Chubaryan Alexander Oganovich: Biography

As you know, history is a science that is most dependent on "times and morals". Those who choose to study it with the work of the whole life, are forced to reckon with this. Especially difficult is the scientists, whose activities fall on periods of dramatic changes in the political and economic course of the state where they live.

One of those who successfully passed the test, having retained the face and respect of his colleagues, including abroad, is Academician Chubaryan.

A family

Chubaryan Alexander Oganovich was born in Moscow, in 1931, in an Armenian family. The father of the historian, Ogan Stepanovich, was a librarian, well known in scientific circles, far beyond the borders of the Soviet Union. OS Chubaryan wrote many books, had a doctorate in pedagogy. For 10 years he served as the editor-in-chief of the collection of the "Library of the USSR", and from 1969 to 1972 there was also. about. Director of the Lenin Library. An interesting fact - while on treatment in a hospital in besieged Leningrad, the young scientist regularly ran from there to look for information in the library to them for a couple of hours. M. Saltykov-Shchedrin for his dissertation on the appearance of the first technical books of Russia in the era of Peter the Great.

Study

In 1955, Chubaryan Alexander Oganovich graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University with honors, and after 4 - postgraduate study at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. For his thesis and thesis for the degree of candidate of science, the young scientist chose a topic that reveals some details of the signing of the Brest Peace of 1918.

Career

In 1958, Chubaryan AO was enlisted as a junior research fellow at the Institute of History (IWI RAS). There he worked until 2015, that is, more than 57 years. The last 18 scientists were directors of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1971, Chubaryan became a doctor of historical sciences. His thesis concerned the study of Lenin's role in the formation of Soviet foreign policy.

Among other scientific and career achievements of Alexander Oganovich, one can name activities as a scientific secretary of the history department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, teaching at MGIMO and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1994, Chubaryan Alexander Oganovich became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academician from 2000).

Public and scientific activities

For many years the scientist was vice-president of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, a member of the Commission dealing with issues of religious associations, co-chairman of the working group of Russian and Austrian historians, the first rector of the Moscow State Agrarian University, etc.

Books and publications

Chubaryan AO is the author of more than three hundred and fifty scientific works. Among them, the book "The European Idea in History in the 19th and 20th Centuries" (published in English and German translations in Great Britain and Germany), "The Brest Peace", "Europe in the 20th Century: History and Prospects", etc., attracted special interest.

In 2006, a textbook of history was published under the authorship of A. Chubaryan, E. Pivovar and A. Danilov. He became the subject of controversy among educators and public figures. The fact is that some reviewers saw in it a return to the political views that emerged in the 1920s. In particular, according to critics of the textbook, one of the authors of which is Alexander Chubaryan, the history of the USSR during the cult of personality in it is shown as the result of class struggle, which grows as the country moves to socialism.

Order

The merits of the scientist before the country and the world historical science have been repeatedly noted by high domestic and foreign state awards. In particular, Chubaryan Alexander Oganovich is a Knight of the Orders:

• "Sign of Honor" (1976);
• The French Legion of Honor;
• "For services to the Fatherland" (2006, 4th degree);
• "St. Gregory the Sixth" (Vatican);
• German officer's cross;
• Order of Honor (Russian Federation) (1999).

Today, despite a very advanced age, the scientist continues his research work. Unlike most of his conservative peers, he considers the Internet a gift and actively uses this tool. At the moment, his scientific interests include the problems of humanitarian knowledge in our country and the modern world, the project of the opening of the Central Research Center, which should unite biologists, psychologists, geneticists, linguists, neurophysiologists and historians, as well as the influence of the historical past of Europe on its future.