Vyacheslav Petrovich Volgin
Vyacheslav Petrovich Volgin ( Russian Вячеслав Петрович Волгин ; born June 14, 1879 in Borschtschowka, † July 3, 1962 in Moscow ) was a Russian historian and rector of Moscow's Lomonosov University .
biography
Wolgin was the son of an officer. He studied physics and mathematics from 1897 to 1908 and then history and philology at Moscow University . From 1914 he taught at Shanyavsky University. In 1918 he helped found the Sverdlov Communist University . In 1920 he became a member of the Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) (KPR (B)). From 1921 to 1925 he was rector of Moscow's Lomonossov University. From 1919 to 1930 he was a historian professor at Moscow University, from 1925 to 1930 dean and from 1919 to 1929 a member of the Scientific Council of the Soviet Union .
He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Awards, honors
- Order of Lenin , 1945, 1949, 1959
- Lenin Prize , 1961
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Honorary Doctorate from New Delhi University , 1947
Web links
- Literature by and about Vyacheslav Petrovich Wolgin in the catalog of the German National Library
- photo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolgin, Vyacheslav Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Волгин, Вячеслав Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borschtschowka |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1962 |
| Place of death | Moscow |