Institute

  On May 11-12, 2017 Saint Petersburg Institute of History, the State Museum of Political History of Russia and North-West branch of the Scientific Council of the RAS on the history of social reforms, movements and revolutions are carrying out International Scientific and Practical Conference “Revolution of 1917 in Russia: event and conceptions, consequences and…

“Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie” publishing house issued a new book by D.Sc. in History, professor B.I. Kolonitskii “Tovarisch Kerenskii”: antimonarchical revolution and formation of the cult of “the leader of the people” (March-June 1917)” («Tovarishch Kerenskiy»: antimonarkhicheskaya revolyutsiya i formirovanie kul’ta «vozhdya naroda» (mart — iyun’ 1917 goda)); ISBN 978-5-4448-0638-8. In his pioneering study the author demonstrates…

  On April 26, 2017 at the Humanitarian Institute of the Novgorod State University All-Russian Scientific Conference “Memory of the Great Patriotic War in everyday life of the youth in 21st century”. It was organized by Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University, Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University and…

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS in cooperation with the Institute of History of SPbSU welcomed everyone to session of the Seminar on Old Russian history that have taken place at 4.00 p.m. on April 27, 2017 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)) hosted by V.G. Vovina and A.V. Sirenov. This…

  The Polish Institute in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and the Institute of History and Political Science University of Białystok announce the 10th Open Contest “Topical science (Soviet Union, Poland and other states of Central and Eastern Europe in the world policy of the 20th century)” (Aktualnaya nauka) conducted…

  On April 18, 2017 at the session of Academic Council the director of the Library of the RAS I.M. Belyaeva delivered a report “The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences nowadays”. She outlined the modern tasks of the library; sketched its problems and difficulties. Then the speaker answered multiple questions. Participants of this session…

  The publishing house of the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve issued the next book in the series “Novgorod deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Empire” “Vladimir Miliutin. Apologist of technical education in Russia. The deputy of the Fourth Duma” (“Vladimir Miliutin. Apologet tehnicheskogo obrazovania v Rossii. Deputat Chetvertoi Dumy”) written by B.N. Kovaliov (Novgorod th…

  On April 13, 2017 Yurii Georgievich Alekseev, outstanding scholar, great specialist in Russian Medieval history, D.Sc. in History, professor of Saint Petersburg State University has died. Many years Yurii Georgievich worked in Saint Petersburg Institute of History. Burial service and funeral has took place on April 17. He was buried at Smolonskoye cemetery.

  On April 12, 2017 at the Academics’ House named after Maxim Gorkii (Palace embankment, 26) the conference of scholars-beginners “Young scholars of the 21st century” took place. This event engages pupils and students of other secondary education institutions of Saint Petersburg and has been carried out for 21st time in a row by the…

Saint Petersburg Institute of History announces that entire archive of all the issues of the Proceedings of SPbII RAN (LOII) since 1959 till 2016 has been digitized and is available at the institute’s website. It will be replenished with every new issue.