On October 9, 2019 at St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya ul., 7) with the support from the European University in St. Petersburg and the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University (as the session of the seminar “History of the Soviet era”) there took place a scientific conference “An ordinary person in extraordinary times”, dedicated to the memory of the famous Russian historian, leading researcher of St. Petersburg Institute of the RAS, Doctor of Historical Sciences S.V. Yarov, who passed away in 2015.
The conference program consisted of two parts: scientific and memorial. The first will present reports on the topics that S.V. Yarov was interested in throughout his entire scientific life, such as the “human dimension” of the Revolution, the Civil War, New Economic Policy and the blockade; in the second, the memoirs of colleagues and students were presented.
Conference agenda (in Russian)
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