The second volume of this book series contains texts of interviews with 10 well-known Russian Sinologists of the older generation, recorded in 2011-2015. These interviews were part of the international project "Chinese Studies - Oral History," covering already 25 countries and regions, including Russia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Vietnam, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, China, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Singapore, USA, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, Japan. Interview texts are published on the Internet and scientific periodicals, broadcast on radio and are already published in print in Russia, India, China, Taiwan and Japan. The interview presents in detail the professional activities and fates of Russian Chinese scholars: their biographies, studies and careers, scientific research, memories of teachers, colleagues and students, views on China, the history of domestic and world Chinese studies, Russian-Chinese relations, etc. In their totality, the published records of "oral history" constitute a unique, unexpected and largely non-canonical image of domestic Chinese studies at various stages and fractures of its development in the 20th-21st centuries.