Yulia Melentyeva: "There is nothing more interesting than a book and a person" [interview of the journal's editor-in-chief N.V. Lopatina with corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education Yu.P. Melentyeva]

Interview to the electronic scientific journal "Culture: Theory and Practice" by corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation Yulia Petrovna Melentyeva. The problems of studying reading in the modern system of sciences are considered. The tasks and prospects of the development of the science of reading are outlined, the current directions of the study of reading as a civilizational phenomenon are determined.