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The 8th Nansen Readings
Information and cultural centre Russian Emigration, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and D.S. Likhachov fund on April 19-21, 2018 will organize in Saint Petersburg International Conference the 8th Nansen Readings “Centenary of the Foreign Russia”. Programme of the Conference
Session of the Seminar on Old Russian history
Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS in cooperation with the Institute of History of SPbSU welcome everyone to session of the Seminar on Old Russian history which is to take place at 4.00 p.m. on November 30, 2017 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)) hosted by V.G. Vovina and A.V. Sirenov. This…
Timed to 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
Ahead of 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences publishes on its website the new historical source – the memoirs of Petersburg architect Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov about his work on “Leningrad Hero City Obelisk”, opened in 1985…
New book
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On the occasion of centennary of Yu.V. Knorozov (1922–1999)
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