Sergey Aleksandrovich Nefedov (; born November 4, 1951) is a Russian historian,

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in Historical Sciences (2007),

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in physico-mathematical sciences (1981), leading researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural branch of the

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. He also is a professor at the

Ural Federal University Ural Federal University, named after the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, (Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина, ''Uralʹski� ...

. In 1968 he entered and in 1973 he graduated from the

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, Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty. From 1973 to 1975, he was a graduate student at Ural State University. He was a student of Nikolay Krasovsky. He has twice received 'Public Thought Award' (2008, 2011). He also received the Academician Rychkov Award (2011). He is a ''

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'' magazine award winner (2016). Author of more than 300 publications, including several monographs. He published in

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, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Voprosy Ekonomiki,

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, Economics & Sociology. He is co-author (with

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) of “Secular Cycles” (

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, 2009), reviewed by William R. Thompson, Laura Panza, and Brian J. L. Berry. He is a regular contributor to the magazine ''

''. He's into snorkeling.

List of Monographs published

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Criticism

Historians, including Mikhail Davydov and

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, have engaged in polemics against Nefedov’s methodical evaluations of the standard of living in the Russian Empire, claiming that the

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was much higher in the Russian empire and that is was in fact not a cause of the

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References

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