Viktor Mikhailovich Chizhikov: service to culture

The article is dedicated to the memory of Viktor Mikhailovich Chizhikov, a talented scientist and teacher who devoted himself to serving culture and art. The author shares his reminiscences about the life and creative activity of Viktor Mikhailovich, about his formation as a person. Memories are filled with very personal, emotional feelings telling about childhood and youth in the war and difficult post-war years, about the passion for music, which opened the young man the way to the world of art and culture. The author notes the characteristic features of the personality of Viktor Mikhailovich, his constant desire to learn, learn new things and transfer the acquired knowledge to people, as well as his great potential as an organizer and leader. The work experience of ChizhikovV. M., emphasizes the author of the article, is more than sixty years, of which twenty years he worked in the party and public service, and for about forty years he devoted pedagogical and scientific activities at the Moscow State Institute of Culture. The article quite accurately formulates the main scientific areas of socio-cultural activities, which Viktor Mikhailovich worked on, gives ideas about the forms and methods of his teaching practice.