Milestones of the Department of History
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Department of History of Ural Federal University was established in 1938, then still at the Gorky Sverdlovsk State University. Over the eight decades of its existence, the Department of History has been famous for its fundamental scientific works, famous graduates, has become the basis for the Department of Philosophy and International Relations, the centre that unites scientists of different specialties in search of truth. To learn how historical science developed in the Urals over half a century, one can read Galina Kulagina's book ‘Witness of the Century’ – a kind of memoirs and reflections on time, people and herself. During the Great Patriotic War, many students and teachers of the Department of History went to defend the Motherland. The current students of the History Department honour their memory to this day and believe that their scientific research will serve the cause of peace. Anatoly Chernoukhov's book ‘The History Department of Sverdlovsk University, 1938-1945’ is devoted to the life of the department during the war years.
The year 1958 divided the life of the History Department into ‘before’ and ‘after’. This year the first Crimean archaeological expedition was held! Since then, first-year students dream of going to the Crimea in the summer. If you were not included in the expedition, we advise you to turn to the collection of works ‘Byzantine Etudes’ by Mikhail Syuzyumov, the father of Ural Byzantine studies.
The 1980s-1990s were a controversial time in the history of our country. Science in this period began to explore previously closed areas, but scientists had to somehow survive in the new realities. The book ‘To Breathe Freedom’, a collection of memoirs about Yuri Kiryakov, who headed the Department of History in 1985-1990, tells about those difficult but exciting times.
Proof that the History Department has survived all the hard times is the work by Vladimir Babintsev, Dean of the History Department from 2007 to 2019. Thanks to his translation work, Russian readers have become acquainted with Jacques Le Goff's The Other Middle Ages, Victor Serge's From Revolution to Totalitarianism, Philippe Ariès's The Child and Family Life under the Old Order, and others.
All the books mentioned can be borrowed at the Liberal Arts & Humanities Circulation Desk (4 Turgeneva Street, Room 252) of Ural Federal University Library or check their availability in the electronic catalogue.
Author: Michael Ryzhkov
Translator: Anastasiia Smorkalova |