All-Russian project «Alexander Nevsky: The Great Northern Route»

On November 1, 2015 is the 80-year anniversary of outstanding historian, a specialist in Byzantine history, corresponding member of the RAS, D. Sc. in History and a remarkable person Igor Pavlovich Medvedev. He is a symbol of both Byzantine history studies and the destiny of Saint Petersburg institute of History, where he has been working…

  Post-graduate student of the Department of the Contemporary History of Russia Vyacheslav Albertovich Mosunov was granted “Marshal of the USSR Kirill Meretskov” literature award for year 2019. The award ceremony took place on May 29, 2019 at Lenigrad region universal scientific library with the support from Committee on Culture of the Leningrad region.

  The collection of documents “Stenogrammy zasedanij ispolkoma Leningradskogo gorodskogo Soveta. Zapisi obsuzhdenij, zamechanij k proektam, reshenija nojabr’ 1941—dekabr’ 1942 gg.” has been issued by “Art-Express” publishers (ISBN 978-5-4391-0341-6). Publication of the materials from the Central State Archive of Saint Petersburg is the first one of this kind. The stenographs of speeches of Soviet leaders…

Dear colleagues! The Presidential Library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences invite to participate in the scientific conference “The book culture of the Muscovite Rus’ of 15th-17th cc.” [“Knizhnaya kul’tura Moskovskoi Rusi XV-XVII vv.”]. The conference is to be held on…

On November 25, 2015 the results of the 8th Public contest “Topical science” (Aktualnaya nauka) conducted in commemoration of O.N. Ken were summed up. The Polish Institute in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and the Institute of History and Political Science of the University of Białystok announce the completion of…

  In popular science series “Afoot into history” an encyclopedia for children “We live in year 1917” (“My zhivem v 1917 godu”; ISBN 978-5-905474-70-5) composed by P.G. Rogozny has been published. The book presents the main events of the Russian history of that period along with the description of political parties and the most important characters….