This list of Russian historians includes

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

s, as well as

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

paleographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dati ...

genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their Lineage (anthropology), lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family ...

s and other representatives of auxiliary historical disciplines from the

Russian Federation Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

, the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

, the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

and other predecessor states of Russia.

Alphabetical list

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* Valery Alekseyev (1929–1991), anthropologist, proposed ''

Homo rudolfensis ''Homo rudolfensis'' is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2 million years ago (mya). Because ''H. rudolfensis'' coexisted with several other hominins, it is debated what specimens can be confiden ...

'' * Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972), historian and archaeologist, founder of modern

Khazar The Khazars ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a nomadic Turkic people who, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, an ...

studies, excavated a great number of

Scythian The Scythians ( or ) or Scyths (, but note Scytho- () in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC fr ...

and Khazar

kurgan A kurgan is a type of tumulus (burial mound) constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into mu ...

s and settlements, including the fortress of Sarkel * Artemiy Artsikhovsky (1902–1978), archaeologist, discoverer of

birch bark document Birch bark manuscripts are documents written on pieces of the outer layer of birch bark, which was commonly used for writing before the mass production of paper. Evidence of birch bark for writing goes back many centuries and appears in various c ...

s in

Novgorod Veliky Novgorod ( ; , ; ), also known simply as Novgorod (), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the oldest cities in Russia, being first mentioned in the 9th century. The city lies along the V ...

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Vasily Bartold Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (; – 19 August 1930), who published in the West under his German baptismal name, Wilhelm Barthold, was a Russian orientalist who specialized in the history of Islam and the Turkic peoples ( Turkology). Biogra ...

(1869–1930), turkologist, the "

Gibbon Gibbons () are apes in the family Hylobatidae (). The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four extant genera and 20 species. Gibbons live in subtropical and tropical forests from eastern Bangladesh and Northeast Indi ...

Turkestan Turkestan,; ; ; ; also spelled Turkistan, is a historical region in Central Asia corresponding to the regions of Transoxiana and East Turkestan (Xinjiang). The region is located in the northwest of modern day China and to the northwest of its ...

", an archaeologist of

Samarcand Samarkand ( ; Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level ...

Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin Konstantin Nikolayevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (; – ) was a Russian historian. He was the head of the School of Historiography at the University of St. Petersburg (1864–85) and was elected into the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1890. In 1 ...

(1829–1897), 19th-century historian and

, founder of the

Bestuzhev Courses The Bestuzhev Courses () in Saint Petersburg were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia. The institute opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first director ...

for women *

Nikita Bichurin Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (; – ), better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth, sometimes known as Joacinth or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology. He translated many works from Chinese into Russian, w ...

(1777–1853), a founder of

Sinology Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilization p ...

, published many documents on Chinese and

Mongolian history Various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu (3rd century BC–1st century AD), the Xianbei state ( AD 93–234), the Rouran Khaganate (330–555), the First (552–603) and Second Turkic Khaganates (682–744) and others, ruled the area of ...

, opened the first Chinese-language school in Russia *

Boris Hessen Boris Mikhailovich Hessen (), also Gessen (16 August 1893, Elisavetgrad – 20 December 1936, Moscow), was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's '' Principia'' which became fo ...

(1893–1936), physicist who brought

externalism Externalism is a group of positions in the philosophy of mind which argues that the conscious mind is not only the result of what is going on inside the nervous system (or the brain), but also what ''occurs'' or ''exists'' outside the subject. It ...

into modern

historiography of science The historiography of science or the historiography of the history of science is the study of the history and methodology of the sub-discipline of history, known as the history of science, including its disciplinary aspects and practices (methods, ...

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Dmitry Ilovaysky Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky (; February 11/23, 1832, Ranenburg - February 15, 1920) was an anti-Normanist conservative Russian historian who penned a number of standard history textbooks. Ilovaysky graduated from the Moscow University in 1854 and ...

(1832–1920), 19th-century anti- Normanist *

Igor Diakonov Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff (occasionally spelled Diakonov, ; 12 January 1915 – 2 May 1999) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and its languages. His brothers were also distinguis ...

(1915–1999), historian and linguist, researcher of

Sumer Sumer () is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. ...

and

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...

Dimitri Obolensky Sir Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky (; – 23 December 2001) was a Russian-British historian who was Professor of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Oxford and the author of various historical works. Biography Prince Dimitri Dim ...

(1918–2001), historian and

Byzantinist Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination ...

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* Boris Farmakovsky (1870–1928), archaeologist of

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

colony

Olbia Olbia (, ; ; ) is a city and communes of Italy, commune of 61,000 inhabitants in the Italy, Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle ...

* Friedrich von Adelung (1768–1843), historian and

museologist Museology (also called museum studies or museum science) is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and ed ...

, researched the European accounts of the

Time of Troubles The Time of Troubles (), also known as Smuta (), was a period of political crisis in Tsardom of Russia, Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I of Russia, Feodor I, the last of the Rurikids, House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 wit ...

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* Vladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), egyptologist, excavated Wadi Hammamat, discovered over 6,000 antiquities, including the ''

Moscow Mathematical Papyrus The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, also named the Golenishchev Mathematical Papyrus after its first non-Egyptian owner, Egyptologist Vladimir Golenishchev, is an ancient Egyptian mathematical papyrus containing several problems in arithmetic, ge ...

'', the ''

Story of Wenamun The Story of Wenamun (alternately known as the Report of Wenamun, The Misadventures of Wenamun, Voyage of Unamūn, or nformallyas just Wenamun) is a literary text written in hieratic in the Late Egyptian language. It is only known from one incom ...

'', and various Fayum portraits *

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 ...

(1813–1855), a founder of

mediaeval studies Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. A historian who studies medieval studies is called a medievalist. Institutional development The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening ...

in Russia, disproved the historicity of

Vineta Vineta (sometimes ''Wineta'') is the name of a legendary city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The legend evolved around traditions about the Medieval emporium called Jumne, Jomsborg, Julin or similar names by the chronicles, and with wh ...

Boris Grekov Boris Dmitrievich Grekov (; – 9 September 1953) was a Russian Empire, Russian and Soviet Union, Soviet historian noted for his comprehensive studies of Kievan Rus and the Golden Horde. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (19 ...

(1882–1953), researcher of

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,. * was the first East Slavs, East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical At ...

and

Golden Horde The Golden Horde, self-designated as ''Ulug Ulus'' ( in Turkic) was originally a Mongols, Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. With the division of ...

* Alexander V. Gordon (born 1937), researcher of the French Revolution,

Third world The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Southern Cone, NATO, Western European countries and oth ...

and

Peasantry A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasan ...

* Vladimir Guerrier (1837–1919), historian of the French Revolution, founder of the '' Courses Guerrier'' for women * Lev Gumilev (1912–1992), historian and ethnologist, researcher of ancient

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

n peoples, related

ethnogenesis Ethnogenesis (; ) is the formation and development of an ethnic group. This can originate by group self-identification or by outside identification. The term ''ethnogenesis'' was originally a mid-19th-century neologism that was later introduce ...

and

biosphere The biosphere (), also called the ecosphere (), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on the Earth. The biosphere (which is technically a spherical shell) is virtually a closed system with regard to mat ...

, influenced the rise of Neo-Eurasianism

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* Igor Diakonov (1915–1999), historian and linguist, researcher of Sumer and Assyria * (born 1953), specialist in the history of Russia of the 16th–18th centuries

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* Konstantin Kapkov (born 1969), a historian of the reign of Nicholas II and the history of the Russian Orthodox church. * Pyotr Kafarov (1817–1878),

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

, discovered many invaluable manuscripts, including ''

The Secret History of the Mongols The ''Secret History of the Mongols'' is the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolic languages. Written for the Borjigin, Mongol royal family some time after the death of Genghis Khan in 1227, it recounts his life and conquests, and parti ...

'' *

Nikolai Karamzin Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin () was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental ''History of the Russian State'', a 12-volume national history. Early life Karamzin was born in the small village of ...

(1766–1826), sentimentalist writer, historian and manuscript collector, author of the 12-volume ''History of the Russian State'' *

Vasily Klyuchevsky Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (; – ) was a leading Russian Empire, Russian Imperial historian of the late imperial period. He also addressed the contemporary Russian economy in his writings. Biography A village priest's son, Klyuchevsky studi ...

(1841–1911), played influential role in Russian historiography around 1900, shifted focus from politics and society to geography and economy *

Alexander Kazhdan Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (; 3 September 1922 – 29 May 1997) was a Soviet and American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume ''Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'', a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 ...

(1922–1997),

, editor of the ''

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium The ''Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'' (ODB) is a three-volume historical dictionary published by the English Oxford University Press. With more than 5,000 entries, it contains comprehensive information in English on topics relating to the Byzan ...

'' * Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), researcher of

Byzantine art Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of Rome, decline of western Rome and ...

Andrey Korotayev Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropology, anthropologist, economic history, economic historian, comparative politics, comparative political scientist, demography, demographer and sociology, sociologist ...

(born 1961), historian and anthropologist, a founder of

cliodynamics Cliodynamics () is a transdisciplinary area of research that integrates cultural evolution, economic history/ cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical modeling of historical processes during the '' longue durée'', and the construction and ...

, developer of

social cycle theory Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle th ...

* , (1928–2020), sinologist and archaeologist * Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960), scholar of classical antiquity * Nikolay Kun (1877–1940), historian, writer and educator *

Yelena Yefimovna Kuzmina Elena Efimovna Kuz'mina (; 13 April 193117 October 2013) was a Russian archaeologist. She was the chief research officer of the Russian Institute for Cultural Researches. She led 25 archaeological expeditions and participated in over a hundred, mo ...

(1931–2013), researcher of prehistory of Indo-Aryan peoples

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Platon Levshin Plato II or Platon II (29 June 1737 – 11 November 1812) was the Metropolitan bishop, Metropolitan of Moscow from 1775 to 1812. He personifies the Russian Enlightenment, Age of Enlightenment in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born at Chash ...

(1737–1812), president of the

Most Holy Synod The Most Holy Governing Synod (, pre-reform orthography: ) was the highest governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1721 and 1917. It was abolished following the February Revolution of 1917 and replaced with a restored patriar ...

during the

Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a Europe, European Intellect, intellectual and Philosophy, philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century. Chiefly valuing knowledge gained th ...

, author of the first systematic course of the history of

Russian Orthodox Church The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The Primate (bishop), p ...

* Nikolay Likhachyov (1862–1936), first and foremost Russian sigillographer, also in a number of other auxiliary historical disciplines * Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824–1896), statesman, published the major ''Russian

Genealogical Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kin ...

Book'' *

Mikhail Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; , ; – ) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of ...

(1711–1765), polymath scientist and artist, the first opponent of the Normanist theory, published an early account of Russian history * Matvei Lyubavsky (1860–1936) historian of ancient Russian history

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* Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972), historian and archaeologist, founder of modern

studies, excavated a great number of

and Khazar

s and settlements, including the fortress of Sarkel * Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian–Ukrainian historian, folklorist and romantic writer, researched the differences between

Great Russia Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus' ( , ; , ; , ), is a name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia. This was the land to which the e ...

and

Little Russia Little Russia, also known as Lesser Russia, Malorussia, or Little Rus', is a geographical and historical term used to describe Ukraine. At the beginning of the 14th century, the patriarch of Constantinople accepted the distinction between wha ...

and the history of

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

Pyotr Kozlov Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (; 3 October 1863 in Dukhovshchina – 26 September 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian and Soviet traveller and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet. Biography Although prepar ...

(1863–1935), explorer of

, discoverer of the ancient Tangut city of

Khara-Khoto Khara-Khoto (; (''Khar Khot''); 'black city'), also known as Qara-Qoto, Heishuicheng or Heishui City (), is an abandoned city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, China, near the Juyan Lake Basin. Built in 1032, the city ...

and

Xiongnu The Xiongnu (, ) were a tribal confederation of Nomad, nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese historiography, Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. Modu Chanyu, t ...

royal burials at Noin-Ula

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Nikolay Danilevsky Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky (; – ) was a Russian naturalist, economist, ethnologist, philosopher, historian and ideologue of pan-Slavism and the Slavophile movement. He expounded a circular view of world history. He is remembered also ...

(1822–1885), ethnologist, philosopher and historian, a founder of

Eurasianism Eurasianism ( ) is a Political sociology, socio-political movement in Russia that emerged in the early 20th century under the Russian Empire, which states that Russia does not belong in the "European" or "Asian" categories but instead to the Geop ...

, the first to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations

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* Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), since 1989 Professor of Russian and European History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Visiting Professor of Imperial Russian History at the University of Chicago (2006). *

Boris Marshak Boris Ilich Marshak (; 9 July 1933 – 28 July 2006) was an archeologist who spent more than fifty years excavating the Sogdian ruins at Panjakent, Tajikistan. Biography Boris Ilich Marshak was born in Luga, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR ...

(1933–2006), excavated the Sogdian ruins at

Panjakent Panjakent () or Penjikent () is a city in the Sughd province of Tajikistan on the river Zeravshan (river), Zeravshan, with a population of 52,500 (2020 estimate). It was once an ancient town in Sogdiana. The ruins of the old town are on the outsk ...

* Friedrich Martens (1845–1909), legal historian, drafted the

Martens Clause The Martens Clause (International Phonetic Alphabet, pronounced ) is an early international law concept first introduced into the preamble of the 1899 Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, Hague Convention II – Laws and Customs of War on Land. ...

of the Hague Peace Conference * Vladimir Minorsky (1877–1966), historian of Persia * Yagutil Mishiev (born 1927), writer, author of books about the history of Derbent, Dagestan, Russia. * Anatoly Moskvin (born 1966), Linguistics, linguist and history, historian, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home. * Gerhardt Friedrich Müller (1705–1783), co-founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explorer and the first academic historian of Siberia and Russia, pioneer of ethnography, put forth the Normanist theory * Aleksei Musin-Pushkin (1744–1817), collector of Kievan Rus' manuscripts, discovered ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign''

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(1918–2001), Byzantine commonwealth researcher * Alexey Okladnikov (1908–1981), historian and archaeologist of Siberia and Mongolia Alexei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin

* Sergey Oldenburg (1863–1934), a founder of Russian Indology and the Academic Institute of Oriental Studies * George Ostrogorsky (1902–1976), 20th-century

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* Avraamy Palitsyn (died 1626), 17th-century historian of the

* Anna Pankratova (1897–1957), leading Soviet historian, educator and writer * Evgeny Pashukanis (1891–1937), legal historian, wrote ''The General Theory of Law and Marxism'' * Boris Piotrovsky (1908–1990), researcher of Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia, long-term director of the Hermitage Museum * Mikhail Piotrovsky (born 1944), orientalist, current director of the Hermitage Museum * Mikhail Pogodin (1800–1875), mid-19th-century Russian historian and textologist, proponent of the Normanist theory * Boris Petrovich Polevoy, Boris Polevoy (1918–2002), major historian of the Russian Far East * Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868-1932), Marxist historian, most prominent Soviet historian of the 1920s Michail Pogodin

* Natalia Polosmak (born 1956), archaeologist of Pazyryk burials, discoverer of Pazyryk Ice Maiden, Ice Maiden mummy * Alexander Polovtsov (1832–1909), statesman, historian and Maecenas, founder of the Russian Historian Society * Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Tatyana Proskuryakova (1909–1985), Mayanist scholar and archaeologist, deciphered the ancient Maya script

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* Semyon Remezov (ca. 1642- after 1720), cartographer and the first historian of Siberia, author of the ''Remezov Chronicle'' * Mikhail Rostovtsev (1870–1952), archeologist and economist, the first to thoroughly examine the social and economic systems of the Ancient World, excavated Dura-Europos * Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter, archeologist, and public figure, explorer of

, initiator of the international Roerich’s Pact on protection of historical monuments * Sergei Rudenko (1885–1969), discoverer of

Pazyryk burials * Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), historian and chief Soviet archaeologist for 40 years, primary opponent of the Normanist theory Charsolomon TProskouriakoff

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* Dmitry Samokvasov (1843–1911), discoverer of Black Grave in Chernigov * Viktor Sarianidi (1929–2013), discoverer of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex and the ''Bactrian Gold'' in

* Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864–1920), historian and philologist, pioneer in textology, particularly textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle, textual criticism of the ''Primary Chronicle'' * Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733–1790), a man of the Russian Enlightenment, conservative historian * Anatoly Pavlovich Shikman (born 1948), author of ''Figures of Russian History'' and other works. * Sergey Solovyov (historian), Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), author of the 29-volume ''History of Russia'' * Vasily Vasilievich Struve, Vasily Struve (1889–1965), orientalist and historian of the Ancient World, put forth the Marxist theory of five socio-economic formations that dominated Soviet education

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* Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), author of studies on Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean War * Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), statesman, geographer and historian, discovered and published ''Russkaya Pravda'', ''Sudebnik'' of 1550 and the controversial ''Ioachim Chronicle''; wrote the ''Istoriya Rossiisskaya''; has been denounced for fabrications, carelessness and untraceable claims, known as Tatishchev information. * Mikhail Tikhomirov (1893–1965), specialist in medieval Russian paleography, contributed to the ''Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles'' (PSRL) * Kamilla Trever (1892–1974), specialist in the history and culture of Transcaucasia and

* Boris Turayev (1868–1920), author of the first full-scale ''History of Ancient World, Ancient East'' * Peter Turchin (born 1957), population biologist and historian, coined the term ''

'' * Alexander Tyumenev (1880–1959), historian of antiquity, author of one of the first Marxist works on the history of classical societies in the Soviet Union

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* Fyodor Uspensky (1845–1928), Byzantinist, researcher of the Trapezuntine Empire * Aleksey Uvarov (1825–1884), founder of the first Russian archaeological society, discovered over 750 ancient

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* Vasily Vasilievsky (1838–1899), 19th century

* Alexander Vasiliev (historian), Alexander Vasiliev (1867–1953), author of a comprehensive ''History of the Byzantine Empire'' * Nikolay Veselovsky (1848–1918), first to excavate Afrasiab (the oldest part of Samarkand), as well as the Solokha and Maikop kurgans in Southern Russia Solovjev S

* Viacheslav Petrovich Volgin (1879–1962), historian of early communist systems

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* Nikolai Yadrintsev (1842–1894), discoverer of Genghis Khan's capital Karakorum and the Orkhon script of ancient Türks * Valentin Yanin (1929–2020), primary researcher of ancient

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* Gennady Zdanovich (born 1938), discoverer of Sintashta culture settlement Arkaim * Viktor Zemskov (1946–2015), researcher of political repression in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1954

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