On April 7 and 8, the 24th All-Russian Conference with international participation "Auxiliary Historical Disciplines in Modern Academic Knowledge" was held, organized by the Department of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines and Archeography of RSUH jointly with the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Conference celebrated the 90th birthday of Professor Kashtanov (RSUH).
On April 7 and 8, the 24th All-Russian Conference with international participation "Auxiliary Historical Disciplines in Modern Academic Knowledge" was held, organized by the Department of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines and Archeography of RSUH jointly with the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Conference celebrated the 90th birthday of Professor Kashtanov (RSUH).
The plenary session chaired by Dr. Evgeny Pchelov of RSUH and Dr. Irina Konovalova of the RAS, opened with a welcoming speech by Dr. Kashtanov, who recalled the milestones in his academic biography.
The conference was attended by more than 130 speakers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vologda, Minsk, Voronezh, Rostov, Simferopol, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Barnaul, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Nizhnevartovsk, Tver, Perm, Novgorod, Kyiv , Kazan. They represented academic institutions, universities, archives and museums.
The sections covered such disciplines as diplomacy, paleography, codicology, epigraphy, genealogy, heraldry, sphragistics, numismatics, historical geography, source studies.