Efim Pivovar

Position
Academic Director of RSUH, Member of the Academic Council of RSUH Professor, Director of the Institute of Eurasian and Interregional Studies

Academic degree
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

State awards, honors, recognitions

• 2006 – badge "Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation"
• 2010 – medal Pro Cultura Hungarica for a major contribution to the development of Hungarian-Russian cultural and scientific ties
• 2010 – Order of Friendship for a major contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations and peoples, high achievements in the development of the economic and scientific potential of Russia
• 2010 – commendation from the President of the Russian Federation for active participation in the preparation and holding of events dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, for work on social support for veterans and for patriotic youth education
• 2011 - laureate of the 2011 Russian Government Prize in the field of education for contribution to the development of the domestic education system
• 2012 - laureate of the Heydar Aliyev Prize for a significant contribution to strengthening and developing friendly relations between Russia and Azerbaijan
• 2018 - Order of Honor
• 2019 – Order of Honor for personal contribution to the formation, strengthening and development of Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
• 2019 – badge “Honorary Worker of Education and Enlightenment of the Russian Federation”
• 2019 – Batyshev medal of the Russian Academy of Education for a significant contribution to the activities of professional educational organizations of higher education
• 2019 – “For Loyalty to Education”, badge of honor of the Russian Society “Znanie”
• 2020 – laureate of the 2020 Russian Government Prize in the field of education
• 2021 - a letter of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation for a special personal contribution to the development of education in Russia and the spiritual and moral education of Russian citizens
• 2022 - Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation for a significant contribution to the development of education and the preservation of spiritual and moral traditions.

Background
Born December 15, 1949, in Moscow.

• 1966-1971 – undergraduate studies at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University
• 1971-1973 - graduate studies at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
• 1973-1986 - Journal "History of the USSR": Head of the sections "History of the USSR Abroad", "Historiography, Source Studies, Methods of Historical Research"
• 1986-1997 – Moscow State Institute of History and Archives (since 1991 – Russian State University for the Humanities), Senior Lecturer, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Archival Affairs (1986-1990), Vice-Rector for Research (1990-1993), Chair of the Department of Modern Russian History (1989-1997)
• 1997–2005 – Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University: Professor, Head of the Center for Theoretical Issues of Historical Research (since 1997), Deputy Dean for Education and Methodology (since 1999), Chair of the Department of History of the CIS countries (2004 to the present)
• 2006 – 2016 – Rector of RSUH.

Academic and educational activity
Educational work and research:

• Member of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission
• Member of the Board of the Foundation "History of the Fatherland” under the Government of the Russian Federation
• Member of the Council of the Russian Historical Society
• Member of the Council for the Development of Pedagogical Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
• Member of the Academic Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the History of the Great Patriotic War
• Member of the Academic Council "History of World Culture" of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Chairman of the Board of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists
• Chairman of the Public Council under the Federal Archival Agency
• Deputy Chairman of the Academic and Methodological Council on History and member of the Academic Council of the Federal Institute for Pedagogical Measurements of Rosobrnadzor
• Deputy Chairman of dissertation councils
• member of the Board of the Russian Union of Rectors
• member of the Presidium of the Council of Rectors of the Higher Education Institutions of Moscow and the Moscow Region
• Chairman of the Board of the Society of Friendship with Azerbaijan
• Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian public organization "Association of School Teachers of History and Social Science"
• Co-Chairman of the Committee of Historians and Archivists of the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic
• Co-Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Association of Partner Universities of Russia and Ukraine
• Member of the Board of Rosarkhiv
• Member of the Academic Councils of the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
• Member of the Russian-Austrian Committee of Historians
• Member of the Committee of Historians of Russia and Kazakhstan
• Member of the Committee of Historians of Russia and Israel
• Member of the Dissertation Council on Historical Sciences (Moscow State University)
• Co-Chairman of the All-Russian Public and State Educational Organization "Znanie" (until 2021)
• Chairman of the Expert Council for International Cooperation in Education and Science under the State Duma Committee on Education and Science (2016-2021)
• Chairman of the Expert Advisory Council under the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Abroad (2016-2021)
• Member of the Expert Council for De-Bureaucratization in Education and Science under the State Duma Committee on Education and Science (2021)
• Chairman of the Expert Council of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots Abroad (2012-2016)
• Member of the Council on Science, Technology and Education under the President of the Russian Federation (2010-2011)
• Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of Russia (2012)

Author of more than 600 publications. Supervised 27 PhD dissertations and 5 Doctor dissertations.
Participation in academic councils, committees, editorial boards:

• editor-in-chief and member of the international editorial board of the almanac "Istoricheskie Zapiski" of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• editor-in-chief of the bulletin "EuroAsia" (Moscow State University)
• editor-in-chief of "Vestnik RGGU" (series "Eurasian Studies. History. Political Science. International Relations")
• editor-in-chief of the yearbook "Proceedings of the Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies"
• member of the editorial board of the journal "Russian History"
• member of the editorial board of the journal "Vestnik MSU" (series "History")
• member of the editorial board of the journal "Vestnik arkhivista"
• member of the editorial board of the Russian historical journal "Rodina"
• member of the editorial board of the almanac of intellectual history "Dialogue with Time" of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• member of the editorial board of the journal "Vestnik Rossiyskoy Natsii”
• member of the editorial board of the journal “Knowledge is Power”.

Area of expertise
Social history of Russia in the 20th century, historiography, source studies, methods of historical research, history of the CIS countries, integration processes in the post-Soviet space, history of Russian emigration.