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On November 23, 2004 the Dean of the Faculty of History of PetrSU Sergey Verigin and director of Federal Official Body of Culture "State Historical and Architectural Memorial Estate "Kizhi" Elvira Averianova have signed the Agreement on ceating a branch of the Chair of history of pre-revolutionary Russia "Historical Study of Local Lore and Museology of the Russian North" in FOBC "State Historical and Architectural Memorial Estate "Kizhi".
Chairs:
- Chair of world history
- Chair of history of pre-revolutionary Russia
- Chair of home history (post-Revolutionary period)
- Chair of history of countries of Northern Europe
- Chair of archive administration and special historical disciplines
The faculty of history provides specialists in history and foreign languages. The graduates of the faculty also work in governmental bodies and trade unions, in newspapers and magazines, on television and radio, in printing houses, archives, museums and other cultural and educational institutions.
The faculty has three chairs, namely: Chair of history of pre-revolutionary Russia, Chair of home history (post-Revolutionary period), Chair of world history, as well as the Laboratory on the problems of the Scandinavian countries and Finland, Investigative Laboratory for Local and Microhistory of Karelia (ILLMiK) and the "The Russian North" Research Center.
The students are offered to choose one of the following majors: "history", "history and English", "history of Finland and Scandinavian countries". In 1996 a new major "Document-studies and documentational provision for management" has been introduced.
The main trends of research work include the problems of history and culture of the European North of Russia, history of Finland and Scandinavian countries and historiography of the world history. Some faculty members work on such complex research themes, as "The Peoples of Russia: Revival and Progress", "Finns in Karelia", "Contemporary Russian Emigration in Finland" etc. They participate in seminars, symposia, conferences of different levels, including international, and the results of their work are regularly published in Russia and abroad.
Every year the faculty organizes important international scientific conferences. In 1997 under the auspices of the faculty the XIIIth International scientific conference on history, economics, languages and culture of Scandinavian countries and Finland in which about 180 scientists from Russia, Western and Northern Europe, the USA and Canada had participated.
At present the faculty works on creating a scientific educational Center on history and culture of the countries of Northern Europe.
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