Vladimir Petrukhin
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Vladimir Petrukhin | |
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| Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Петру́хин | |
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| Born | July 25, 1950 |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Education | History, Archaeology |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Awards | Diploma of Open Society Institute (1996) Medal of Slavic Fund of Russia (2010). Likhachov Prize (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History, Archaeology and Culture of Russia in Middle Ages (Slavs, Scandinavians, Khazars), Old Rus, Ethnography of North and East Europe (Slavs, Jews, Finno-Ugric peoples) |
| Institutions | Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Higher School of Economics |
| Thesis | The Problems of Ethnic and Cultural History of Slavs and Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries (Russian: Проблемы этнокультурной истории славян и Руси в IX-XI вв.) (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniil Avdusin |
Vladimir Petrukhin (full name: Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin, Russian: Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Петру́хин; born on July 25, 1950, in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian historian, archaeologist and ethnographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences (since 1994), chief research fellow[1] of the Medieval Section in the Institute of Slavic Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences,[2] professor of Higher School of Economics.[3]
Vladimir Petrukhin was born on July 25, 1950, in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast.
- 1957–1965 – First High School in Pushkino.
- 1962–1967 – Young Archaeologists Club in Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow.
- 1967 – graduated from Fifth High School in Pushkino with a silver medal.
- 1967–1972 – student of Faculty of History of the Moscow State University.
- 1972 – graduated from the Faculty of History, qualification as historian, teacher of history and social science with knowledge of foreign language.
- 1972–1975 – postgraduate student at the Department of Archeology of Faculty of History (prof. Daniil Avdusin was a doctoral advisor).
- 1975 – defended a candidate thesis The Funeral Cult of Pagan Scandinavia (prof. Daniil Avdusin was a doctoral advisor); academic degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences[6] was conferred.
- 1975–1992 – superior editor, scientific editor, senior scientific editor in the Editorial Office of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Editorial Office of World History of publisher "Soviet Encyclopedia".
- 1991–2004 – professor of Dubnov Higher School for the Humanities (until 2003 it was Jewish University in Moscow).
- since 1992 – superior, senior, chief research fellow of Institute of Slavic Studies (until 1995 it was Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- 1994 – defended a doctoral thesis The Problems of Ethnic and Cultural History of Slavs and Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries (Russian: Проблемы этнокультурной истории славян и Руси в IX-XI вв.) in Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies; academic degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences[7] was conferred.
- since 1992 – member of the academic council of the Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer".
- 1997–2015 professor of the Department of Russian History of Middle Ages and Modern Period[8] (until 2007 – the Department of Russian History of Ancient World and Middle Ages, until 2013 – the Department of Russian History of Middle Ages and Early Modern Period[9]) in History and Archives Institute in the Russian State University for the Humanities.
- 2004 – Ministry of Education of Russia conferred to Vladimir Petrukhin the academic status of professor in the Department of Russian History of Ancient World and Middle Ages.
- since 2008 – professor of School of History in Faculty of Humanities in Higher School of Economics.[3]
Vladimir Petrukhin was awarded Diploma of Open Society Institute (1996) for the victory in the contest "New Books on Social Sciences and Humanities for High School"; Medal of Slavic Fund of Russia (2010) for the great contribution to the preservation and development of the heritage of Cyril and Methodius; Likhachov Prize (2015) for monograph Rus in the 9th–10th Centuries. From Varangians Invitation to the Сhoice of Faith (Russian: Русь в IX-X веках. От призвания варягов до выбора веры).[10]
Researches
Vladimir Petrukhin researches Russian medieval history, archaeology and culture (Slavs, Scandinavians, Khazars) (including Old Rus), ethnography of North and East Europe (Slavs, Jews, Finno-Ugric peoples). The research works is characterized by complex approach and a use of all sources. Vladimir Petrukhin created new conception of early Russian history, in which geopolitics, ethnic and cultural history were key points (monographs: The Beginning of Ethnic and Cultural History of Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries, Russian: Начало этнокультурной истории Руси IX-XI веков, 1995; Rus in the 9th–10th Centuries. From Varangians Invitation to the Сhoice of Faith, Russian: Русь в IX-X веках. От призвания варягов до выбора веры, 2013, 2014).
- Vladimir Petrukhin takes part in many Russian and international historical, archaeological and ethnographic projects, including interdisciplinary expeditions to study of Slavic and Jewish history and culture; he also is a coordinator of projects for preservation and study of the Khazarian and Jewish historical and cultural artefacts in Dubnov Higher School for the Humanities ("Khazarian Project") of the Russian Jewish Congress.
- Member of editorial boards of some journals: "Bulletin of Jewish University" (Moscow – Jerusalem, since 1994), "Slavic Studies" ("Slavyanovedeniye", Moscow, since 1994), "Living Antiquity" ("Zhivaya Starina", Moscow, since 1995), "Problems of Art" ("Problemi na Izkustvoto", Sofia, Bulgaria, since 2004), almanac "Parallels" (since 2002), "Khazarian Almanac" (Kharkiv, Ukraine, since 2002); many collected articles and other scientific publications.
- Member of organizing committees of several Russian and international conferences on Russian and Khazarian history and archaeology and also Eastern European ethnography.
- In Russian State University for the Humanities since 1997, Vladimir Petrukhin gives courses of lectures on the early history of Russia, special courses on religious antiquities, ethnogenesis and early history of the Slavs; he manages an archaeological field practice of students. In Dubnov Higher School for the Humanities, he gives courses of lectures on the history of Russia in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, on introduction to archaeology, he also manages an archaeological field practice of students. In the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Moscow State University), he gives a special course "Khazars and the Early History of the Jews in Eastern Europe".
- Vladimir Petrukhin is an author of more than 500 research works, published from 1973 to the present time, among them he took part in the work for the "Slavic Antiquities. Ethnolinguistic Dictionary" (ed. by Nikita Tolstoy); an author of several popular scientific books.
