Rudolph Grigorjevich Yanovskiy (Russian: Рудольф Григорьевич Яновский) (born June 16, 1929, in

Suzdal Suzdal ( rus, Суздаль, p=ˈsuzdəlʲ) is a town that serves as the administrative center of Suzdalsky District in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, which is located on the Kamenka River, north of the city of Vladimir. Vladimir is the admin ...

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; died January 13, 2010) was a Russian

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, corresponding member of the

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(from 1991), President of the All-Russian Scientific Association of Sociologists and Demographers, full member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the editorial board of ''the Bezopasnost Evrazii'' (''Eurasia’s Security'') journal. He was a top authority on

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, the

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of social consciousness, the formation, intellectual and moral development of an individual with a special emphasis on women's socio-political status. From 1991, he was employed by the

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under the Russian Academy of Sciences as a top scientist. He was head of the Sociology Department for National Security and Federalism and head of the National Security Centre.

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The Russian Academy of SciencesObituary
(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Yanovskiy, Rudolph 1929 births 2010 deaths Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union People from Suzdal Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russian sociologists Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery