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of the description of each of these 32 institutes will broaden the readers
understanding of the value of the treasures collected, analyzed, and stored in these
institutes.
History Department Research Institutes:
Research institutes directly subordinate to the History Department are listed below in the
order of the date of their establishment:
1. N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Ethnography Institute in Moscow.
Located on Leninskii ave., 32a, Moscow, 117993. tel. 938-17-93. (E-Mail:
anthpub@iea.msk.su) Directed by Professor Valerii A. Tishkov. tel.
938-17-47.
Retrospect: Precursors to this institute may be traced back to the establishment of the first
museum in 1714 under Peter the Great--the Kunstkamera or the Chamber of
Curiosities. Following the Revolution of 1917, a Commission for the study of the
Tribal Composition of the Population of Russia and Adjoining Lands was
organized, and in 1930, the Institute for the Study of the Peoples of the USSR was
established. In 1933, the Institute of Anthropology, Archeology, and Ethnography
of the AN SSSR was founded in St. Petersburg, that also incorporated the Museum
of Anthropology and Ethnography and the Institute for the Study of the Peoples of
Russia. In 1937, in coniunction with the establishment of the Institute of the
History of Material Culture, the Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnography was
established. Its Directors have been: N. N. Motorin (1930-33), I. I. Meshchaninov
(1933-37), V. V. Struve (1937-40), I. N. Vinnikov (1941), S. M. Abramzon
(1941-42), S. P. Tolstov (1942-66), Iurii V. Bromlei (1966-89), and since, 1989,
the institute has been headed by V. A. Tishkov. With a staff of some 180
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