Vitalii Gennad’evich Ananiev
is Associate Professor (
Dmitrii Andreevich Barinov
is Research Fellow at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Russian History at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. His research interests include the history of higher education and of the student movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of the Left Opposition within the All-Russian Communist (Bolshevik) Party. His current research focuses on the student underground groups in Petrograd-Leningrad during the 1920s. His recent publications include:
Mikhail Dmitrievich Bukharin
is Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Chief Research Fellow (
Lutz Häfner
earned his PhD in modern East European history from Hamburg University in 1992. He has taught at the Universities of Bielefeld, Leipzig, Gießen, and Göttingen. His publications include Society as Local Event: The Volga Cities Kazan’ and Saratov (Cologne: Böhlau, 2004). He is currently working on viticulture in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as on the project “Man, City, Water: Health and Environment in the Moskva-Volga River System (1860s to 1941)”.
Valery Valerievich Levchenko
is Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Studies, Historical, Legal and Language Disciplines of Odessa National Maritime University (Ukraine). His research interests focus on intellectual history, historiography, archival collections of Russian and Soviet scientists, history of science and higher education in Russia and abroad, including relationships between scientific intelligentsia and state authorities. His recent works include: «“
Andrei Borisovich Nikolaev
is Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian History at The Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg. He is a specialist in the history of the Russian Revolution of 1917. His major recent works include:
Sergiy Ivanovich Posokhov
is Professor and Chair of the Department of Historiography, Source Studies and Archaeology at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine). His research interests include the history of higher education during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, historiography, and urban studies. He is the author of “
Evgenii Anatol’evich Rostovtsev
is Professor at the Department of Russian History of St. Petersburg State University. His research interests focus on the history of higher education in Russia, historiography and historical memory. He is the lead researcher and director of several major projects, including: “History of St. Petersburg University in Virtual Space” and “Russian History in the Mirror of Mass Historical Consciousness, 1991–2020.” His recent publications include:
Tatjana Kuzminichna Shor
is an independent scholar from Tartu (Estonia). Her research interests include Estonia-Russian cultural space and the history of Dorpat/Iur’ev/Tartu University. She was a contributor to these recent publications: «
Pavel Aleksandrovich Tribunskii
is Senior Researcher at the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad and the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His field of expertise is the history of Russian liberalism, archival collections of Russian historians, the history of science, the history of Russian Studies, and the history of Russian-language publishing houses abroad. His recent significant publications include:
Ekaterina Iur’evna Zharova
is Research Fellow at the S. I. Vavilov Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technology of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg. Her scholarly interests include the history of higher education, social history of science and history of natural sciences. Her current research focuses on the visual history of science, history of experimental science and culture as well as the history of veterinary studies in Russian universities. Her most recent publications include, “Historical evidence of the European mink Mustella Lutreola (L.) presence in Białowieża Primeval Forest in the 19th century” (