Vladimir Petrukhin (full name: Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin, ; born on July 25, 1950, in
Pushkino, Moscow Oblast
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Altai Krai
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,
Soviet Union
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) is a Russian
historian
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,
archaeologist
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and
ethnographer
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,
Doctor
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of Historical Sciences (since 1994), chief
research fellow
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of the Medieval Section in the Institute of Slavic Studies in the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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,Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin : Biobibliography / Russian State University for the Humanities; L. Prostovolosova, I. Savelyeva, with the assistance of A. Kurenkova; introductory article by A. Chernetsov. Moscow : RSUH, 2012 – 80 p. (Series: Scientist of RSUH). (). professor of
Higher School of Economics
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Pushkino, Moscow Oblast
Pushkino () is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia.
Altai Krai
As of 2010, one rural locality in Altai Krai bears this name:
*Pushkino, Altai Krai, a settlement in Rubtsovsky Selsoviet of Rub ...
.
* 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
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.
* 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
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thesis ''The Funeral Cult of Pagan Scandinavia'' (prof. Daniil Avdusin was a doctoral advisor); academic degree of
Candidate
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of Historical Sciences 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
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of Institute of
Slavic Studies
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(until 1995 it was Institute of Slavic and
Balkan
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Studies) of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
* 1994 – defended a
doctoral
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thesis ''The Problems of Ethnic and Cultural History of Slavs and Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries'' () in Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies; academic degree of
Doctor
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Modern Period
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(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) in History and Archives Institute in the
Russian State University for the Humanities
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.
* 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
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.
Vladimir Petrukhin was awarded Diploma of
Open Society Institute
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(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
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; Likhachov Prize (2015) for monograph ''Rus in the 9th–10th Centuries. From
Varangians
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medieval
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history
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,
archaeology
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and
culture
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(
Slavs
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,
Scandinavians
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,
Khazars
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ethnography
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of
North
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and
East Europe
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(
Slavs
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,
Jews
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,
Finno-Ugric peoples
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). The research works is characterized by complex approach and a use of all sources. Vladimir Petrukhin created new conception of early
Russian
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*A citizen of Russia
*Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
*''The Russians'', a b ...
history, in which
geopolitics
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,
ethnic
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and cultural history were key points (monographs: ''The Beginning of Ethnic and Cultural History of Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries'', , 1995; ''Rus in the 9th–10th Centuries. From Varangians Invitation to the Сhoice of Faith'', , 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
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.
* Member of editorial boards of some journals: "Bulletin of Jewish University" (
Moscow
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–
Jerusalem
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, since 1994), "Slavic Studies" ("Slavyanovedeniye", Moscow, since 1994), "Living Antiquity" ("Zhivaya Starina", Moscow, since 1995), "Problems of Art" ("Problemi na Izkustvoto",
Sofia
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,
Bulgaria
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, since 2004), almanac "Parallels" (since 2002), "Khazarian Almanac" (
Kharkiv
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,
Ukraine
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, 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
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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
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), 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.
Main publications
Monographs, co-authorship and popular scientific publications
* The Beginning of Ethnic and Cultural History of Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries /
Russian Academy of Sciences
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, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies.
Smolensk
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First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It has been a regional capital for most of ...
;
Moscow
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, 1995. 317 p. ().
* From Genesis to Exodus : the Biblical Subjects in Jewish and Slavic
Folk Culture
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: Collected Articles / Sefer. Academic series; editor-in-chief is Vladimir Petrukhin. Moscow, 1998. Issue 2. ().
* Old Rus. Moscow, 2000. 48 p. (Series: How and Why Wonder Books). ().
* Slavs : Textbook for Additional Education. Moscow, 2002. 112 p. ().
* The Origins of Russia : Historical Stories / V. Petrukhin, A. Toroptsev. Moscow, 2002. 132 p. (, А. Торопцев. – М. : Росмэн, 2002. – 132 с.
* Khazarian and Hebrew Documents of the 10th Century : Translation from Russian into English /
Norman Golb
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,
Omeljan Pritsak
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; scientific ed., afterword and commentaries by Vladimir Petrukhin; Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies. 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Jerusalem; Moscow, 2003. 239 p. (Series: Library of
Russian Jewish Congress
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It unites som ...
). First edition : Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century / N. Golb a. O. Pritsak. Ithaca; London : Cornell Univ. Press, 1982. ().
* Essays on the History of the Peoples of Russia in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : Manual for Humanitarian Faculties / Vladimir Petrukhin, Dmitry Rayevsky. Moscow, 2004. 415 p. ).
* Myths of Finno-Ugric Peoples. Moscow, 2005. 463 p. ().
*
Migration Period
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/ Vladimir Petrukhin and others. Moscow, 2005. 179 p. ().
* Old Rus. From 9th Century to 1263. Moscow, 2005. 190 p. ().
*
Origin Myth
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s. Moscow, 2005. 464 p. ().
* Before the Invasion. Moscow, 2005. 179 p. ().
* Christianization of Rus : from Paganism to Christianity. Moscow, 2006. 222 p. ().
* Old Rus. Moscow, 2008. 95 p. ().
* The "Jewish Myth" in the Slavic Culture / Olga Belova, Vladimir Petrukhin. Moscow; Jerusalem, 2008. 568 p. ().
* Folklore and Book-Learning : Myth and Historical Reality / Olga Belova, Vladimir Petrukhin; Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies. Moscow, 2008. 262 p. ().
*
Underworld
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...
: Myths of Different Peoples.
Yekaterinburg
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Varangians
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Сhoice of Faith / 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Moscow, 2014. 464 p. ().
Some articles
* Melnikova, Elena. Petrukhin, Vladimir. "The Legend of the Varangians Invitation" in Comparative Historical Perspective // 11th All- Union Conference on the Study of History, Economics, Literature and Language of the
Scandinavian Countries
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and
Finland
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/ ed. by Yury Andreev and others. – Moscow, 1989. – Issue 1. – P. 108–110. ().
* Древо жизни: Библейский образ и славянский фольклор // Живая старина. – 1997. – № 1. – С. 8–9.
* Дунайская предыстория славян и начальная Русь // Истоки русской культуры : Археология и лингвистика. – М., 1997. – С. 139–144.
* «От тех варяг прозвася…» // Родина. – 1997. – № 10. – С. 12–16.
* Походы Руси на Царьград: К проблеме достоверности летописи // Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье: Материалы конф. … – М., 1997. – С. 65–70.
* Мельникова Е.А., Петрухин В.Я. Русь и чудь: К проблеме этнокультурных контактов Восточной Европы и Балтийского региона в 1 -м тыс. н. э. // Балтославянские исследования, 1988–1996. – М., 1997. – С. 40–51.
* Большие курганы Руси и Северной Европы: К проблеме этнокультурных связей в раннесредневековый период // Историческая археология: традиции и перспективы. – М., 1998. – С. 361–369.
* К дохристианским истокам древнерусского княжеского культа // ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΝ: К 70-летию В. Н. Топорова. – М., 1998. – С. 882–892.
* Выбор веры: Летописный сюжет и исторические реалии // Древнерусская культура в мировом контексте: археология и междисциплинарные исследования: Материалы конф. … – М., 1999. – С. 73–85.
* Древняя Русь: Народ. Князья. Религия // Из истории русской культуры. – М.: Яз. рус. культуры, 2000. – Т. I: (Древняя Русь). – С. 13–410. – (Язык. Семиотика. Культура).
* «Боги и бесы» русского средневековья: род, рожаницы и проблема древнерусского двоеверия // Славянский и балканский фольклор. Народная демонология / Отв. ред. С.М. Толстая. – М., 2000. – С. 314–343.
«Русский каганат», скандинавы и Южная Русь: средневековая традиция и стереотипы современной историографии // Древнейшиие государства Восточной Европы. 1999 г. Восточная и Северная Европа в средневековье / Отв. ред. Г.В. Глазырина; Отв. секретарь С.Л. Никольский; тв. ред. сер. Е.А. Мельникова – М.: Вост. лит., 2001 – С. 127–142. (Памяти Т. С. Нунена).
Легенда о призвании варягов и балтийский регион // Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики. – 2008. – № 2 (32). – С. 41–46.
on website of Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen.
Higher School of Economics
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