Dear colleaugues!

In Russia, 2022 has been declared the Year of Folk Art and the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation. St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies and St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences are planning to hold a joint international scientific conference related to the ideas of maintaining interest in Jewish culture and traditions, and developing respect for national values.
The joint international scientific conference of St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies and St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences “History and intangible culture of the Jews of Russia and the world” will be held on April 24, 2022. Letter of information (in Russian)

Everyday life during occupation, oral testimony and previously taboo stories from the history of the Great Patriotic War were in the center of attention of the participants of the Russian-Belarusian round table “Unknown pages of the history of the Nazi occupation of the regions of the RSFSR and the BSSR”, which took place on October 21, 2021 and brought together researchers from various scientific, archival, educational institutions of the two countries. The organizer was St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the participation of Minsk State Linguistic University.

In three sections on the basis of historical sources the following sublects were discussed: the beginning of the occupation period, its ideological and economic basis, the organization of partisan resistance and reconnaissance and sabotage operations, the Holocaust and murders of residents in the occupied territories, the situation of prisoners of war and civilians in various areas, museum activities during the war, the fate of cultural heritage ​​and its keepers in war and post-war times.

The Western-European section of the Archaeographic Commission of the RAS and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS on October 22, 2021 conduct the 10^th Scientific Readings in commemoration of O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya. The conference sessions will be held in the Conference hall of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya ul. 7; room 23) and online. The conference starts at 10.00.

The programme of the Readings (in Russian)   Abstracts (in Russian)

Discussion of the new book by Cand. Sc. in History P.V. Krylov “Ne hodi tuda!” Taina gibeli gruppy Dyatlova i ugro-finskaya magiya” [“Don’t go there!” The mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group and the Finno-Ugric magic”], issued by the publishing house “Inkeri”(St. Petersburg, 2021), will take place within the framework of the popular science program of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Discussions in the House of NP Likhachev”. The discussion will be held online on October 7, 2021 at 4 p.m.