relations University (MGIMO) and 3 years later successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the same university with the topic “National liberation movement in South Vietnam in the early years of Vietnam (1954–1964).”

At the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1961), Lokshin joined the Soviet Union’s first direct Vietnamese translation team.

Lokshin, from the Center for Vietnam and ASEAN Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences, directly participated in the organization of mass movements in Russia for unity with the Vietnamese and coordinate them with socialist movements in other countries in order to call for an end to the war in Vietnam during the 1965-1973 period.

He continued the struggle for peace in the period 1973-1993, in the position of Secretary and General Secretary of the USSR Committee for the Protection of Peace. In 1994, he became Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Association of International Peace Funds, and in 1998 – General Secretary of the International Peace Institute in Vienna (Austria). Lokshin greatly contributed to the cessation of nuclear weapons tests.

He had worked as Vice President of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association since 2007.

Vietnamese studies expert Lokshin. Photo: VOV

Lokshin is also one of the authors of history books, including those on Vietnam, and the author of many articles on the national liberation movement in Southern Vietnam.

He is one of the authors of the books “Modern History of Vietnam” (1965), “The Public and Issues of War and Peace” (1978), and “Twentieth Century: Looking Straight and Looking Sideward” (2001).

With the significant contributions to people-to-people exchange, scientific activities, and Vietnam-Russia relations, the expert has been honored with the friendship order between nations of the Soviet Union.

He was also awarded the friendship order of the Vietnamese State twice, and other medals.

A memorial service for Lokshin will be held in Moscow on September 11.

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