A Guide to the Russian Academy of Sciences - University of Texas ...

(Scientific-systematic direction is carried out jointly by DH and by DLL)
Bersenevskaia quay, 20, Moscow, 109072, tel. 230-01-77
Directed by Prof. Kirill Em. Rozlogov, tel. 230-01-77
National History Research Effort:
In addition to the 11 research institutes directly subordinate to the History Department of the
RAS there are another 25 research institutes located in other areas of the former
Soviet Union that do research in the same fields as the institutes iust cited.
Early Institutes
1. M. T. Aibeka Museum of the History of the Peoples of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. 2. G.
Ibragimova Language, Literature and History Institute in Kazan'. 3. I. A.
Dzhavakhishvili History, Archeology and Ethnography Institute in Tbilisi. No date
given for founding. This institute is a major center of anthropological study in the
republic. The institute also houses the Department of Concrete Sociological Research
which conducts studies of family relations and development in Georgiia. Its library,
founded in 1917 as the Library of the Caucasian Historico-Archeological Institute,
contains the personal libraries of former eminent professors. 4. History Institute in
Kiev. 5. History, Language and Literature Institute in Makhachkala. Derived from
the Institute of Daghestani Culture in Makhachkala founded in 1924, expanded and
renamed the Scientific Research of National Cultures until 1945 when it came under
its present name. 6. Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the
Peoples of the Far East in Vladivostok. 7. History Institute in Tashkent.
1940s
8. Museum of Ethnography in Tartu. Probably dates to 1945 with the founding of the
academy. 9. History Institute in Baku. 10. History Institute in Riga. 11. Ch. Ch.
Valikhanova History, Archeology and Ethnography Institute in Alma-Ata. Shortly
after the organization of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences in 1946, an ethnography
section was established that has become the center of anthropological research in the
republic. 12. Language, Literature and History Institute in Petrozavodsk. No date
given for founding in source. 13. Language, Literature and History Institute in
Syktyvkar. No date for founding given in source. 14. History Institute in Minsk.
No date given in source. 15. History Institute in Vilnius. The institute offers the
Candidate of Science degree with specializations in the History of the USSR and in
Archeology. It was from this institute that the Department of Philosophy, Law and
Sociology was taken to be given institute status. 16. History Institute in Tallinn. No
date of founding given in source. 17. History Institute in Frunze. No date of
founding given in source. 18. Akhmada Donisha History Institute in Dushanbe. 19.
Sh. B. Batyrova History Institute in Ashkhabad. 20. History, Language and
Literature Institute in Ufa. 21. Art Studies, Ethnography and Folklore Institute in
Minsk. 22. Archeology and Ethnography Institute in Erevan. In 1959, the
Archeology sector and the ethnography group of the Institute of History were
combined to form a separate Institute of Archeology and Ethnography within the
Armenian Academy of Sciences. 23. History Institute in Kishinev. 24. Department
of Ethnography and Art in Kishinev. 25. Archeology Institute in Samarkand.
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