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.

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