The session of the Academic council

  Dear colleagues! St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to take part in a meeting of the scientific seminar “History of the Soviet era” and discuss such problem as “Leaders of besieged Leningrad”.. The meeting is supposed to discuss the current state of the problem, the folding and…

The first stage of the project “Video Chronicle “The Epoch in the Eyes of Contemporaries” has been completed. This project is carried out by St. Petersburg Non-government Organization of Veterans of War, Labor, Armed Forces and Law Enforcements with the participation of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and autonomous…

  GALART Publishing House has published a new book by. A. I. Rupasov “Diplomatic Profiles” ISBN 978-5-98747-050-3 The book deals with the biography issues of some of the Soviet and European diplomats who have passed away long ago and who played very different roles in the posts they happened to occupy. Soviet plenipotentiaries I.L. Lorentz,…

International scientific conference “Historical memory of Russia and the Decembrists. 1825-2015” timed to 190-year anniversary of the uprising which took place in the Senate square on December 14, 1825 has become the only remarkable international scientific forum on issues concerning the history of the Decembrist movement. Its organizers struggled to attract to participation all well-known…

  “Nestor-Istoria” publishing house issued regular volume (2 (18)) of the Proceedings of SPbII RAN “Saint Petersburg Institute of History in the documents of the 19th-20th centuries” (“Sankt-Peterburgskii institut istorii v dokumentah XIX-XX vekov”). This book is devoted to 80-year anniversary of the institute and consists of publications of its employees on the history of…