Ilya Galkin
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Ilya Galkin | |
|---|---|
Илья Саввич Галкин | |
| Rector of Moscow University | |
| In office 1943–1948 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Butyagin |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Nesmeyanov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 July (1 August) 1898 Panasyuki, Pruzhany Uyezd, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 7 April 1990 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Vostryakovskoye Cemetery |
| Education | Institute of History and Philosophy, Moscow (1932) |
| Occupation | Historian, academic administrator |
| Awards | |
Ilya Savvich Galkin (Илья Саввич Галкин; 20 July [O.S. 1 August] 1898 – 7 April 1990) was a Soviet historian and academic administrator who served as rector of Moscow University from 1943 to 1948, leading the university through its wartime evacuation and the early postwar years, and who subsequently headed its Department of Modern and Contemporary History for several decades.[1]
Early life and education
Galkin was born on 20 July (1 August) 1898 in the village of Panasyuki, Pruzhany Uyezd, Grodno Governorate, the son of a peasant, Savva Galka.[2] During the First World War, his family relocated to Vladimir Governorate, where he received his primary education in the town of Kovrov.[2] He joined the Communist Party in 1927, studied at the historical-philosophical faculty of Moscow University from 1930 to 1931, and graduated from the Institute of History and Philosophy in 1932.[3] A student of the historian Nikolai Lukin, Galkin defended his candidate's dissertation on the history of the German labour movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in 1935.[3]
Academic and administrative career before the rectorship
From 1932, Galkin taught and worked in academic administration, eventually at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History (MIFLI) and Moscow University.[3] At MIFLI he served as dean of the historical department (1936–1938) and as pro-rector (1937–1941), and briefly as acting rector in 1941.
Wartime evacuation of Moscow University
Following the incorporation of MIFLI into Moscow University's historical faculty in December 1941, Galkin was appointed the university's pro-rector for academic affairs and deputy rector, and was named plenipotentiary of the RSFSR People's Commissariat of Education for the university's evacuation to the Turkmen SSR and Sverdlovsk.[1][2] From January 1942 to January 1943, he served as pro-rector for academic affairs with the duties of rector of the evacuated part of the university in Ashgabat and Sverdlovsk, and for the whole of 1943 was deputy to rector Alexander Butyagin in Moscow.[1] Together with Butyagin and pro-rector Mikhail Filatov, Galkin played a central role in preserving the university's unity while it was divided between Moscow and its evacuated branches, overseeing the evacuation to Ashgabat, the maintenance of the university's Ashgabat and Sverdlovsk operations, and its eventual re-evacuation from Sverdlovsk to Moscow.[1][4]
Rector of Moscow University
Galkin was elected rector of Moscow University in 1943 and served in the post until 1948, guiding the university through the difficult final years of the war and the early postwar period.[1] By the end of 1943, new departments had opened across several of the university's faculties. He became a professor in 1943 and was among the initiators of the All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge (the Znanie Society).[2]
Later academic career
After leaving the rectorship, Galkin continued to work for many years in Moscow University's Department of Modern and Contemporary History, which he headed from 1953 (by some accounts from 1950) to 1980, and again served as the university's pro-rector between 1950 and 1959.[3] He specialised in the history of the international labour and national liberation movements in Europe and in international relations, taught a course on the historiography of modern and contemporary European and American history, and received his Doctorate in Historical Sciences in 1956.[3] His students included the historian Igor Dementyev.
Death and legacy
Galkin died in Moscow on 7 April 1990, at the age of 91, and was buried at Vostryakovskoye Cemetery.[5] He was awarded the Order of Lenin twice, in 1944 and 1978, as well as the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "ЭС: И.С.Галкин" (in русский). Moscow University Chronicle (letopis.msu.ru). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Илья Галкин — об авторе" (in русский). LiveLib. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Галкин, Илья Саввич" (in русский). Hrono.ru. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ "А вы знали о И. С. Галкине?" (in русский). Laboratory of Scientific Journalism (sciencemedialab.ru). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ "Илья Саввич Галкин - советский историк" (in русский). F-mx.ru. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
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