
MIKHAIL V. KHODYAKOV
Dr. Sci. (History), Professor. Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Head of Modern History of Russia Department
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8469-2590
RSCI: SPIN-code: 6783-0339, AuthorID: 467094
ResearcherID: J-2620-2013
Scopus: 57188810645
https://history.spbu.ru/nir-sotrudniki/details/6/21.html
E-mail: khodjakov@yandex.ru
EDUCATION
1990 – Leningrad State University, specialty “History”, qualification “Historian, teacher of history and social studies”
DEGREES AND TITLES
1993 – Cand. Sci. (History)
1999 – academic title of Associate Professor of Russian History Department
2002 – Dr. Sci. (History)
2008 – academic title of Professor of Modern History of Russia Department
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1989–1992 – Research Scholar of Institute of Socio-Economic Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1993 – Assistant of History Faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University
1994 – Senior Lecturer of History Faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University
1997 – Associate Professor of History Faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University
2004 – Professor of History Faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University
2003 – present time – Head of Modern History of Russia Department of Saint-Petersburg State University
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTERESTS
Various aspects of the history of the Great Patriotic War and the defense of Leningrad, the history of monetary circulation in the 20th century, the history of the construction and functioning of the Chinese Eastern Railway
DISCIPLINES TAUGHT
- History of Russian revolutions
- Modern History of Russia
- Mythology of wars and revolutions in the 20th century
- USSR during the World War II
- Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War
- Military money and its issue in the 20th century
SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL WORK
2001–2003 – Deputy Dean of History Faculty for Research, Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of History of Saint-Petersburg State University; Member of the Academic Council of the State Museum of Political History of Russia; Member of the Public Council of the Archival Committee of St. Petersburg; Member of the Council of the regional branch of the Russian Historical Society
Participation in the editorial board of scientific publications:
- Petersburg Historical Journal, member of the editorial board
- Modern History of Russia, member of the editorial board
3 doctoral and 11 candidate dissertations were prepared and defended
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS OF RECENT YEARS
Articles
“We will not let many people in here”: housing policy in Leningrad during the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. Noveishaya istoriya Rossii = Modern History of Russia, 2023, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 891-905. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.412
Church construction in Transbaikalia and the Chinese eastern railway: Kaydalovskaya railway branch at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. Vestnik NGU. Seriya: Istoriya, filologiya = Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 2023, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 100-111. https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2023-22-8-100-111 (in co-authorship)
Manchuria railway station in the early 20th century: problems of organization of management on the railway. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 8: Istoriya = Moscow University Bulletin. Series 8: History, 2023, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 97-106. https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0130-0083-8-2023-64-4-97-106
Leningrad household manager during the blockade: area of responsibility and image. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 4: Istoriya. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya = Science Journal of Volgograd State University. History. Area Studies. International Relations, 2023, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 85-93. https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2023.1.8 (in co-authorship)
“Giant leech on the state chest”: the Chinese eastern railway in assessments of the Russian press of the early 20th century. Vestnik arkhivista = Herald of an Archivist, 2023, no. 2, pp. 354-363. https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2023-2-354-363
Refugees in Leningrad and city housing policy in the initial stage of the war and the blockade. Quaestio Rossica, 2022, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 455-468. https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2022.2.681
Confectionery production in besieged Leningrad. 1941–1943. Noveishaya istoriya Rossii = Modern History of Russia, 2022, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 812-839. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.401
Plague in Manchuria: Russian public opinion on the epidemic on the Chinese eastern railway in 1910–1911. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 8: Istoriya = Moscow University Bulletin. Series 8: History, 2022, no. 2, pp. 93-106 (in co-authorship)
Documents from the archives of St. Petersburg and the Russian state archive of economics on the work of the confectionery industry in Leningrad during the blockade. 1941-1944. Otechestvennye arkhivy [Domestic Archives], 2021, no. 4, pp. 52-61.
The confrontation between life and death: some results of studying the history of the blockade of Leningrad. Noveishaya istoriya Rossii = Modern History of Russia, 2021, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 294-323. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.201 (in co-authorship)
The “class ration” and food reserves during the Civil War. Quaestio Rossica, 2021, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 169-187. https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2021.1.572
Books
Noveishaya istoriya Rossii: v 2 ch. [Modern History of Russia: in 2 pts.]. Moscow, Yurait Publ., 2023, pt. 2: 1941–2015, 300 p. (in co-authorship)
Noveishaya istoriya Rossii: v 2 ch. [Modern History of Russia: in 2 pts.]. Moscow, Yurait Publ., 2023, pt. 1: 1914–1941, 270 p. (in co-authorship)
Tsentr i regiony: ekonomicheskaya politika pravitel’stva na okrainakh Rossiiskoi imperii (1894–1917) [Center and Regions: Economic Policy of the Government on the Outskirts of the Russian Empire (1894–1917)]. St. Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg State University Publ., 2021, 660 p. (in co-authorship)
Den’gi revolyutsii i Grazhdanskoi voiny: 1917–1920 gody [Money of the Revolution and Civil War: 1917–1920]. St. Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg State University Publ., 2019, 312 p.