On March 9, 2021 an expanded memorial session of the Academic Council of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held, timed to the 90th anniversary of birth of Doctor of History, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Vasilievich Ananich.

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(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…