The Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (

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: Институт славяноведения РАН) is an integral part of the Historical and Philological Studies Department of the

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. It is a unique Russian academic institution focused on comprehensive studies of Slavic history, culture, literature, and languages. The Institute carries on the traditions of Russian Slavic scholars that have evolved over the last two centuries.

History

The Institute was founded in 1947 as the Institute for Slavic and Balcan Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Since 1997, the Institute has its current name. Amongst the researchers of the Institute were

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Yulian Bromley Yulian Vladimirovich Bromley (russian: Юлиа́н Влади́мирович Бромле́й; 21 February 1921 – 4 June 1990) was a Soviet and Russian anthropologist who gained an international recognition. He became Director of the Inst ...

, Nikolay Derzhavin,

Boris Grekov Boris Dmitrievich Grekov (; in Mirgorod, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 9 September 1953 in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet historian noted for his comprehensive studies of Kievan Rus and the Golden Horde. He was a member of the Sovi ...

, Gennady Litavrin, Dmitry Markov,

Leonid Milov Leonid Milov (Russian: Леонид Васильевич Милов; 28 July 1929, Moscow - 17 November 2007, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet and Russian historian. He worked at the Faculty of History in Lomonosov Moscow State University. Life a ...

, Sergey Obnorsky, Vladimir Picheta, Yury Pisarev,

Mikhail Tikhomirov Mikhail Nikolayevich Tikhomirov (russian: Михаи́л Николáевич Тихоми́ров; 31 May 1893 — 2 September 1965) was a leading Soviet specialist in medieval Russian paleography. Tikhomirov was born and spent his whole life in M ...

, Nikita Tolstoy,

Vladimir Toporov Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Топоро́в; 5 July 1928 in Moscow5 December 2005 in Moscow) was a leading Russian philologist associated with the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school. His wife was ...

, and

Oleg Trubachyov Oleg Nikolayevich Trubachyov (also transliterated as Trubachev or Trubačev, russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Трубачёв; 23 October 1930, in Stalingrad – 9 March 2002, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian linguist. A res ...

; Corresponding Members of the

: Tatiana Nikolaeva, Petr Tretyakov, Zinaida Udaltsova, and

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Vladimir Dybo Vladimir Antonovich Dybo (russian: Влади́мир Анто́нович Дыбо́; born 30 April 1931) is a Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor Nauk in Philological Sciences (1979), Professor (1992), Academician of the Russian Academy of Scie ...

, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Andrey A. Zaliznyak; Foreign Member of the

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Anatolij A. Turilov; and Corresponding Members of the

: Aleksey Gippius and Boris Floria. The principal lines of research at the Institute are as follows: * Historico-cultural and ethnic studies of the Slavs and their neighbors; ethnogenesis of the Slavs; * Research into and maintenance of cultural traditions; Slavic booklore; archival heritage of Slavic scholars; history of Slavic studies; * Tradition and modernization; social and national movements; foreign affairs and military conflicts in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; * Reception of Russian culture by Slavic cultures and reception of Slavic cultures by Russia; * Comparative study of Slavic culture, literature, and folklore; * Typological, contrastive, and comparative study of Ancient and Modern Slavic, Balkan, and Baltic languages and dialects; ethnolinguistics.

Academic journals, yearbooks, and periodicals

The Institute for Slavic Studies publishes several

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s and periodicals: ''Slavianovedenie'' ''Slavianovedenie'' (

: ''Славяноведение'', ISSN 0132-1366) is an

published six times a year since 1965 (before 1992, ''Sovetskoe Slavianovedenie''). Issues of the journal since 1965 till 2009 are available free on the website of the Institute. ''Slověne'' ''Slověne = Словѣне. International Journal of Slavic Studies'' (pISSN 2304-0785, eISSN 2305-6754) is a biannual

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since 2012. ''Slavic Almanac'' (

: ''Славянский альманах'', ISSN 2073-5731) is published since 1997. ''Slavic World in the Third Millennium'' (

: ''Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии'') is a yearbook published since 2006. ''Archaeographic Yearbook'' (

: ''Археографический ежегодник'') has been published since 1957 by the

Archaeographic Commission The Archaeographic Commission (Археографическая комиссия) was set up in St. Petersburg in 1834 by Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Nikolay Ustryalov, and Pavel Stroyev with the aim of publishing historical and ethnographic mat ...

Other yearbooks and periodicals

* ''The Slavic Linguistic Atlas'' (

: ''Общеславянский лингвистический атлас'') * ''Khazarian Almanac'' (

: ''Хазарский альманах'') * ''The Library of the Institute for Slavic Studies'' (

: ''Библиотека Института славяноведения РАН'') * ''Belarus and Ukraine: History and Culture'' (

: ''Белоруссия и Украина: история и культура'') * ''Studies in Slavic Dialectology'' (

: ''Исследования по славянской диалектологии'')

References

External links

* {{authority control Organizations based in Moscow Research institutes in Russia Organizations established in 1947 Slavic studies Research institutes in the Soviet Union Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences Balkan studies