Vladimir Afanasyevich Makarenko (; 9 December 1933, in Moscow – 13 February 2008, in Moscow) was a Russian orientalist, linguist, lexicographer, and translator. Biography In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Suvorov Military School with honours and continued his education at the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU). In 1957–1964 after graduating from MGU, V. A. Makarenko used to work as an editor and later as the Chief-Editor at the State Publishers for National and Foreign Dictionaries (Moscow). He edited and published the ever first in Russia Tagalog–Russian Dictionary (1960), Russian–Tagalog Dictionary (1965) and some others. Later he compiled Malayalam–Russian Dictionary (1971, in cooperation with M. S. Andronov), Kannada–Russian Dictionary (1979, in cooperation with M. S. Andronov and M. A. Dashko) and several other dictionaries and phrasebooks which were warmly greeted by critics. In 1960–1964, V. A. Makarenko was doing PhD studies in linguistics at the Institute of Oriental Languages, MGU. In 1960 he initiated the teaching of Tagalog as second oriental language for students from Malay/Indonesian Department. Since 1964 V. A. Makarenko has been teaching Tagalog and been giving lectures on theoretical linguistics (introduction to special philology, theoretical grammar, historical linguistics), conducted special seminars on Austronesian linguistics. In 1966 he got PhD with thesis "Morphological Structure in Modern Tagalog". In 1970 he became Ass. Professor. He contributed much in creating programmes (curriculum) and textbooks. He used to be a Scientific Secretary of "The Journal of Moscow University" (Orientalistics) since its foundation and a member of Editing Boards of some other publications, including "Vostochnaya Kollektsiya". Since 1985 when Tagalog Department was temporarily closed V. A. Makarenko began working at the Institute of Scientific Information, Russian Academy of Science (INION RAN). There he became the Head of the Asian-African Department in charge of the linguistics bibliography and the editor of bibliography Index "Linguistics". In 1997 the Tagalog Department at MGU has been restored and V. A. Makarenko again began teaching Tagalog and Philippines literature there. He has been always active also in the field of linguistics researches both in his country and on international arena as well. He was a member of some important associations such as All-Russian Orientalistic Society, Nusantara Society, Russian Writers Union, Russian Journalists Union, a life member of Linguistic Society of the Philippines. He used to be a visiting Professor of La Salle University. He participated in many international conferences, among them International Conference on