Danilevsky Igor, Biography

Danilevsky Igor Nikolayevich - a famous Soviet and Russian historian. Most of the works they wrote on the period of Ancient Rus. Until the end of the XVI century. He has the status of professor and the title of doctor of historical sciences. Author of numerous books, monographs, teaching aids.

Biography of the scientist

Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich was born on May 20, 1953 in Rostov-on-Don. Immediately after school I entered the Faculty of History and Law in Rostov. From the student's bench he was most interested in the history of the ancient Russian state. This specialization remained interesting to him throughout his career as a scientist.

In 1975 he graduated from the university with a red diploma and received a qualification specialty of history and social science teacher.

However, I did not go to school, I stayed at the university. First I worked at the department of source studies. Since 1978, he moved to the post of assistant, and soon began his own teaching activities. Danilevsky Igor Nikolayevich lectured students on the history of the USSR.

Soon he took the post of deputy dean in his native Rostov State University, which had received the pedagogical status by that time.

Defense of the thesis

In 1981 Danilevsky Igor Nikolayevich summed up the preliminary results of his first scientific works. On the specialty "Historiography" he defended his thesis.

The defense took place at the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov. The most authoritative scientists of the country at the Department of History assessed the level of work of the young Rostov researcher. At that time he was only 28 years old.

Defense of the thesis was based on the dating of historical facts and data from written sources. Danilevsky studied the problem all the time after graduation. The work was recognized as brilliant, according to the results of the defense Danilevsky Igor Nikolaevich, whose biography was forever associated with science, received the title of Candidate of Science.

Further career

After the successful defense of the candidate's dissertation, Danilevsky moves from Rostov-on-Don to the capital. In Moscow in May 1983, he began to work in the General Directorate of Higher and Secondary Pedagogical Institutions. The administration is subordinated to the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR. At first he holds the post of the methodologist, then he holds the post of the head of the teaching department. Together with colleagues, they determine the features of studying history in schools, secondary professional and higher educational institutions of the country.

Five years later, Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky, whose lectures are well known and loved by students, as he does not interrupt his pedagogical activity, goes on raising.

In the structures of the Ministry of Education, it is decided to appoint him the director of the Republican educational and methodical cabinet of higher and secondary pedagogical education. Now he directly manages the whole structure, decides which textbooks and which authors will fall on the table of schoolchildren and students of the whole republic.

Work at the Moscow State Pedagogical University

During perestroika, in 1989, Danilevsky moved to work in one of the largest pedagogical universities in the country - the Moscow Pedagogical State University. He is immediately appointed to the post of Associate Professor of the Department of History of the USSR. And he explores only the pre-Soviet period, not touching those related to the victory of the October Revolution, which at this time become controversial and controversial at all levels.

The object of a close study of Danilevsky becomes the history of Ancient Rus. He spends a lot of time in the archives, produces monographs and articles in scientific journals.

In the mid-90's, Danilevsky Igor Nikolayevich, whose photo adorned the honor board of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, moved to work at the Russian Academy of Education. Here he becomes the head of the laboratory at the historical department of the corresponding institute. Danilevsky studies the question of how great the role of the individual in the historical process. He is especially interested in the events of a thousand years ago.

In 1996, for more in-depth academic research, he moved to the historical-archive institute of the RSUH. In this university he again, as well as in the beginning of his academic career, becomes the head of the department of source study. Including working with auxiliary historical disciplines.

In the Russian Academy of Sciences

In 2001 she became a specialist at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Danilevsky - deputy director for research, heads the department of socio-cultural research. In this position he worked until 2010. Then he moved away from active scientific and pedagogical activity.

In 2004 he received a Ph.D. In the Russian State Humanitarian University he defended his thesis devoted to the study of annalistic texts. His contribution to this area of historiography is invaluable, his research is still used by students and teachers of the history of Russian and foreign universities.

In 2008 he became a professor, and in 2016 he became a member of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education of Russia.

Publications

Danilevsky Igor Nikolayevich, whose books are well known to all modern historians, for his career became the author of one and a half hundred scientific publications.

His writings of the 80s are devoted to the theory and methodology of historical research. In the 2000s, he concentrated on the problems of Ancient Rus. In 2003, he saw the light of his edition of The Tale of Bygone Years. A special emphasis was placed on the peculiarity of creating and writing annalistic texts.