Yury N. Stolyarov – a restless researcher

The article is devoted to Yury Nikolaevich Stolyarov, a prominent Russian scholar in the field of library science, documentation, book and computer studies. The author makes emphasis on Stolyarov’s widest expertise, from the library collection studies at the outset of his academic career, to the library science, etc. The author accentuates Stolyarov’s unique approaches and sharp polemics of his publications. In his articles, Stolyarov discussed the hottest problems in the librarianship, bibliology, documentology, informatics, and cultural studies. The author also refers to his literary research works, namely the articles “Why Pushkin didn’t become a librarian”, “What is Eugene Onegin about?”, “Taras Bulba by N. Gogol”, ‘Infernal Lermontov”, etc. He was also interested in the book theme in the religious literature. The author touches on the theme of his personal relations with Yury Stolyarov at different periods of their co-working.