Vladimir Petrukhin

Biographyhttp://www.inslav.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=821:2011-08-29-08-27-18&catid=12:2009-08-05-10-49-56&Itemid=22 Vladimir Petrukhin, http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/english official website of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.http://sefer.ru/rus/education/educational_programmes/vladimir_petruhin.php Vladimir Petrukhin, http://www.sefer.ru/eng/about/ official website of the Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"

• 1957–1965 – First High School in Pushkino.
• 1962–1967 – Young Archaeologists Club in Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow.
• 1967 – graduated from Fifth High School in Pushkino with a silver medal.
• 1967–1972 – student of Faculty of History of the Moscow State University.
• 1972 – graduated from the Faculty of History, qualification as historian, teacher of history and social science with knowledge of foreign language.
• 1972–1975 – postgraduate student at the Department of Archeology of Faculty of History.
• 1975 – defended a candidate thesis The Funeral Cult of Pagan Scandinavia ; academic degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences was conferred.
• 1975–1992 – superior editor, scientific editor, senior scientific editor in the Editorial Office of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Editorial Office of World History of publisher "Soviet Encyclopedia".
• 1991–2004 – professor of Dubnov Higher School for the Humanities.
• since 1992 – superior, senior, chief research fellow of Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• 1994 – defended a doctoral thesis The Problems of Ethnic and Cultural History of Slavs and Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries in Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies; academic degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences was conferred.
• since 1992 – member of the academic council of .
• 1997–2015 professor of the Department of Russian History of Middle Ages and Modern Period in History and Archives Institute in the Russian State University for the Humanities.
• 2004 – Ministry of Education of Russia conferred to Vladimir Petrukhin the academic status of professor in the Department of Russian History of Ancient World and Middle Ages.
• since 2008 – professor of School of History in Faculty of Humanities in Higher School of Economics.

Researches

• Vladimir Petrukhin takes part in many Russian and international historical, archaeological and ethnographic projects, including interdisciplinary expeditions to study of Slavic and Jewish history and culture; he also is a coordinator of projects for preservation and study of the Khazarian and Jewish historical and cultural artefacts in Dubnov Higher School for the Humanities of the Russian Jewish Congress.
• Member of editorial boards of some journals: "Bulletin of Jewish University", "Slavic Studies", "Living Antiquity", "Problems of Art", almanac "Parallels", "Khazarian Almanac" ; many collected articles and other scientific publications.
• Member of organizing committees of several Russian and international conferences on Russian and Khazarian history and archaeology and also Eastern European ethnography.
• In Russian State University for the Humanities since 1997, Vladimir Petrukhin gives courses of lectures on the early history of Russia, special courses on religious antiquities, ethnogenesis and early history of the Slavs; he manages an archaeological field practice of students. In Dubnov Higher School for the Humanities, he gives courses of lectures on the history of Russia in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, on introduction to archaeology, he also manages an archaeological field practice of students. In the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Moscow State University), he gives a special course "Khazars and the Early History of the Jews in Eastern Europe".
• Vladimir Petrukhin is an author of more than 500 research works, published from 1973 to the present time, among them he took part in the work for the "Slavic Antiquities. Ethnolinguistic Dictionary" ; an author of several popular scientific books.

  Main publications

Monographs, co-authorship and popular scientific publications

• The Beginning of Ethnic and Cultural History of Rus in the 9th–11th Centuries / Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies. Smolensk ; Moscow, 1995. 317 p..
• From Genesis to Exodus : the Biblical Subjects in Jewish and Slavic Folk Culture : Collected Articles / Sefer. Academic series ; editor-in-chief is Vladimir Petrukhin. Moscow, 1998. Issue 2..
• Old Rus. Moscow, 2000. 48 p...
• Slavs : Textbook for Additional Education. Moscow, 2002. 112 p..
• The Origins of Russia : Historical Stories / V. Petrukhin, A. Toroptsev. Moscow, 2002. 132 p.. First edition : Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century / N. Golb a. O. Pritsak. Ithaca; London : Cornell Univ. Press, 1982..
• Essays on the History of the Peoples of Russia in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : Manual for Humanitarian Faculties / Vladimir Petrukhin, Dmitry Rayevsky. Moscow, 2004. 415 p. ).
• Myths of Finno-Ugric Peoples. Moscow, 2005. 463 p..
• Migration Period / Vladimir Petrukhin and others. Moscow, 2005. 179 p..
• Old Rus. From 9th Century to 1263. Moscow, 2005. 190 p..
• Origin Myths. Moscow, 2005. 464 p..
• Before the Invasion. Moscow, 2005. 179 p..
• Christianization of Rus : from Paganism to Christianity. Moscow, 2006. 222 p..
• Old Rus. Moscow, 2008. 95 p..
• The "Jewish Myth" in the Slavic Culture / Olga Belova, Vladimir Petrukhin. Moscow ; Jerusalem, 2008. 568 p..
• Folklore and Book-Learning : Myth and Historical Reality / Olga Belova, Vladimir Petrukhin ; Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies. Moscow, 2008. 262 p..
• Underworld : Myths of Different Peoples. Yekaterinburg, 2010. 414 p. ; Idem. Moscow, 2010. 414 p..
• The History of the Jewish People in Russia. Moscow ; Jerusalem, 2010...
• The Myths Of Ancient Scandinavia. Moscow, 2011. 463 p..
• "Rus and All the Peoples" : the Aspects of Historical Relationships : Historical and Archaeological Essays. Moscow, 2011. 384 p..
• Khazaria in Cross-Cultural Space : the Historical Geography of Fortress Architecture, the Choice of Faith / Tatyana Kalinina, Valery Flyorov, Vladimir Petrukhin. Moscow, 2014. 208 p..
• Rus in the 9th–10th Centuries. From Varangians Invitation to the Сhoice of Faith / 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Moscow, 2014. 464 p..

  Some articles

• Melnikova, Elena. Petrukhin, Vladimir. "The Legend of the Varangians Invitation" in Comparative Historical Perspective // 11th All-Union Conference on the Study of History, Economics, Literature and Language of the Scandinavian Countries and Finland / ed. by Yury Andreev and others. – Moscow, 1989. – Issue 1. – P. 108–110..
• Древо жизни: Библейский образ и славянский фольклор // Живая старина. – 1997. – № 1. – С. 8–9.
• Дунайская предыстория славян и начальная Русь // Истоки русской культуры : Археология и лингвистика. – М., 1997. – С. 139–144.
• «От тех варяг прозвася…» // Родина. – 1997. – № 10. – С. 12–16.
• Походы Руси на Царьград: К проблеме достоверности летописи // Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье: Материалы конф. … – М., 1997. – С. 65–70.
• Мельникова Е.А., Петрухин В.Я. Русь и чудь: К проблеме этнокультурных контактов Восточной Европы и Балтийского региона в 1 -м тыс. н. э. // Балтославянские исследования, 1988–1996. – М., 1997. – С. 40–51.
• Большие курганы Руси и Северной Европы: К проблеме этнокультурных связей в раннесредневековый период // Историческая археология: традиции и перспективы. – М., 1998. – С. 361–369.
• К дохристианским истокам древнерусского княжеского культа // ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΝ: К 70-летию В. Н. Топорова. – М., 1998. – С. 882–892.
• Выбор веры: Летописный сюжет и исторические реалии // Древнерусская культура в мировом контексте: археология и междисциплинарные исследования: Материалы конф. … – М., 1999. – С. 73–85.
• Древняя Русь: Народ. Князья. Религия // Из истории русской культуры. – М.: Яз. рус. культуры, 2000. – Т. I:. – С. 13–410. –.
• «Боги и бесы» русского средневековья: род, рожаницы и проблема древнерусского двоеверия // Славянский и балканский фольклор. Народная демонология / Отв. ред. С.М. Толстая. – М., 2000. – С. 314–343.
• // Древнейшиие государства Восточной Европы. 1999 г. Восточная и Северная Европа в средневековье / Отв. ред. Г.В. Глазырина ; Отв. секретарь С.Л. Никольский ; . – М.: Вост. лит., 2001 – С. 127–142..
• // Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики. – 2008. – № 2. – С. 41–46.
• on website of Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen.

  Videos of lectures

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• // Исторический Лекторий.
• // Сатановский Евгений Янович.
• // Летняя школа по еврейской этнографии и эпиграфике в Глубоком. 22–30 июля 2015 г. Sefer.
• // Конференция Центра Сэфер и Центра славяно-иудаики Института славяноведения РАН «Норма и аномалия в славянской и еврейской культурной традиции». 2–4 декабря 2015 г.
• . Colloquium "Religious Intolerance and Anti-Judaism Discourses in the Christian Culture of the West and the East of Europe in the Middle Ages", December 9, 2015, Moscow, Higher School of Economics.
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