DSc in History
Education:
Moscow State Regional Pedagogical University (2005)
PhD thesis:
Historical Views of B.I. Syromyatnikov (2007)
DSc (Habil.):
Soviet Historical Science in the Context of Ideological Campaigns in the mid-1940s and Early 1950s (2018)
Research interests: social history of science, history of historical science, Soviet history
Professional service:
Member of the Scientific Council of the IRH RAS
Member of the Scientific Council of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Expert of RAS
Executive Secretary of the Russian Association of Historians of the First World War (2011–2018)
Member of the Dissertation councils of IRH RAS and IWH RAS
Honorary titles and awards:
Commemorative Medal and Certificate of Honor (award nomination) of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow (2013) for the monograph “Moscow Historians of the First Half of the 20th Century” (Мoscow, 2012)
Diploma of the Russian Historical Society for significant personal contribution to the popularization of Russian history and the formation of Russian historical culture, and in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016)
Winner of the Moscow Government Young Scientist Award for 2021 in the Humanities category for a series of publications on the history of Russian science of the 20th century (2022)
Other information:
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Historical Expertise
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Bulletin of the Ural Federal University. Series 2: Humanities
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal People and Texts. Historical Almanac
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cultural History
Member of the Editorial Board of History and Historians: Historiographical Bulletin
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Space of Science
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Humanities in Siberia
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Methodi et praxis: Historian and Source
Member of the Editorial Board of Magistra Vitae: An electronic journal of Historical Sciences and Archeology
Member of the Editorial Board of the serial academic yearbook Codex Manuscriptus
Teaching activity:
Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Source Studies at the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities (2011–2022);
Associate Professor at the School of Current Humanitarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (2016–2018);
Associate Professor of the Department of Russian History of the Middle Ages and Modern Times, Faculty of History, Political Science and Law, Moscow State Regional Pedagogical University (2007–2016);
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of the University of the Russian Academy of Education (2005–2011)
Academic publications
Monographs:
- The Soviet National Project in the 1920s and 1940s: Ideology and Practice, Moscow, Novy Khronograf Publ., 2021. 608 p. (Co-authored with D.A. Amanzholova, K.S. Drozdov, T.Y. Krasovitskaya)
- The Useful Past: History in the Stalinist USSR. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Publ., 2024. 368 p.: ill.
- The History of Medicine in Russia: Ethics and Politics. Monograph, ed. by N.P. Shok. Moscow, Prakticheskaia Meditsina Publ., 2025. 408 p. (Co-authored with with O.S. Nagornykh, N.Y. Pivovarov, N.P. Shok)
Collective works (editor):
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 — Memory and Legacy, ed. by C.S. Leonard, D. Orlovsky, J. Petrov. Routledge, 2024. 376 p.
- Science and Society in the 20th‒21st Centuries: in 2 parts, comp. and ed. M.D. Bukharin. 785 p. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2024. Part I. 785 p.
- Science and Society in the 20th‒21st Centuries: in 2 parts, comp. and ed. M.D. Bukharin. 785 p. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2024. Part II. 996 p.
- Academician M.N. Tikhomirov: Memoirs. Diaries. Correspondence with Students, authored and comp. A.V. Melnikov, N.A. Komochev, V.V. Tikhonov. Moscow; St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriya Publ., 2022. 784 p.
- Confessions of the Undefeated: The Stories of the Defenders of Sevastopol. 1941–1942: Collection of Documents, ed. by M.E. Morozov, K.S. Drozdov, S.V. Zhuravlev [and others]. Moscow; St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriya Publ., 2023. 716 p., ill.
- Militsa Vasilyevna Nechkina: The Historiographical Heritage of the 1920s, authored and comp., text and commentary prepared by V.V. Tikhonov, L.V. Klimova; ed. by M.G. Vandalkovskaya. Moscow, Ves’ mir Publ., 2024. 456 p.
- Between History and Literature: Discussions About A.N. Tolstoy's Novel “Peter the Great” in the 1930s, ed. by A.S. Akimov, V.V. Tikhonov; prepared by A.S. Akimov; comp., author's article and commentary by A.S. Akimov, M.G. Ivanova, O.A. Plekh, V.V. Tikhonov. Moscow, Sovpadenie Publ., 2024. 416 p.
- Source Studies: Information Resources of History and Archeology: Textbook, ed. by V.I. Durnovtsev. Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities Publ., 2024. 586 p.
