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

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…

Saint Petersburg Institute of History has suffered a hard and unexpected loss. On September 14, 2015 we got information that one of the most outstanding scholars of SPbIH Sergey Viktorovich Yarov suddenly died in the age of 56 years. Sergey Viktorovich had been working in the Institute since 1988. Several scientific works recognized by both…

Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University granted the leading researcher of SPBIH of the RAS, Cand. Sc. in History Gennadii Mihailovich Kovalenko medal of Yaroslav the Wise 3rd class for great personal contribution to study and preservation of historical and cultural heritage of Novgorod region. Friends and colleagues warmly congratulate Gennadii Mihailovich and wish him…

2016 June 20-21, 2016 – International scientific conference timed to 85-year anniversary of academician B.V. Ananich “Russia and the world at the end of the 19th–first half of the 20th century”. Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Institute of Russian history of the RAS, Scientific Council of the RAS on Problems of Russian and…

  “Kriga” publishing house issued new book “Scenes of Russian life. Capital and province of the first half of the 19th century in the view of foreigners. Diaries. Researches” (“Kartiny russkoi zhizni. Stolitsa i provincial pervoi poloviny XIX veka glazami inostrancev. Dnevniki. Issledovania”). The publication was prepared by G.M. Kovalenko and A.A. Kuznetsov. The book…