Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of FEB RAS celebrates its 50th anniversary

Abstract

On July 1, 2021, the Institute of History, Archeology and
Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary! Its creation in 1971 and its formation took place
at a very remarkable time for the Russian Far East: there was a
process of intensive exploitation of the natural resources of the
region, new industrial enterprises and universities were created,
Far Eastern cities were updated, and the population was growing.
The ideological and military confrontation between the two
«superpowers» grew, and relations between the USSR and the
PRC sharply worsened. Under these conditions, the role of the
humanitarian and ideological component of the social life of the
region, which was to be formed by historical science, increased.
The first and permanent head of the Institute for 20 years was
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Andrey Ivanovich
Krushanov (1921–1991).