On October 27, 2025, lecturers and students of the Faculty of National Culture of Comrat State University — Dr., lecturer of the Department of Pedagogy and History, Liudmila Ibrișim, Dr., lecturer of the Department of Gagauz Philology and History, Güllü Karanfil, as well as students of groups GR-25 and NDP-24 — took part in a public lecture titled “Trust and Interethnic Tolerance in the Works of Academician Mihail Guboglo.”
The event took place at the Maria Marunevici Scientific Research Center of Gagauzia.
The lecture was prepared and delivered by Dr. of History, lecturer of the Department of Gagauz Philology and History, Petr Paşalı.
On October 25, Mihail Guboglo would have turned 87. Mihail Guboglo (1938–2019) was a native of Gagauzia — a Soviet, Moldovan, and Russian historian and ethnologist, Honored Scientist, Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Honorary Doctor of Comrat State University, Honorary Citizen of Gagauzia and of the city of Ceadîr-Lunga, holder of the State Award of the Republic of Moldova “Order of Honor,” and author of more than 500 scientific works and 30 monographs.
The contribution of Mihail Guboglo to the formation and development of Gagauz studies is invaluable. He was one of the scholars who laid the scientific foundations for the systematic study of the Gagauz as an ethnic group — their historical path, ethnocultural features, linguistic identity, and social transformations. Of particular importance is the fundamental volume “The Gagauz,” edited by Mihail Guboglo within the academic series “Peoples and Cultures.”
This work became the first comprehensive summary of knowledge about the Gagauz people, their history, language, traditional culture, daily life, folk art, and ethnic identity.
