Valery Tishkov: biography and photo

Тишков Валерий Александрович - известный Russian historian, scholar dealing with social anthropology. He has the title of professor and doctor of historical sciences. Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1989, he has headed the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after Miklukho-Maklay, and also heads the Center for Social Anthropology of the Russian State Humanitarian University.

Biography scientist

Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov was born in yearsWorld War II - November 6, 1941. He was born in a small Ural town Nizhnye Sergi, located in the Sverdlovsk region. The town is small, but very beautiful and picturesque. Locals even call it "the Ural Switzerland."

Valery's younger brother, Leonid, was an artist.Father Alexander Ivanovich and mother Raisa Aleksandrovna Tyagunova taught in school. So since childhood there were many books in the house, parents paid great attention to the upbringing and education of children. In this case, the mother led lessons in elementary school, and his father immediately taught physical education and geography. From the first days my father went to serve at the front. Having not really participated in any battle, he was captured and stayed in the camp until 1945.

Study at school

At school Tishkov Valery Alexandrovich studiedOK. As he himself admits, he could not keep up, so as not to disgrace his parents. Favorite subjects were history and literature. The class teacher Nina Vasilievna Malinina played a big role in his life.

School graduated in 1959 with honors.At first I was going to enter the Faculty of Philology, but, having learned that the competition was too high there, I chose the history department at the last moment. The parents were first against this adventurous trip, but the mother still supported her son, and Valery Alexandrovich Tishkov went to Moscow. The family has allocated 50 rubles with the expectation of a return ticket.

Initiative and independence - quality,which Tishkov showed then remained with him for life. True, this decision was given is not easy. The next ten years had to wander through the hostels. First student, then graduate.

At this time, his younger brother threw medicaleducation and devoted himself to painting. About loved ones did not forget Tishkov Valery. Interesting facts he talks about postcards that sent to the Urals. His grandmother suddenly began to draw in her old age. He regularly sent her postcards from the capital, and she redrawed them and asked for more.

Studying at the University

In those days, on the initiative of Khrushchev, they abolishedpreferences medalists. 80 places in universities were intended for those who had at least two years of experience in any job. The remaining places were distributed among all others. As a result, the so-called interns were enrolled with threes, while ordinary students had to score 19 points out of 20.

Valery Alexandrovich Tishkov received a four in English, but he brilliantly passed on the history of the top five and entered. He decided to specialize in the department of history of the CPSU.

Еще в студенческие годы проявился свободолюбивый character Tishkov. He read the book “Stalin. Political Biography” at the American trainee and began telling at the seminar about camps and repressions that the official authorities had not yet recognized. Only the intercession of his senior comrades saved him from being expelled, however, he had to transfer to the US history department.

Going to Magadan

Having graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University in 1964,Valery Alexandrovich Tishkov was assigned to the Magadan Pedagogical Institute. A year later he became the youngest dean of the faculty in the history of the university. He was only 24 years old.

In Magadan, he worked until 1972 withshort breaks for admission to graduate school and the defense of a master's thesis. Work defended by the history of Canada. In many respects, they had to return to Magadan due to the fact that there was no one else to read lectures on recent history and students missed them for three years.

Just before departure, an important event occurred,after which Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov could not help changing. The personal life of the scientist began to improve, he married Larisa Nikishova, who worked in the Tretyakov Gallery as an art historian. Wife soon moved to her husband in the Far North, where she began to read courses on the history of Russian art. In 1971, their son Basil was born.

Tishkovs got a two-room apartment, butdesire to do research work overpowered. Two years later they returned to Moscow. Valery Alexandrovich Tishkov, whose biography has already included several in-depth studies, dreamed of studying the ethnic history of the American Indians. In particular, those that lived on the territory of modern Canada. He begins to work at the Institute of Universal History of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

First publications

In 1977-78releases the first works of Valery Tishkov. The books were called "The Land of the Maple Leaf. Beginning of History" and "The Liberation Movement in Colonial Canada." They came out in the publishing house "Science".

By and large, it was an extended PhD thesis. Colleagues, having familiarized themselves with the works, advised on their basis to defend a doctoral one. What was done in 1979.

Work at the Institute of Ethnology

Since 1989, Tishkov has headed the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. He is one of the research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In the fields of interest of the Institute, variousDirections are the evolution of man and the origin of cultures, ethnic and social cultures, nationalism, religious and gender studies, physical anthropology.

Scientific interests

The main works of Tishkov are devoted to the social anthropology of the North American countries, in particular the characteristics of their inter-ethnic relations.

The title of candidate of historical sciences, he receiveddefended his thesis on "The historical background of the Canadian revolution of 1837." Doctoral dissertation was defended on the liberation movements in the Canadian colonies.

Work at the head of the institute

Institute of Ethnology Tishkov headed in a difficultfor country time. Perestroika, publicity, almost no attention is paid to science. At this time, he decides to create an association of ethnographers and anthropologists.

Its first congress was held in Ryazan in 1995. Only 80 scientists came to the first congress, after 12 years there were already more than 700 of them, from all over the world.

For 7 months, Tishkov was Minister fornationalities. But when he left this service, he was just glad, because the work was not enjoyable, was not to his liking. On the other hand, it came to the realization that at the political levels there are few who can imagine how to manage a multi-ethnic and multinational country in the modern conditions of democracy and liberalization.

The first serious conflicts have already occurred.national soil, Russia seriously threatened separatism, notes at the time Tishkov. Then he decided to focus on early warning of conflicts. As a result, in 1994 a network of ethnological monitoring was created. By the way, this term is still absent in foreign science.

The project was entirely led by Russian scientists, the authorities and the expert community used its results.