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Encyclopedia for children
In popular science series “Afoot into history” an encyclopedia for children “We live in year 1917” (“My zhivem v 1917 godu”; ISBN 978-5-905474-70-5) composed by P.G. Rogozny has been published. The book presents the main events of the Russian history of that period along with the description of political parties and the most important characters….
New textbook
Nestor Istoria publ. issued a book by A.V. Chirkova “Diplomacy of the Western European documents of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era” (“Zapadnoevropeiskaya diplomatika Srednih vekov I Rannego Novogo vremeni”) (ISBN 978-5-4469-1596-5). Presented textbook is the first complex survey of the West European diplomacy in Russian after more than a centenary from publication…
On the occasion of centennary of Yu.V. Knorozov (1922–1999)
As part of the program of scientific and anniversary events timed to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian ethnographer Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (1922–1999), the Mesoamerican Educational and Scientific Center named after. Yu.V. Knorozov of the Russian State University for the Humanities and the A.A. Fursenko Center for American Studies of St….
On the activity of the Scientific-Historical Archive
Since June 16, 2020 the Scientific-Historical Archive resumes execution of requests and making of digital copies of documents according to the demands presented by remote channels (postal letters and e-mail). The Reading Hall of the Archive will reopen for visitors from September 2020.
Old Russian town where the West and the East met – a new book on the history of non-confessional communities was presented in Novgorod
On June 8, 2022 in Novgorod Doctor of History Vadim Ibragimovich Musaev presented his new monograph “Different Christian communities in the North-West of Russia in the 1900s – 1930s”, in which the history of main non-Orthodox confessional communities of St. Petersburg/ Petrograd/ Leningrad and in general in the North-West on the basis of materials from…
Award winners
The award of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists for 2017 was granted to Cand. Sc. In History, research fellow of the Scientific and Historical Archive of the Institute Nikita Viktorovich Bashnin for his contribution to the research on relations between the state and the Orthodox church, developments of the monastery…

