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Session of the Seminar on History of Post-war Soviet Society
On October 17, 2016 regular session of the Seminar on history of post-war soviet society (period of 1945-1965) took place. This seminar works at Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (SPbIH of the RAS) and ensures collaboration of scholars, employees of museums and archives, professors, tutors and teachers along with post-graduates. The report…
Announcement of the Archive
Dear visitors! The reading hall of Scientific and historical archive of SPbIH RAS will be closed since July 4 till September 6, 2016.

The international scientific conference “The Great Reformer of Russia: to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky (1772-1839)
St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to take part in the International Scientific Conference “The Great Reformer of Russia: on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky (1772 – 1839)”. The conference aims to a comprehensive study of state activity and the reformist heritage of the largest representative of the Russian administrative elite of the 19th century – M. M. Speransky, an analysis of his contribution to the process of modernization of imperial Russia, the development of its state and public institutions.
The 9th International Symposium on American studies “The History of America: man, nations, cultures”
The Russian Association for Anthropological American Studies, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS on June 24-25, 2020 carried out the 9th International Symposium on American studies “The History of America: man, nations, cultures”. Due to limitations implied because of COVID-19 it was held…
Smirnov Nikolai Nikolaevich
(born April 6, 1952 in Dushanbe) 1970—1976 — Leningrad State University, Faculty of History. 1975—1977 — senior research fellow, State Museum of History of Leningrad. 11.1977—11.1980 — post-graduate student, Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 12.1980— till nowadays — Saint Petersburg Institute of…