Dear visitors!

The reading hall of Scientific and historical archive of SPbIH RAS will be closed since July 4 till September 6, 2016.

Friends and colleagues congratulate leading researcher, Doctor of Sciences in History Zoya Vasilievna Dmitrieva. Well-recognized specialist in economic history of Russia, source studies and archaeography Zoya Vasilievna Dmitrieva, being a disciple of Aleksandr Lvovich Shapiro, preserves the best features of Petersburg school of historical studies. Her scientific works, including seven monographs, fundamental publications of administrative documents of monasteries and school-books are well-known both in Russia and abroad.
At this day we express to you, Zoya Vasilievna, our admiration and gratitude for your participation in the institute’s activities.

The West European section of the Archaeographic Commission of the RAS and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcome everyone to the sessions of the 6th O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya Memorial Scientific Readings. The will take place on June 24, 2016 at 10.30 in Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; conference hall).

Dear colleagues!
On June 24, 2016 there was the first session scientific seminar “Russia in 19^th – beginning of 20^th century: state and society” that will be conducted by the department of Modern History of Russia of SPbIH RAS.
The first session was combined with round-table meeting timed to 220-year anniversary of emperor Nicholas I.

On the occasion of 85-year anniversary of academician B.V. Ananich Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Institute of Russian History of the RAS, Scientific Council of the RAS on Problems of Russian and World Economic History, Joint Scientific Council on Social Science and the Humanities of Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the RAS on June 20-21, 2016 carried out International scientific conference “Russia and the world at the end of the 19^th–first half of the 20^th century”.

On June, 20 the conference was held at Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the RAS (Universitetskaya emb., 5) and on June, 21 it took place at Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7).

Forty five reports by leading scholars from the Great Britain, the US, Finland, Germany and scientific institutions of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Omsk, Novgorod, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk have been delivered throughout the conference sessions.

At Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS small exhibition of scientific works and photographs of B.V. Ananich has been opened.

Nina Ivanovna Ananich has prepared a collection of memoirs “Boris Vasilievich Ananich. How we remember him” (“Boris Vasilievich Ananich. Kakim my yego pomnim”).

European University in Saint Petersburg and Saint Petersburg Institute of History on June 15-16 carried out International conference “Topical questions of the history of the Leningrad blockade” timed to 100-year anniversary of well-known Russian historian Valentin Mikhailovich Kovalchuk. The exhibition of scientific works and personal documents of V.M. Kovalchuk was open during the conference sessions.

On June 2, 2016 at the Conference-hall of Museum of fine arts of the Novgorod museum-reserve the presentation of book “Occupation. Resistance. Retribution. Nazi regime in the Novgorod land” (“Okkupatsiya. Soprotivlenie. Vozmezdie. Natsistskii regim na Novgorodskoy zemle”) written by D.Yu. Astashkin, B.N. Kovalev and S.V. Kulik took place. This events was supported by the Novgorod branch of the Russian historic society.

The book consists of three parts, each one deals with certain period and aspect of the history of Novgorod region. The authors aspired to step aside from purely scholarly style and make the book interesting for different groups of readers from school pupils to historians.