Preserving historical truth: SPbU conference brings together leading researchers of 20th-century wars

St Petersburg University, together with the St Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Library of Russia, and with the support of the History of the Fatherland Foundation, held the academic conference “Russia in Wars and Social Conflicts (1914–1945): Historical Experience and Research Prospects”.

The conference took place in the year of the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the Siege of Leningrad and was dedicated to the memory of historian Mikhail Viktorovich Khodyakov, a graduate of Leningrad State University and one of the leading experts on the history of Russia in the first half of the 20th century.