International Scientific Conference “Mastering of the North: From the Past to the Future”

  Leading researcher, D.Sc. in History Boris Nikolaevich Kovalev was granted Yaroslav the Wise medal of the First Class (the highest distinction of Novgorod State University). The ceremony took place at the “Antonovo” concert hall.   Friends and colleagues cordially congratulate Boris Nikolaevich with the award.  

On June 18, 2019 at 2.00 p.m. at the Conference hall (room 23) of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (SPbIH of the RAS) will begin the International Scientific Conference “North-East Asia and Russia in the Second Half of the 19th and in the 20th centuries”. The conference agenda includes reports of scholars…

The publishing house of Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University issued publication composed by G.M. Kovalenko “The town of “Hanseatic memories”. Novgorod in the view of German travelers of the 17th-19th centuries”. Hanseatic background of Novgorod is a part of its myth. This book presents the reader with the descriptions of Novgorod from the writings…

The memoirs of N.N. Pokrovskii “Last at Mariinsky palace: the memoirs of the Minister for Foreign Affairs” edited by S.V. Kulikov and D.N. Shilov have been published in the “Russia in memoirs” book series. The reader is presented the memoirs compiled not by a statesman but by a “scientist at power” who impartially verified party…