In the first week of July 2016 (from July, 4 till July, 8) Scientific and historical archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (SPbIH) received a group of students from the Institute of history, political and social sciences of Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU).

More than a decade ago docent (associate professor) of PetrSU Candidate of Sciences in History Irina Aleksandrovna Chernyakova, who had finished post-graduate course at Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR, stated a problem for coming years, to train a new generation of professional historians specializing in the history of Karelia of the Modern era, who had to possess all the expertise and skills to study written documents of the past.

In order to fulfill this task I.A. Chernyakova regarded it crucial for students of the Faculty of history of PetrSU to get the skills to read Russian script of 16^th-17^th centuries (skoropis) and to study documentation of this period. She regarded study of the documents of the archival fund “Olonetskaya voevodskaya izba (1649—1702)” as a gateway which should help students to assess their potential and aspiration in profession.

This year the most successful students, who had finished the course on Russian paleography, arrived in Saint Petersburg to study different types of the original documents composed by people of Olonets region around 350 years ago. For the first time students were able to see originals and to study how to distinguish and discern one kind of statement from another.

Practical training was combined with lectures on history of the Archaeographic Commission, scholarly and collector’s activities of academician N.P. Likhachev, problems and methods of contemporary archaeography, Russian and foreign manuscripts from the funds of Scientific and historical archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Latin paleography and West-European sigillography. The lectures were delivered by D. Sc. in History Z.V. Dmitrieva, Cand. Sc. in History T.A. Bazarova, Cand. Sc. in History A.V. Chirkova, Cand. Sc. in History M.E. Proskuryakova, Cand. Sc. in History E.I. Nosova, while practical training has conducted Cand. Sc. in History M.E. Proskuryakova.

Special attention should be paid to high level of commitment of students sustained from year to year when some of them who have undergone this workshop come again to study documents of the 17^th century in the frame of personal curriculum. One may suppose that some years later they will reinforce a group of scholars studying the history of Karelia.

Dear visitors!

The reading hall of Scientific and historical archive of SPbIH RAS will be closed since July 4 till September 6, 2016.

Friends and colleagues congratulate leading researcher, Doctor of Sciences in History Zoya Vasilievna Dmitrieva. Well-recognized specialist in economic history of Russia, source studies and archaeography Zoya Vasilievna Dmitrieva, being a disciple of Aleksandr Lvovich Shapiro, preserves the best features of Petersburg school of historical studies. Her scientific works, including seven monographs, fundamental publications of administrative documents of monasteries and school-books are well-known both in Russia and abroad.
At this day we express to you, Zoya Vasilievna, our admiration and gratitude for your participation in the institute’s activities.

The West European section of the Archaeographic Commission of the RAS and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcome everyone to the sessions of the 6th O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya Memorial Scientific Readings. The will take place on June 24, 2016 at 10.30 in Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; conference hall).

Dear colleagues!
On June 24, 2016 there was the first session scientific seminar “Russia in 19^th – beginning of 20^th century: state and society” that will be conducted by the department of Modern History of Russia of SPbIH RAS.
The first session was combined with round-table meeting timed to 220-year anniversary of emperor Nicholas I.

On the occasion of 85-year anniversary of academician B.V. Ananich Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Institute of Russian History of the RAS, Scientific Council of the RAS on Problems of Russian and World Economic History, Joint Scientific Council on Social Science and the Humanities of Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the RAS on June 20-21, 2016 carried out International scientific conference “Russia and the world at the end of the 19^th–first half of the 20^th century”.

On June, 20 the conference was held at Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the RAS (Universitetskaya emb., 5) and on June, 21 it took place at Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7).

Forty five reports by leading scholars from the Great Britain, the US, Finland, Germany and scientific institutions of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Omsk, Novgorod, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk have been delivered throughout the conference sessions.

At Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS small exhibition of scientific works and photographs of B.V. Ananich has been opened.

Nina Ivanovna Ananich has prepared a collection of memoirs “Boris Vasilievich Ananich. How we remember him” (“Boris Vasilievich Ananich. Kakim my yego pomnim”).

European University in Saint Petersburg and Saint Petersburg Institute of History on June 15-16 carried out International conference “Topical questions of the history of the Leningrad blockade” timed to 100-year anniversary of well-known Russian historian Valentin Mikhailovich Kovalchuk. The exhibition of scientific works and personal documents of V.M. Kovalchuk was open during the conference sessions.