Alexey Eduardovich Titkov was born on October 11, 1959, in Moscow. He graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University and completed full-time postgraduate studies. He conducted research in the system of the Academy of Sciences: at the Institute of History of the USSR/Russia, in the Department of Foreign Policy of the USSR/Russia; at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations; at the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies. He defended his candidate's dissertation on the German question at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

He conducted research, worked and lectured on the German question and the history of military-political and national conflicts of the first half of the 20th century at Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown, Stanford and Harvard Universities, at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Harriman Institution, the Hoover Institution on War, Peace and Revolution (USA); Edinburgh and Norwich Universities (United Kingdom).

In 1996—1997, he was an advisor (on a voluntary basis) to the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation on local and interethnic conflicts. Vice-President of the Russian Cultural Foundation. 1998—2012 — Editor-in-Chief and Editor-in-Chief of the federal weekly «Rossiyskie Vesti». 2006—2008 — Professor of the Philosophical Faculty of Moscow State University in the Department of Political Science. Since 2012 — Editor-in-Chief of the journal «Istorichesky Vestnik». Since 2015 — Editor-in-Chief of the socio-political almanac «Search. Alternatives. Choice». Since 2013 — Member of the Rector's Office of the Russian State University for the Humanities and Advisor to the Rector on Information Policy. Since 2015 — Vice-Rector for Information Policy at the Russian State University for the Humanities. The author of more than 30 scientific works on military history, the history of Russia, the history of international relations and more than 400 publications in newspaper and electronic media on issues of domestic and foreign policy of the Russian Federation.

Igor Yakovlevich Keremetsky was born in 1967. Higher education. Worked in senior positions in the media. Acted as a political cartoonist. At one time, he held the position of art director of the Russian Culture Foundation. Author of numerous publications on cultural heritage, protection of architectural monuments, as well as on socio-political topics. Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Security and Conflictology. Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Culture and Art. Awarded the «Worthy» medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Spheres of interest: painting, art history, history of Russia, history of socio-political movements, philosophy, antiquity.

Sergey Georgievich Yakovenko was born in 1956 (Lviv). After graduating from high school (1973), he entered the correspondence department of the historical faculty of the Kyiv State University. During studies (1973—1979), worked at the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (1975—1979), which subsequently determined the range of interests associated primarily with the history of religion, Church, Catholic monasticism (Jesuits), and the eastern policy of the papacy. After completing graduate school at the Institute of History of the USSR (1984—1988), defended candidate's dissertation on the Church Union of Brest (1596), written under the supervision of A.I. Klibanov.

Work at the Institute of History of the USSR (1988—2005) (since 1991 — Institute of Russian History), Institute of General History (1995—2005), fulfilling the duties of the academic secretary of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences «The Role of Religions in History» (1991—2007) under the supervision of Ya.N. Shchapov provided the opportunity to engage in previously planned research.

Scholarships and grants – Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome (1992); Foundation of Bl. Angelico, Rome (1994); German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Max Weber Foundation; Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants (2015) helped to significantly advance in the chosen specialization.

The collected materials became the basis for works devoted to questions of diplomatic and church relations between Rome and Moscow in the 16th century, publication of documents on this topic, studying the activities of Russian researchers of Italian archives and libraries (Fr. Pavel Pierling [1840—1922]), E.F. Shmurlo (1854—1934), the history of the Jesuits in Eastern Europe.

Favorite activity — songs with a guitar in a circle of friends.

Wendy Z. Goldman, Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, is a social and political historian of Russia. Her works include Women, State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936 (1993) and Women at the Gate: Gender and Industry in the Life of Stalin’s Russia (2002), which focus on family policy, women’s emancipation, and industrialization. She is the author of several studies on Stalin’s repressions: Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (2007), Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia (2011). Her most recent work (with Donald Filzer), Famine and War: Food in the Soviet Union during World War II (2015), examines food policy at the front and in the home front in the Soviet Union. She is currently working on a book about the Soviet home front during World War II.

Anton Anatolyevich Gorsky is the editor-in-chief of the collection «Medieval Rus». Laureate of the V.O. Klyuchevsky Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006 (for the book «Rus’: From Slavic Settlement to the Muscovite Kingdom»).

Anton Anatolyevich Gorsky is the editor-in-chief of the collection «Medieval Rus». Laureate of the V.O. Klyuchevsky Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006 (for the book «Rus’: From Slavic Settlement to the Muscovite Kingdom»).

Major works:

The Old Russian Squad. Moscow, 1989.
«The Tale of Igor's Campaign» and «Zadonshchina»: source studies and historical-cultural problems. Moscow, 1992.
Russian Lands in the 13th—14th Centuries: Paths of Political Development. M., 1996.
The Great Migration of Peoples: Ethnopolitical and Social Aspects. M., 1999. 2nd ed. M., 2011 (co-authored).
Moscow and the Horde. M., 2000.
«The Russian land is filled with everything...»: Personalities and Mentality of the Russian Middle Ages. M., 2001.
The Tale of Igor’s Campaign, Igor, son of Svyatslav, grandson of Olgov. M., 2002. (Text preparation, translation, commentary.)
Rus’: From Slavic Settlement to the Muscovite Kingdom. M., 2004.
Ancient Rus’: Essays on Political and Social Structure. M., 2008 (co-authored).
From lands to great principalities: «fictions» of Russian princes of the second half of the 13th—14th centuries. Moscow, 2010.
Russian Middle Ages: myths and historical reality. Moscow, 2010.

Sergey Viktorovich Devyatov was born on October 14, 1960, in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of History, Moscow State University. Since the mid-1980s, he worked as a lecturer and research fellow in the Moscow Kremlin, was the custodian of the funds of Lenin's office and apartment. Candidate of Historical Sciences.

He defended his dissertation «The Emergence and Formation of Autocracy in Soviet Russia. 1922—1927» at the State Archives of the Ukrainian SSR, receiving the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Since 2009 — Editor-in-Chief of the magazine «Kremlin-9 — VVP»; member of the editorial board of the magazines «Rodina», «Istorichesky Vestnik», «Rodnaya Ladoga». Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the Academy of Culture and Arts, member of the Russian House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He is the author of more than one and a half hundred scientific works, publications, books on Russian history, the history of the Moscow Kremlin, the state security of Russia: scientific consultant and co-author of more than 60 scripts for documentary films about the Moscow Kremlin.

Main works:

M.N. Lyadov: a forgotten biography (1992).
Palaces of the Kremlin (2001).
Moscow Kremlin (2007).
Red Square (2013).
Stalin's Near Dacha. An Experience of a Historical Guide (2011).
History of the State Security and Special Communications Bodies of Russia (2011).
Moscow during the Napoleonic Invasion (2013).

Dmitry Rustemovich Zhantiev was born in 1969. An Arabist historian by specialty and vocation, his research interests include the history of the Arab countries of the Middle East in the late Ottoman era (18th–19th centuries), problems of civilizational interaction between the East and the West, and the history of Arab-Muslim socio-political thought in modern times.

«From a young age, I was keenly interested in historical knowledge, especially the history and culture of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and I was fascinated by the Arabic “ligature”, the secrets of which I so wanted to penetrate. This interest in Arab countries (the most beloved of which, by the will of fate, was Jordan) eventually led me to the Institute of Asian and Asian Studies of Moscow State University, within whose walls the best traditions of Russian oriental studies have been preserved and multiplied for decades. As a result of a six-month internship in Jordan, there were no longer any doubts about the future path: postgraduate studies at my native institute, after defending my candidate's dissertation — teaching and scientific work, publication of the monograph "Tradition and Modernization in the Arab East: Reforms in the Syrian Provinces of the Ottoman Empire (late 18th — early 20th centuries)", scientific articles, conferences. Scientific knowledge of various aspects of the Arab world — both distant and close to our country — is an endlessly fascinating, exciting process. Moreover, the history of several Muslim states (with the dynasties that ruled them) is an integral part of Russian history – be it the medieval Arab Caliphate, whose possessions for several centuries included the territory of Dagestan, the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate... The past of these and several other Muslim states that existed on the territory of Russia within its modern borders, as well as within the borders of the Russian Empire, cannot be understood in isolation from the fate of the Islamic world as a whole and its civilization, the cultural “code” of which was the Arabic literary language. It is more gratifying that this most important issue in a strictly scientific format is reflected on the pages of the revived “Historical Herald.”»

Salavat Midkhatovich Iskhakov was born in the Bashkir ASSR in 1959. Graduate of the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute, research intern, postgraduate student at the Institute of History of the USSR of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Russian History), leading researcher at the Center for the Study of Modern History of Russia and Political Science at the Institute of Russian History.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, specialist in the history of Russia and the USSR in the 20th century. Secretary General of the International Commission on the History of the Russian Revolution, participated in the preparation of the XIX, XX, XXI world congresses of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (2000, 2005, 2010), in the work of its General Assembly (2002).

Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the History of Social Reforms, Movements and Revolutions, which is entrusted with a wide range of scientific and scientific-organizational tasks; responsible compiler of the three-volume collections of documents «Moscow–Washington. The Kremlin’s Policy and Diplomacy. 1921–1941» (Moscow, 2009), «Moscow–Berlin. The Kremlin’s Policy and Diplomacy. 1920–1926» (Moscow, 2011), collections of materials from international scientific conferences «Political Parties in Russian Revolutions at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century» (Moscow, 2005), «The Tragedy of a Great Power: The National Question and the Collapse of the Soviet Union» (Moscow, 2005), «The Fall of the Empire, Revolution, and Civil War in Russia» (Moscow, 2010), «Russia and the First World War: Economic Problems, Public Sentiment, International Relations» (Moscow, 2014), etc.

Favorite hobby: historical science.

Georgy Kantor studied in Moscow and Balliol College (Oxford). He currently works at St John's College, Oxford.

Georgy Kantor studied in Moscow and Balliol College (Oxford). He currently works at St John's College, Oxford.

Igor Vladimirovich Kurukin was born in Moscow in 1953, where he lives. He is a graduate of the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute (now part of the Russian State University for the Humanities), where he works as a professor of the Department of Medieval and Modern Russian History.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, specialist in the history of Russia from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

His favorite pastime is digging in the archive. His hobby is working on archaeological expeditions.

He currently lives in the 18th century, to which he dedicated his books: «The Era of the “Court Storms”: Essays on the Political History of Post-Petrine Russia, 1725—1762» (2003), «Biron» (2006), «Everyday Life of a Russian Tavern from Ivan the Terrible to Boris Yeltsin» (2007), «Everyday Life of the Secret Chancellery of the 18th Century» (2008), «January 19 — February 25, 1730: Events, People, Documents» (2010), «Persian Campaign of Peter the Great. The Lower Corps on the Shores of the Caspian. 1722—1735» (2010), «Artemy Volynsky» (2011), «Anna Leopoldovna» (2012), «Anna Ioannovna» (2014).

Alexander Vladimirovich Marey was born in Moscow in 1980, where he currently lives. He graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities, majoring in History (2002, specializing in Ancient World and Middle Ages), where he defended his PhD dissertation (2005) and worked until 2011. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, and a leading researcher at the Center for Fundamental Sociology (there). His current place of residence and, concurrently, the love of his life is medieval Castile, circa 13th century. He writes about this (though not only this), lives and breathes this. His hobbies include fishing and chess, and his favorite pastime is working with manuscripts and teaching at the university. Among the main works written and published so far are the book «The Language of Law in Medieval Spain» (2008) and about 40 articles.

Teacher of Medieval History, Medieval Political Thought and Legal History at the National University of San Martin (Buenos Aires). Previously, he taught at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Quilmes.

His publications include articles on medieval political thought, legal history, manuscript studies, medieval political theory, law and culture.

Efim Iosifovich Pivovar was born on December 15, 1949, in Moscow. He graduated from the History Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1976, he defended his PhD thesis «Scientific and Technical Progress and Workers in the Automobile Industry (1966—1970)».

Since 1986, he has been working at MGIAI (RSUH). In 2006—2016, he was the Rector, and since 2016, the President of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Since 1997 — Professor of the History Department of Moscow State University, Head of the Information and Analytical Center for Theoretical Problems of Historical Science, Editor-in-Chief of the Information and Analytical Bulletin «Theoretical Problems of Historical Research». Since 1999 — Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University for educational and methodological unification and additional education, since 2004 — Head of the Department of History of Neighboring Countries of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

Research interests and sphere of research activity: Russian history of the 20th – early 21st centuries, historiography and source studies of Russian history, theoretical problems of historical research, socio-economic history, history of Russian emigration and Russian diaspora, history of neighboring countries, integration processes in the post-Soviet space.

Author of more than 400 research papers, including monographs, chapters in collective works, textbooks and teaching aids for higher and secondary schools, published both in the Russian Federation and abroad.

Taras Yuryevich Kobishchanov was born in 1973. «Interest in history, including the history of the Middle East, was instilled in me in childhood by my father, Yuri Mikhailovich Kobishchanov. Therefore, entering the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University in 1990 seemed natural to me, and since then I have not been disappointed in my choice. The Institute of Asian and African Countries, dear to my heart, remains my place of work to this day.

The first object of independent studies, which began during my studies, was the history of Middle Eastern Christianity, and its result was the monograph “Christian Communities in the Arab-Ottoman World (16th – first third of the 19th century)”. The analysis of the interaction between the Russian and Arab Orthodox churches developed into an interest in the first military and diplomatic contacts between Russia and the Arab world, which occurred at the beginning of Europe's colonial penetration into the Middle East. The era of mutual "discovery" of the Russian and Arab Muslim civilizations is the subject of a dozen and a half of my published works. Another area of research was historical psychology — an interdisciplinary direction capable of opening a new facet of studying the past. The cultural codes that permeate and largely determine our reality originate from the past, and from the past of different civilizations. In this regard, the attention to intercultural and intercivilizational interaction paid by the editorial board of the "Historical Herald" inspires and encourages me to join its staff with pleasure».

Sergey Pavlovich Brun was born in May 1986 in Moscow. The family belongs to an old French family, known since the time of Louis IX the Saint; the first known ancestor — Roland Le Brun — was a participant in the Seventh Crusade, one of the knights in the service of Count Hugo XIII de Lusignan. In 1992, Sergey Brun and his parents emigrated to Canada, and later to the United States. Since 1995, he lived in Las Vegas, where he spent most of his childhood and adolescence. There, for the first time – in a children's book about the Crusades – Sergei read the word «Antioch» (more precisely, «the Principality of Antioch»), which awakened interest in this city, Syria, the Crusaders, Byzantium, Rome. In 2004, having moved to Moscow, he entered the Moscow Art Theatre School, in the acting department (course of A.G. Guskov and M.A. Lobanov). He graduated in 2008. Between 2008 and 2012, he worked in film at the same time (his leading roles included Lariosik in Sergei Snezhkin's film «The White Guard», the gypsy Lara in the film «Veselchaki», and a number of supporting roles in 10 more films). At the same time, he studied in the graduate school of the Institute of Cultural Studies of the State University of Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he began his dissertation research on Christian Syria (under the supervision of the famous Russian medievalist D.E. Kharitonovich). At the same time, he decided to devote himself entirely to scientific and museum work; in October 2012, he moved to work at the Museum of Russian Icons. He was responsible for excursion work, the department of external relations and the collection of Christian art of Ethiopia; he gave original lecture courses on the history of Byzantium and the Christian East.

In 2015, he published a two-volume monograph «The Romans and Franks in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia in the 11th—13th centuries. On the history of contact between Latin and Byzantine Christians on the borders of the East».

In the period from 2017 to 2018, he gained his first teaching experience, having read a special course at the Catholic (Jesuit) Institute of St. Thomas. At the same time, he continued his scientific, lecture-educational and museum work. Sergei Bryun periodically appears on radio and television as an expert on the history of Christianity and church policy.

Since 2018 — employee of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. Currently working on a dissertation (under the supervision of P.V. Kuzenkov and K.A. Panchenko) at the Department of Church History of the History Department of Moscow State University.

During his — so far not very long — scientific career — he has published, in addition to a two-volume monograph, more than 30 scientific and popular science works on the history of the medieval East, Byzantium, the history of the Church, Christian culture

Vladimir Viktorovich Orlov was born in 1969 in Moscow. In 1992, he graduated from the Department of History of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is an Arabist historian, specializing in Islamic religious and political institutions, the history of North African countries, and international relations in the Arab-Muslim world. In 1995, he defended his PhD dissertation «Socio-political development of Alaouite Morocco in the mid-18th – early 19th centuries». He conducted archival research (1996–1997) in the collection of documents of the Alaouite Studies Center (Risani, Morocco). Since 1995, he has been working at the Department of History of the Countries of the Near and Middle East of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University, teaching courses on History of Asian and African Countries, Source Studies and Historiography of the Arab World, History of Arab Countries, Historical and Philosophical Theories, Modern Methods of Scientific Research, and teaching at the Faculty of History of Moscow University. In 2013, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Monarchy and Islam in Alaouite Morocco: «Historical Paths of Interaction (17th – Early 21st Century)». His research interests include issues of identity and self-perception in Arab societies, the development of Islamic ideological and political movements, the evolution of scholarship and scholarly tradition in Islam, the participation of Islamic parties and organizations in the public life of North Africa, the history of Russian Arab relations, and regional relations in the Greater Middle East. Author of the monographs «Traditional Social Organization of Alaouite Morocco (mid-18th – early 19th century): Concepts – Structures – Interrelations» (Moscow: Publishing House «Tree of Life», 1998), «Political Islam in the Countries of North Africa: History and Current State» (co-authored with M.F. Vidyasova, Moscow: Publishing House of Moscow University, 2008) and more than 140 other scientific and educational publications in Russian, English and French.

Born July 14, 1954, Bucharest, Romania. Graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University (1977). Candidate of Historical Sciences (1983). Doctor of Historical Sciences (1998). Professor (2000). Professor (1999), Head of the Department of History of the Near and Middle East (2018 – present) at the Institute of Asian and African Countries. Distinguished Professor of Moscow University (2011). Research interests: problems of ideology and functioning of the Islamic religious complex in the Arab-Muslim world. The topic of the candidate's dissertation is «Islam in the public life of Egypt: the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries». The topic of his doctoral dissertation is «Islam in Ottoman Egypt in the 18th — first third of the 19th century: socio-political and ideological functions». He teaches courses «Mosque in the history and architecture of the Islamic world», «Islam and its visual and artistic embodiments», «New history of Arab countries», «History of Arab social thought», «Islamic studies». Main works: «Islamic institutions of Ottoman Egypt in the 18th — first third of the 19th century» (2000), «Enchanted wanderers: the Arab-Muslim world through the eyes of Russian pilgrims» (2010), textbook «Fundamentals of religious studies» (co-author, 2010), «Religious studies» (co-author, 2011).

Specialist in the field of historiography, source studies and methodology of Russian history and the history of international relations; archival science, source studies and archeography of audiovisual and electronic documents.

Scientific biography. Since his student years, he began to study issues related, on the one hand, to the events of the history of Russia in the first half of the 20th century and, on the other hand, to their historiographical interpretation in the works of Russian, English, American and French historians. This area of scientific interests predetermined the problems of the candidate's dissertation devoted to the study of the history of the Russian Empire of the post-reform period in foreign historiography, and the doctoral dissertation on the Soviet and post-Soviet historiography of the economic history of Russia in the early 20th century. The same issues are the subject of more than a hundred of my written works, which were published as part of two individual monographs, one collective monograph and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

The second area of knowledge was the problems of archival science and documentation, related to audiovisual and electronic documents. As part of their study at the empirical level, in particular, a guide to documents on the history of France and Franco-Russian relations stored in the federal state archives of Russia, co-authored with B. Delmas and E.V. Starostin and published in 2010 in Paris; articles on the documentary collections of the Rostov Kremlin State Museum-Reserve, where I have been working as a scientific consultant since 2017. The interim results of theoretical research on this issue were presented by me in the first section of the collective monograph «Documentation Systems: Theory and Practice», published in 2019.

In recent years, a third area of scientific interests has formed, which consists of studying the problems of theory and methodology of complex regional studies. I have already made reports on it at international scientific conferences at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and published four articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Khutarev-Garnishevsky was born on June 17, 1985, in Moscow. In 2007, he graduated with honors from the History Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of History of Russia of the 19th — early 20th centuries, and in 2011, he completed his postgraduate studies at the faculty. On February 14, 2012, he defended his candidate's dissertation on the topic «A Separate Corps of Gendarmes and the Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Political Investigation Agencies on the Eve and During the First World War, 1913—1917». Supervisor: Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor L.G. Zakharova. Research interests: History of the First World War and the February Revolution, history of political investigation agencies and military counterintelligence, pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism in Russia, genealogy, history of Russian architecture, protection of cultural monuments. In 2012—2013, he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Humanitarian Research (now the School of Contemporary Humanitarian Research) at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Project topic: «The Russian administrative and police apparatus in the North Caucasus during the First World War and the Civil War, 1914—1920». Laureate of a grant from the State Club Foundation on the topic «Personnel policy of the Russian political police in 1880—1917». Author and co-author of monographs, a collection of documents, several scientific articles in journals, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the encyclopedia «Russia in the First World War». Conducted historical and archival research in various repositories in Russia and Ukraine. In 2016—2018, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine «Russia. Heritage». In 2020, he was nominated for the Yegor Gaidar Foundation Prize «for outstanding contribution to history». Member of the Russian Association of Historians of the First World War. Associate member of the Russian Noble Assembly. In 2013—2018, he was the chairman of the council (full-time head) of the Moscow city branch of VOOPIiK (All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments). From 2013 to present, he is a member of the Presidium of the Council of the Union of Moscow Architects for urban development and preservation of the historical environment. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Pyotr Jurgenson Charitable Foundation. I am a member of the expert council of the charitable foundation for the preservation of cultural and historical heritage «Attention». Main publications Confrontation. Intelligence services, army and power on the eve of the fall of the Russian Empire, 1913—1917 M., 2020. 648 p. Ghosts of Treason. Russian Special Services in the Baltic in the Memories of Lieutenant Colonel V.V. Vladimirov, 1910–1917: A Collection of Memories and Documents. M., 2019. 304 p. Russian Special Services, Political Islamism, and Separatism in the North Caucasus at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Comparative Historical Studies. Socio-Political Background // The Greater Caucasus Twenty Years Later: Resources and Strategies of Identity Politics. M.: New Literary Review, 2014. pp. 160–182. (co-authored) For Russia and Freedom. The Feat of the White Cause 1917–1923. M., 2007. 192 p.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Kopot was born in 1985. In 2011, he graduated from the postgraduate program at RUDN University. His teaching work began in 2009 at the Faculty of History, Moscow State University for the Humanities named after M.A. Sholokhov, and then continued at the Institute of History and Politics, Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 2016, he performed tasks as an employee of the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Monitoring the Movement of Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic. Based on the results of his activities in 2016, he was awarded the state award of the Russian Federation. Research interests: history of Christianity in the Arab East, Russian spiritual and diplomatic presence in the Antiochian Patriarchate in the 19th—20th centuries and, more broadly, civilizational contacts between Russia and the Christian East. Prof. F.M. Atsamba made a significant contribution to scientific development. Since 2012, research in these areas has been carried out under the strict guidance of Prof. K.A. Panchenko, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University. Based on its results, reports were made at international scientific conferences at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, HSE, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences and others. Author of over 30 scientific publications, including the author's section in the collective monograph «The Christian East: Diversity of Regional Elites from Late Antiquity to Modern Times», 4 articles in the «Orthodox Encyclopedia».

Pavel Vyacheslavovich Shlykov was born in Moscow in the spring of 1984. In 2007, he graduated with honors from the Department of History, Institute of Asian and African Countries, Lomonosov Moscow State University, specializing in Turkey. In the 2006–2007 academic year, he studied for a master’s degree in international relations at Yeditepe University (Istanbul, Turkey). In 2010, he completed and defended his PhD dissertation ahead of schedule at the Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University, on the topic of «Waqfs in the Socio-Political History of Turkey (1923–2008)». In May 2015, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the specialty 07.00.03 – «General History». Since 2007, he has been working at the Department of History of the Countries of the Near and Middle East of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University and teaches original courses at other faculties of Moscow State University, at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Member of the European Association of Arabists and Islamic Scholars (Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants). Specialist in the field of social and political history of the Turkish Republic and the late Ottoman Empire. His research interests cover the problems of transformation of Islamic institutions in the countries of the Near and Middle East, the history of Russian Turkish relations, issues of modernization, development of civil society, the role of Islam and the army in politics. The author of the monographs «Waqfs in Turkey: Transformation of a Traditional Institution» (Moscow: Marjani, 2011), «Dynamics of Russian Turkish Relations in the Context of Growing Global Instability» (co-authored with N.Yu. Ulchenko, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2014), «Islamic Jamaats in the History, Politics and Social Dynamics of the Countries of the East» (co-authored with I.G. Saetov and E.V. Koldunova, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021) and 180 other publications in scientific journals in Russian, English and Turkish. The results of P.V. Shlykov's scientific research were presented at 200 Russian and foreign international conferences, symposia, congresses and scientific forums at universities in Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria, Denmark, etc.

Alexandra Lvovna Safronova was born on March 29, 1955, in Moscow. She graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and completed her full-time postgraduate studies. She began her research and teaching career in 1982 at the Department of South Asian History at the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University. In 1982, she defended her candidate's dissertation, and in 2000, her doctoral dissertation on the historical evolution of the Buddhist sangha in the South Asian region. In 2004, A.L. Safronova was awarded the academic title of professor in the Department of South Asian History, and in 2012, the honorary title of «Honored Professor of Moscow University». Since 2016, he is the head of the Department of South Asian History, the head of the Department of History and Political Science at the Institute of Asian and Asian Studies of Moscow State University and the chairman of the Methodological Council of the Department of History and Political Science at the Institute of Asian and Asian Studies of Moscow State University, and the head of the research project «History and Culture of the Countries of the East: Intercivilizational Contacts». Member of the editorial board of the journal «Bulletin of Moscow University. Series 13. Oriental Studies», member of dissertation councils at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of History) – MSU.07.04 and at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences – D 002.042.03. The scope of his scientific interests covers the problems of historical, cultural and socio-political development of the states of the South Asian region. The author of about 200 scientific papers, author's monographs, including: «The Buddhist World of South Asia: Traditions and Interpretations» (Moscow, Klyuch-S, 2023), chapters and sections in collective monographs, textbooks: «History of the East» (Vol. 6. M., Eastern Literature, 2008), «History of India» (Moscow, Gaugn-Press, 2018), «World History» (Vol. 6. M., Nauka, 2018). «Religious Studies» (Moscow, Yurait, 2024), «History of Religion» (Moscow, Yurait, 2020), «History of Buddhism. Buddhism in the Modern World» (Moscow, Yurait, 2024), articles in scientific collections, journals, encyclopedias. Participates in reading several general courses at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University: «History of Asian and African Countries», «World History», «History of Russia: East and Russia», etc. Reads courses «History of the South Asian Region in Modern Times», «History of Social Thought in South Asia», «Socio-political Development of South Asia», «History of Religions in South Asia».

Dmitry Igorevich Petin was born on January 27, 1986, in Omsk. He graduated from the Omsk State Technical University with a degree in Historical and Archival Science (2008) and completed his full-time postgraduate studies there (2011). Author of over 150 scientific papers on the socio-economic and military-political history of Russia in the first third of the 20th century. Member of the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed publications «Bulletin of the Archivist», «Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity», «Northern Archives and Expeditions», «Siberian Archive». Organizer of ongoing scientific and practical conferences «Civil War in Eastern Russia: A Look Through Documentary Heritage», «Activities of Domestic Special Services in the Era of Social Cataclysms». Research interests: historical biography, military history of the twentieth century, Civil War in Eastern Russia, «former people» in Soviet Russia, history of money circulation, bonistics.

Irina Aleksandrovna Khormach graduated from the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute (now part of the Russian State University for the Humanities) and completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of History of the USSR, USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences). Author of works on the history of the USSR foreign policy and international relations of the 20th century. Main works: Monographs and articles devoted to the relations between the USSR and Italy in the interwar period and after World War II; problems of the struggle and cooperation of the USSR with the League of Nations throughout its entire existence; activities of the Soviet state at international forums in the 1920s and 1930s; participation of the USSR in international conflicts, etc.

Born April 25, 1975, in Moscow. In 2000, he graduated with honors from the History Department of Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 2004, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic «White Armies of the South of Russia: Features of Recruitment Sources and Social Composition (Based on the Materials of the First Army Corps). 1917—1920». In 2013, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences on the topic «White Movement in Russia: Social Composition and Recruitment Sources of the White Armies (1917—1922)». Since 2000, he worked at the Russian State Archive of Economics as a leading specialist in the information support department, and then as a chief specialist of the Information Technology Center of the Russian Archive, created under the Russian State Archive of Economics. In 2006, he moved to work at the Drofa publishing house as deputy editor-in-chief of the professional education editorial board. Since 2011 — deputy editor-in-chief of the general education editorial board, since autumn 2014 — editor-in-chief of the publishing house. In 2017—2021, he was the editor-in-chief of the Russian Textbook Corporation. In 2021, he was appointed deputy executive director of the History of the Fatherland Foundation for general issues. In 2022, he joined the Board of the Russian Historical Society. On December 27, 2022, by a unanimous decision of the Council of the History of the Fatherland Foundation, he was appointed executive director of the History of the Fatherland Foundation. On February 20, 2025, he received the honorary title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Education. The author of many works on the history of the Civil War and the White movement, the history of the Russian army of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the history of the First World War and the Russian diaspora.

Aleksei Yu. Konev is a Russian historian and specialist in Siberian studies. Born in 1966 in the city of Murom, he has lived and worked in the Tyumen Region since 1970. In 1990, he graduated from the Faculty of History of the Mendeleev Tobolsk State Pedagogical Institute, and in 1993 completed his doctoral studies in Russian History at Samara State University, earning a qualification of historian-researcher. His doctoral dissertation, The System of Administrative Governance among the Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern Siberia in the 18th – Early 20th Centuries, was defended in 1994 at SamSU. From 1993 to 2002, he worked at TSPI as a senior lecturer, Associate Professor (Department of Russian History and Methods of Teaching History) and Vice-Rector for Research. From 1997 to 2005, Dr. Konev organized and headed the Laboratory of History, Historiography, and Source Studies (Social and Historical Research) at the Institute of the Problems of Northern Development of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2002 to 2016, he worked at the Industrial University of Tyumen as director of the Tobolsk branch and Leading Research Fellow of the University’s Department of History and Cultural Studies.

In 2017, Dr. Konev was elected Head of the Section of Social Anthropology of the Institute of the Problems of Northern Development of the Tyumen Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since June 2022, he has worked as Leading Research Fellow at the Section of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the same Institute.

Dr. Konev continues his teaching activities as Associate Professor at the Department of Church History at the Tobolsk Theological Seminary. He is a member of the Historical Council of the city of Tobolsk, the Academic Council of Tyumen Museum and Educational Association, and the Council of the Regional Branch of the Russian Historical Society.

Dr. Konev has authored and co-authored more than 100 scholarly works, including several monographs on national policy, history of regional governance and Church history in Siberia from the 17th to early 20th centuries, social history and ethnography of the peoples of the Siberian North, and the historical past of Tyumen and Tobolsk. His research results related to the periodization of the integration of the indigenous peoples of Western Siberia into the Russian state, the evolution of their socio-legal status, and terminology used to describe the Siberian population from the 17th to early 20th centuries have been recognized in Russian and international scholarship.

For many years, Dr. Konev has worked on identifying and publishing unique archival documents from the late 16th to 19th centuries related to the history of Siberia. The results of this work have been recognized with a Diploma and Award of the All-Russian Competition in Archival Studies, Documentation Studies, and Archeography (1996), and an Honorary Certificate from the Department of Archives of the Tyumen Region (2016).

Andrey A. Schelchkov has worked at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWH RAS) since 1986. Since 2017, he has held the position of Chief Research Fellow. He holds a degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences (D.Sc., 2005). Dr. Schelchkov is a leading Russian specialist in modern and contemporary history of Latin America, intellectual history, the history of the Comintern, left-wing movements, and Russian–Latin American relations. He has authored several dozen scholarly works, including 15 monographs (among them Social Utopia in Latin America in the 19th Century, Moscow: Aquilon, 2016; Salazar’s Portugal, Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole, 2024), including six published in Bolivia and Chile, as well as chapters in collective volumes (including The History of Bolivia from Ancient Times to the Present, Moscow: Nauka, 2015) and numerous articles in Russian and international academic journals. His book Conservative Social Utopia in Bolivia: The Rule of Manuel Isidoro Belzu (La utopía social conservadora en Bolivia: el gobierno de Manuel Isidoro Belzu), published in Bolivia in 2011, was included in the shortlist of the competition for the 200 best works on the history of Bolivia marking 200 years of independence. He is a member of the Academic Dissertation Councils of the IWH RAS.

Dr. Schelchkov has worked productively for many years in Russian and foreign archives. He is the executive editor and one of the compilers of the two-volume documentary collection The Comintern and Latin America (Komintern y America Latina), published in Moscow and Santiago de Chile in 2018, as well as the documentary collection The History of the Bolivian Left (Historia de las izquierdas bolivianas), published in La Paz (Bolivia) in 2017. In 2025, a documentary collection on Soviet–Chilean relations during the period of Popular Unity (1970–1973), prepared by Dr. Schelchkov, was published in Chile.

Since 2000, Dr. Schelchkov has been the executive editor of the scholarly journal Latinoamerikanskiy Istoricheskiy Almanakh (Latin American Historical Almanac) and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Latin America (Moscow) and Cuadernos de la historia (University of Chile, Santiago de Chile).

He has presented at dozens of major national and international academic forums and public lectures, including talks on the Russian Revolution organized by the office of the Vice President of Bolivia in 2017, on Soviet–Argentine relations at the University of San Martín in Buenos Aires in 2022, and on Soviet assistance to Chile during the government of Salvador Allende at the University of Santiago de Chile in 2023.

Dr. Schelchkov supervises graduate students and teaches a course on the history of Latin America at the State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow)