Eugene Chelyshev

[1] In 1949, he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages of the Red Army (Eastern Division) and enrolled in post-graduate courses.

[1] After his discharge with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Chelyshev worked for over 30 years at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was the head of the Indian Philology department.

[5] At the same time, he became the director of the Department of Indian Languages, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1956–1975).

[10] He told about Vivekananda—[11] I think that Vivekananda's greatest service is the development in his teaching of the lofty ideals of humanism which incorporate the finest features of Indian culture....

In my studies of contemporary Indian literature, I have more than once had the opportunity to see what great influence the humanistic ideals of Vivekananda have exercised on the works of many writers.... [In] Vivekananda's humanism, we recognize that it possesses many features of active humanism manifested above all in a fervent desire to elevate man, to instill in him a sense of his own dignity, sense of responsibility for his own destiny and the destiny of all people, to make him strive for the ideals of good, truth and justice, to foster in man abhorrence for any suffering....