The Faculty of History is one of the faculties of the

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. Established at 1934 on the base of the Historical-philological faculty of the university. The dean of the faculty was

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(1995–2018).

History

The first departments of the history, arts and archaeology of the

were established at 1804. In 1835, the Department of History was separated into the Department of Russian History and the Department of Foreign History. The department of Russian History was led by

Mikhail Pogodin Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (; ) was a Russian historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death of Nikolay Karamzin in 1826 and the rise of Sergey Solovyov in the 1850s. He is ...

, Sergei Solovyov,

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, the department of foreign history was led by

Timofey Granovsky Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky (; 9 March 1813 – 4 October 1855) was a founder of medieval studies in the Russian Empire. Granovsky was born in Oryol, Russia. He studied at the universities of Moscow and Berlin, where he was profoundly influenc ...

. At 1850 the historical-philological faculty was created. After the

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the Faculty of history and the Faculty of law were mixed into the Faculty of social sciences. At 1925 it was reorganized into a Faculty of Soviet Law and Ethnology. At the 1931 the Historical-philological faculty was transformed into . At 1934 the Faculties of history in

and in

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were restored.

Structure

* Department of Ancient Languages * Department of Ancient World History * Department of Archaeology * Department of Church History * Department of Ethnology * Department of Foreign Languages * Department of Historical Informatics * Department of History of Domestic Art * Department of History of Near Abroad Countries * Department of History of Social Movements and Political Parties * Department of History of Southern and Western Slavs * Department of Medieval History * Department of Modern and Contemporary History * Department of Russian History from the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th Century * Department of Russian History from the 20th to the 21st Centuries * Department of Russian History up to the Beginning of the 19th Century * Department of Source Studies * Department of World History of Arts

Notable faculty

Oleg Khlevniuk Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk (; born 7 July 1959 in Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian historian of the Soviet Union. Career He completed his Candidate of Sciences thesis on cultural change among Soviet urban workers between 1926–1939 at ...

* Leonid Milov *

Nikita Petrov Nikita Vasilyevich Petrov (, born 31 January 1957, Kiev) is a Russian historian. He works at ''Memorial,'' a Russian organization dedicated to studying Soviet political repression. Petrov specializes in Soviet security services. The book about ...

Boris Rybakov Boris Aleksandrovich Rybakov (; 3 June 1908, Moscow – 27 December 2001, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian. He was one of the main proponents of anti-Normanist vision of Russian history. He is the father of Indologis ...

* Arkadiĭ SidorovСИДОРОВ Аркадий Лаврович
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Valentin Yanin Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin (; 6 February 1929 – 2 February 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian ...

Anna Melyukova Anna Ivanovna Melyukova (; 14 December 1921 – 7 March 2004) was a Russian archaeologist and a pioneer in the field of Scythians, Scythian archaeology. At her alma mater, Moscow State University, she held the position of professor of archaeol ...

Notable alumni

Lyudmila Alexeyeva Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva (, ; 20 July 1927 – 8 December 2018) was a Russian historian and human-rights activist who was a founding member in 1976 of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group and one of the last Soviet dissidents active in post-S ...

, (1927–2018), Russian human rights activist *

Svetlana Aliluyeva Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she beca ...

, (1926–2011), the youngest child and the only daughter of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

Sergei Bodrov Jr. Sergei Sergeyevich Bodrov (; December 27, 1971 – September 20, 2002), also known as Sergei Bodrov Jr., was a Russian actor and screenwriter who had lead roles in the films ''Brother'', '' Prisoner of the Mountains'', ''East/West'' and ''Brother ...

, (1971–2002), Russian actor *

Olga Kabo Olga Igorevna Kabo (, born January 28, 1968) is a Soviet and Russian theatre actress, stuntwoman, and singer. Biography Was born in Moscow, the daughter of engineers Igor Yakovlevich and Ada Nikolayevna. From an early age she studied ballroom d ...

, (born 1968), Russian actress *

Yuri Knorozov Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (; 19 November 192230 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist. He is best known for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system of the Maya ci ...

, (1922–1999), Soviet linguist and ethnographer, who is known for his role in the decipherment of the

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* Victor Schnirelmann, (born 1949), Russian historian and ethnologist *

Nikolai Svanidze Nikolay Karlovich Svanidze (; 2 April 1955 – 11 September 2024) was a Russian television and radio host and member of the Public Chamber of Russia. Biography Nikolai Karlovich Svanidze was named after his paternal grandfather Nikolai Samsono ...

, (born 1955), Russian TV and radio host * Savva Yamshchikov, (1938–2009), Russian restorer *

(born 1929), leading Russian historian and archaeologist *

Konstantin Zatulin Konstantin Fyodorovich Zatulin (; born 7 September 1958) is a Russia, Russian politician, first deputy chairman of the committee of the State Duma for the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS and relations with Russian nationals abroad. He re ...

, (born 1958), Russian politician

References

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