Хотя наши интересы пересекались довольно часто, работать вместе нам не приходилось. Наше деловое сотрудничество сводилось к тому, что мы были членами одного дачного кооператива и жили по соседству. Будучи председателем этого кооператива, я звал преподавателей Института строить там загородные дома. Вечерами мы собирались у камина и обменивались впечатлениями от прожитого дня. С нами была и супруга Сергея Николаевича – Ася Николаевна, заботливая и поистине любящая и любимая жена. Сергея Николаевича мы называли Сережей. Он был очень воспитанным и деликатным человеком. Его воспитанность была не нахватанная, а врожденная. Человек с глубокими знаниями. Он умел радоваться жизни и привносил радость в жизнь сам.
Александр Иосифович Медовой, кандидат экономических наук, профессор кафедры мировой экономики МГИМО МИД России
Gustaf Möller. Some Recollections of Contacts with Professor Sergei Lebedev
1. Introduction
The first time I met Professor Sergei Lebedev was at a meeting of the Working Group preparing the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. His name had, however, become well-known to me already about a decade before UNCITRAL entrusted its Working Group on International Contract Practices with the mandate to prepare a draft Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (Model Law). This was due to the fact that the civil procedure in general and in particular commercial arbitration had for a long time been one of my main interests. It goes without saying that nobody who is sincerely interested in international commercial arbitration could have avoided coming across the name Sergei Lebedev, since he was already in the Soviet-era probably the internationally best known Russian expert in international commercial arbitration. He had written extensively on the subject also in English. For me as a lawyer from a country with a long common border with Russia of course Russian law, as well as an authoritative Russian view, on international commercial arbitration was of particular interest.
2. Working with professor Lebedev in UNCITRAL
When I had been appointed as a representative of Finland to participate in the work on the Model Law, I was looking forward to working with some of the foremost experts in international commercial arbitration, among those Professor Lebedev. He did, however, not attend the first meetings of the working group but he played later a very active and constructive role in particular at UNCITRAL’s 18