Historiograph, methodizer of the new generation (on V.S. Pryadein's 60-th birthday)

The article is given to the estimation of the scientific work of V.S. Pryadein, a well-known Urals historian-methodizer. His formation as "historiograph of new generation, concentrating his attention on the record of the historical science, having his special views on the theoretical problems of historiography" is conformed. The important contribution in science which V.S. Pryadein made with his scientific works is particularly shown