On June 9, 2020 the session of the Scientific Council will take place in online format. The second part of it will deal with 160-year anniversary of Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs.

There will be delivered reports by D.Sc. in History B.S. Kaganovich “I.M. Grevs as a Historian and a Person” and by D.Sc. in History, professor of the Institute of History of SPbSU O.B. Vahromeeva “Study of Literature in Creative Work of Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs”.

The report of D.Sc. in History B.S. Kaganovich (in Russian). 

On May 29 Boris Fedorovich Egorov had his 94th anniversary.

We, his colleauges cordially congratulate him with his birthday and wish him many happy returns of the day, stay healthy and further succeed in his research and creative work!

On the eve of the Victory Day collective of our Institute suffered an irretrievable loss.

On May 8, 2020 Viktor Nikolaevich Pleshkov – D.Sc. in History, scientific adviser of the Department of General History, outstanding specialist in American history, who for 14 years was the head of Saint Petersburg Institute of the RAS has died from heart attack.

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 at Vosstaniya square.

Brief memoirs, written in unusual “telegraph” style and richely illustrated by sketches and photographs ща the monument, outline the history of its creation and opening, include authors view on the events of ancient and recent history of Russia, and undoubtedly will attract the attention of the visitors of the website.

On May 12, 2020 at 14.30 expanded session of the Scientific Council of SPbIH of the RAS timed to 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be held. The session will be carried online with the reports delivered by:

Karpenko Irina Aleksandrovna, Cand.Sc. in History, academic secretary of the State Museum of History of Saint Petersburg «The First Victory Day. May 9, 1945 in Leningrad». The report (in Russian).

Moshnik Yulia Igorevna, Cand.Sc. in History, senior researcher of «Vyborg Integrated Museum-Reserve» «Finnish Press of 1941‒1944 about the Destiny of Sieged Leningrad and its Citizens». The report (in Russian).

Kantor Yulia Zorahovna, D.Sc. in History, Chief Researcher of SPbIH of the RAS  ««the Ways of Disappearance» of Artistic Valuables from the Occupied Regions of Russia during the Great Patriotic War (by the example of North-Western Russia)». The report (in Russian)..

Kovalev Boris Nikolaevich, D.Sc. in History, leading researcher of SPbIH of the RAS «Novgorod under hostile occupation in 1941‒1944». The report (in Russian).

Due to difficult epidemiological situation all the scientific events planned to be carried out in the institute in April and May 2020 are postponed.

The dates of its possible conducting will be announced later.

“Piter” publishers issued new book by D.Sc. in History B.N. Kovalev “Ispanskaya divizia – soyuznik Tretiegi reiha. 1941-1945 gg” [“The Spanish Division – the ally of the Third Reich. 1941-1945”]. ISBN: 978-5-4461-1637-9

During the Great Petriotic War hudreds of thousands of soldiers and officers from European countries-allies of Hitler Germany fought against the Soviet Union. Aming them were the ones from Spain, the country which officially didn’t participate in the war. The Spanish “Blue Вivision” got to the Eastern fron in October 1941, till August 1942 stayed in Novgorod and its neighbourhood, wherefrom was moved near Leningrad and fought in bloody battles against the Red Army. It was the strong resistance of the Blue Division that prevented the raising of the blockade in the winter of 1943.

The book is based on numerous archival sources, diaries and memoirs of Spanish volunteers, Soviet soldiers and inhabitants of occupied areas as well as on studies of foreign scholars. The book is aimed at wide spectre of readers.