Associate Professor of IAAS MSU Dr. O.V. Novakova brightly told about A.A. Guber, an outstanding Soviet scientist and orientalist, Academician and her first teacher in the Oriental studies. His work explores the most important problems of the new and recent history, economy and policy of the East, the general questions of the national liberation movement, the various aspects of international relations and colonial policy of the European metropolises. He made a significant contribution to the study of Vietnam. Novakova's article is devoted to this subject.