(born April 6, 1952 in Dushanbe)

1970—1976 — Leningrad State University, Faculty of History.
1975—1977 — senior research fellow, State Museum of History of Leningrad.
11.1977—11.1980 — post-graduate student, Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
12.1980— till nowadays — Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (former Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR); junior research fellow; 07.1986 — research fellow; 12.1992 — senior research fellow; 12.1994 — leading research fellow; 06.2004 — head of the group “The History of Russian Revolutions and Social Movements”; 03.2011 — head of the department of the History of Revolutions and Social Movements of Russia; 06.2013 — director of the Institute.

1990—10.1993 — deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Delegates of Petrograd district of Saint Petersburg.
1980 — Candidate of Sciences in History.
1994 — Doctor of Sciences in History.
Since 1994 — member of the Dissertational Council “Д 002.200.01 СПбИИ РАН”.
Since 2000 — member of the Academic council of the Institute.
Since 2013 — deputy chairman of the Dissertational Council “Д 002.200.01 СПбИИ РАН”.
Academic status: senior research fellow (1995); professor (2012).
Since 1990 — chairman of the North-Western branch of the Scientific Council of the RAS “History of Social Reforms, Movements and Revolutions”.

Monographs:
• III Vserossiyskiy s»ezd Sovetov: istoriya sozyva i raboty. L., 1988;
• Na perelome: rossiyskoe uchitel’stvo nakanune i v dni revolyutsii 1917 goda. SPb., 1994.
Collective works:
• Rabochaya entsiklopediya. 1921—1985 gg. Gl. 1: 20-e gody — vosstanovitel’nyy period. L., 1986 (v soavt. s A.N.Chistikovym);
• Piterskie rabochie i Velikiy Oktyabr’. Gl. 2, § 2; gl. 6. L., 1987.

Selected articles:
• O sostave III Vserossiyskogo s»ezda Sovetov (k istoriografii problemy) // Gosudarstvennye uchrezhdeniya i klassovye otnosheniya v otechestvennoy istorii. Ch. 1. M.; L., 1980;
• Leningradtsy — Geroi truda pervykh pyatiletok (o vyyavlenii dokumentatsii…) // VID. L., 1985. № 16. (v soavt. s A.N.Chistikovym);
• O protokole zasedaniya VTsIK Sovetov rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov ot 9 yanvarya 1918 g. // VID. L., 1985. № 17;
• U istokov sotsialisticheskoy khozyaystvennosti (iz opyta sozdaniya rabochego samoupravleniya na predpriyatiyakh Petrograda v sentyabre 1917 goda // Formirovanie novogo sotsial’nogo oblika rabochego klassa SSSR v perekhodnyy period ot kapitalizma k sotsializmu. L., 1986;
• Internatsional’nyy kharakter revolyutsionnogo tvorchestva piterskikh rabochikh v 1917 g. // Velikiy Oktyabr’ i proletarskiy internatsionalizm. Kishinev, 1998;
• Gosudarstvennyy komitet po narodnomu obrazovaniya (istoriya sozdaniya i deyatel’nosti) // Petrogradskaya intelligentsiya v 1917 godu. M.; L., 1990;
• Uchitel’stvo i obshchestvenno-politicheskoe dvizhenie Rossii v 1917 g. // Rabochie i rossiyskoe obshchestvo v nachale KhKh veka. SPb., 1994;
• Pervye shagi sovetskogo prosveshcheniya v sovremennoy frantsuzskoy istoriografii // Gosudarstvennye instituty i obshchestvennye otnosheniya v Rossii XVIII—{{ vv. v zarubezhnoy istoriografii. SPb., 1994;
• Natsional’nye interesy Rossii: opyt analiza smutnogo vremeni // Tsivilizovannoe politicheskoe prostranstvo: federal’nye i regional’nye vlasti. M., 1995;
• The Soviets // Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914—1921. London, 1997;
• The Constituent Assembly // Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914—1921. London, 1997;
• Town and City Government // Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution // Indiana University Press, 1998;
• Sovety i Uchreditel’noe sobranie: dve vozmozhnye formy parlamentarizma // 1917 god i rossiyskiy parlamentarizm. SPb., 1998;
• Rossiyskaya intelligentsiya: k voprosu o definitsiyakh // Istorik i revolyutsiya. SPb., 1999;
• Narodnoe prosveshchenie v epokhu vremennogo pravitel’stva // The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 1999. V. 24. № 1—2;
• IV Gosudarstvennaya duma nakanune Fevral’skoy revolyutsii // Zakonodatel’naya vlast’: Istoriya i sovremennost’ (k 95-letiyu nachala raboty I Gosudarstvennoy dumy). M., 2001;
• Predislovie // Vlast’ i nauka, uchenye i vlast’: 1880-e—nachalo 1920-kh gg. (Materialy mezhdunarodnogo nauchnogo kollokviuma). Otv. redaktor. SPb., 2003;
• K voprosu o diplomaticheskoy priznanii Rossii posle Fevral’skoy revolyutsii // Istoricheskiy opyt revolyutsii 1917 g. Samara, 2004;
• Fevral’skaya revolyutsiya i «ukrainskiy vopros» // «Ukrainskiy vopros» i revolyutsionnye sobytiya v Rossii. SPb., 2006;
• Frantsiya, Velikobritaniya i russkie emigranty // Otechestvennaya istoriya i istoricheskaya mysl’ v Rossii XIX—KhKh vekov. SPb., 2006;
• Revolyutsionnaya Rossiya i soyuzniki vesnoy 1917 goda // Sankt-Peterburgskiy mezhdunarodnyy letniy kul’turno-istoricheskiy universitet. SPb., 2008;
• Politicheskie krizisy 1917 goda v Rossii: fenomen aprelya // Tam zhe;
• K voprosu o politicheskikh krizisakh 1917 g. v Rossii // Rossiya: KhKh vek. M., 2009;
• Iyul’skie sobytiya 1917 g. v Finlyandii: popytka provozglasheniya nezavisimosti // Reformy i vlast’. Tomsk, 2009;
• Suomen suuriruhtinaskunta Ranskan ja Venajan suhteissa vuonna 1917 // Suomi ja Venaja. 1808—1809. Suomalais-venalaisissa historiantutkijoiden symposiumeissa Moskovassa vuonna 2007 ja Haminassa vuonna 2009 pidetyt esitelmat… Helsinki, 2010;
• Slovo o kollege, uchenom i uchitele // Noveyshaya istoriya Rossii. 2011. № 1;
• Vizit A.Toma v Rossiyu (aprel’—iyun’ 1917 g.) // Rossiya. Vek dvadtsatyy. SPb., 2011;
• Rossiyskaya revolyutsiya 1917 g. v kontekste sovremennykh otechestvennykh istoricheskikh issledovaniy // Rossiyskaya istoriya XIX—XX vekov: Gosudarstvo i obshchestvo. Sobytiya i lyudi. Sb. statey. SPb.: Liki Rossii, 2013;
• Nesostoyavshayasya missiya: iz istorii franko-russkikh otnosheniy 1917 g. // Tam zhe;
• Dvadtsat’ let sotrudnichestva (iz istorii peterburgskikh mezhdunarodnykh nauchnykh kollokviumov) // Chelovek i lichnost’ v istorii Rossii: konets XIX– XKh v. SPb, 2013. S.25-36;
• K voprosu o «plombirovannom vagone» // Russkaya revolyutsiya 1917 goda: problemy istorii i istoriografii. Sb. statey. SPb., 2013;
• Vserossiyskoe Uchreditel’noe sobranie; Gorod i gorodskoe upravlenie; Sovety // Kriticheskiy slovar’ russkoy revolyutsii: 1914—1921: Entsiklopediya. SPb.: Blits, 2014;
• Twenty five years of scholarly collaboration: The International Russian History Colloguium of the St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAS // Peterburgskiy istoricheskiy zhurnal. № 1. 2014;
• O perspektivnykh napravleniyakh nauchnykh issledovaniy v oblasti istoricheskikh nauk na primere Sankt-Peterburgskogo instituta istorii Rossiyskoy akademii nauk // V kn.: Perspektivnye napravleniya razvitiya nauki v Peterburge. SPb., 2015. S.509-513;
• Mezhdistsiplinarnyy nauchno-teoreticheskiy zhurnal «Noveyshaya istoriya Rossii» // Rossiyskaya istoriya. 2015. № 1, S. 142-147;
• Professor G. L. Sobolev i leningradskaya shkola istorikov Rossiyskoy revolyutsii 1917 g. // Noveyshaya istoriya Rossii. 2015. № 2, S.7-18. (V soavtorstve s V.A. Rachkovskim).
School-books:
• Programma i metodicheskie rekomendatsii kursa «Istoriya Rossii KhKh veka». SPb., 1999.
In total published more than 90 works.

Awards:
• Medal «В память 300-летия Санкт-Петербурга» (2004).

Magistral activity:
1994—1996 — the Faculty of History of Saint Petersburg State University;
1996—2008 — professor, Department of History of Russia and Foreign Countries, Republican Humanitarian Institute of Saint Petersburg State University;
Since 2008 — professor, Department of Modern History of Russia, the Faculty of History of Saint Petersburg State University.