Elena Viktorovna Paducheva (26.09.1935 - 16.07.2019)
The first part of the article addresses the key moments in Elena Paducheva's biography that shaped her personality and fate: the dramatic lifestories of her parents and grandparents, her acquaintance with Andrey Zalizniak, being a student of Moscow University, and obstacles at the start of her work after graduation. The second part of the article is devoted to Paducheva's contribution to linguistics, in particular semantics of syntax, aspect and tense of the Russian verb, dynamic semantics, theory of reference, egocentric units of language and narratology. The novelty of her research is emphasized. The work of Paducheva and a group of colleagues she supervised for not less than thirty years in the project “Lexicograph” is given a detailed description.