1971 – 2011

The Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography (IHAE), the Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, is the unique and the single Research Institu¬tion not only in Russia but also worldwide. The staff of the Institute is conducting the investigations based on their profound knowledge and huge amount of experience in history, archaeology, ethnography, culture, policy and economy of the Russian Far East. Thus, as they are well aware of the past and present events of our region they can also predict the future of the remotest areas of Russia and also neighboring China, Japan and Korea.

Under the leadership of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS ) the Institute successfully deals with all Russian specialists and foreign colleagues that are interested in the history of our region. The Institute was formed on July 1, 1971, and since this moment the staff has been carrying out scientific investigations in the following aspects: archaeology and ethnography of the Pacific Russia and neighboring territories, the history of Russian impact on development of the region, history and culture of China, Ja¬pan and Korea, foreign relationships with Asia Pacific countries and security challenges in this area. All these trends are wildly highlighted in the scientific re¬searches of mutual and individual programs of our staff that consists of almost 80 highly-qualified personal ranging from more than 50 Candidates of Science to 10 Doctors of Science, Full Professors.

The major aims of the Institute are supposed not only to conduct traditional scientific investigations and training of highly skilled and self-motivated team players but also large-scale promotion of historic regional heritage and to contri¬bute to further striving for perfection of genuine humanitarian education in schools and Universities of the region and eventually to create the possibility to strengthen the position of our country in the Pacific Asian area and to cooperate fruitfully with the countries of Eastern Asia and Asia Pacific Region. We are completely convinced that the keys to success are based on trust-worthy and fair cooperation, developing mutual interests and comprehension that is sure to help to overcome historical contradictions, suspicion, hatred and hostility otherwise all the talks concerning the peaceful climate in the region and the transformation of it into the flourishing area will be senseless. Our major target is to make our projects come true and we are always ready to cooperate with the concerned partners that share our points of view and are eager to support us.

THE BACKGROUND OF THE INSTITUTE

On November 26, 1970, The Presidium of the Academy of Science of the former USSR passed the decision to establish the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of Far- East in Vladivostok . Less than in a year on July 1,1971, the IHAE was founded on the base of a small Department of His¬tory and Archaeology that had been formed in 1954 and was a subdivision of the Branch of Russian Academy of Science. The first Head of the Institute was Academician Andrei Ivanovich Krushanov. Due to his boundless enthusiasm and great efforts over the span of his 20 years’ career the Institute of History was shortly recognized as the centre of Far-Eastern Science. A.I. Krushanov gave the green light to a great number of scientists and lecturers who represent his¬torical science in our region working not only at the Institute but practically in each one located in the Far-East.

Since 1991 Dr.Sc. Full professor Victor Lavrentyevich Larin has been the head of IHAE and in his early yeas of leadership he had to encounter a lot of difficul¬ties due to the policy of crucial reforms in our country that pursued him to reno¬vate the old comprehension of social and cultural aspects and economical de¬velopment on the whole and determine new trends in the field of their studies and adopt different approach to further scientific investigations. It is in his spirit that he managed to kindle a spark in new areas that were not even considered to be of extraordinary importance from the outset.

The staff of the Institute takes proud of the fact that a lot of eminent and out¬standing scholars worked with them during different periods and among them we should mention the following Doctors and Candidates of Historical Sciences that are not only well-known in our country but also abroad: Zh.V. Andreeva, A.R.Artemyev, A.P Derevyanko, N.V.Kocheshkov, Yu.A. Sem, F.V.Solovyev, I. G.Stryuchenko, E.V.Shavkunov, V.G.Shebenkov and Candi¬dates of Historical Sciences: V.D.Lenkov, N.V.Kile, G.A. Otaina and the others.

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC TRENDS

The scholars of IHAE contributed a lot to revitalizing the vivid picture of forming and development of the historical civilization in the territory of the Russian Far-East and neighboring areas.

IHAE is majoring in particular archaeological studies and scientific hardships of research as well. Among the key challenges are the transition from Paleolithic period to Neolithic time in the northeastern part of Asia, building up of ancient settlements, types of migration and adaptation of the native inhabitants to their original places of living and the role of Primorye as an outlying district of me¬dieval states — the Bohai, Jin, Dong Xia. Annual archaeological expeditions of IHAE researches resulted in discovery of 1.5 thousand of archaeological re¬markable finds, excavation of more than 100 settlements and burial tombs. The ancient state Bohai (698-926 AD) is considered to be of great significance as well as the Eastern Xia state (1215-1233 AD) proved its existence on the territory of Primorye as it had separated from the Golden Empire oftheJurchen.

Our researches also managed to discover and investigate the sites of Russian pioneers in Primorye and Transbaikalye and wrote the history of the Far East de¬velopment during XVII-XVIII centuries. They keep on groundbreaking work at do¬zens of archaeological sites having launched the comprehensive program that will help to ensure the preservation of historical heritage of early civilization in the vast territories of this region.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS
Primitive Society Archaeological dept.
Head of Dept. N.A.KIyuev, Cand.Sc, Associate Professor

Medieval Archaeological dept.
Head of Dept. N.G. Artemieva, Cand.Sc.,

Laboratory of Priamurye Archaeology
Head of Lab. O.V.Dyakova, Dr.Sc. Professor.,

Center of Political Anthropology
Head of Center. N.N. Kradin, Dr.Sc. Professor.

Ethnographers of the Institute are conducting wild-scale research of history, cul¬ture, common life and languages of minority groups of the peoples like the Nivkhs, Evens, Udeghe, Itelmen, Tazy, Orochi etc. as well as the Slavic popula¬tion of The Far-East. During recent years scholars has been focusing their atten¬tion on the contemporary peculiarities of native inhabitants of the far-eastern re¬gion working out the concept of ethnical, cultural, social and economical devel¬opment during the period of market economy.

Ethnography Department
Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology Dept.
Startsev, Dr.Sc., Professor,

Recently specialists on Russian history have been concentrating on priority of humane values and they consider the reappraisal of such values to be of para¬mount importance and based on complete refusal of unilateral class, ideological and political approaches. The basic principle is integrated comprehensive analysis of historical events happened in the Far-East of Russia in the light of worldwide history.

Russian History Department
The specialists on oriental studies of the Institute would consider the investiga¬tion of diverse historical aspects to be of their primary targets for all the years of Institute existence. There is more focus upon the history and contemporary situa¬tion of neighboring China, Japan Korea and as well as the policy of Russia con¬ducted with Eastern countries and APR and relationships with them. Recently the researches on geography, chronology and subject area have been extended considerably. Among the problems that are being tackled now are contemporary tendencies of the development of Northeastern Asia, the role of Russia and its eastern territories in the region, public opinion concerning integra¬tion of the Russian Far-East and APR, and problems of international relations, security, outward mass migrations etc.
Oriental Departments
Foreign relations and security Dept.
Head of Dept. V.L. Larin, Dr.Sc, Professor

Center of China external policy and foreign relations
Head of Center V.LLarin, Dr.Sc, Professor

Center of Japan external policy and foreign relations
Head of Center V.V. Kozhevnikov, Cand. Sc.

Center of Korean Studies
Head of Center I.A. Tolstokulakov, Dr. Sc, Professor

Group of Public Opinion Studies
Group Leader LL.Larina, Cand.Sc.

Oriental Department
Head of Dept. G.P. Beloglazov, Cand.Sc.

ADMINISTRATION OF THE INSTITUTE
Director
V.LLarin, Dr. Sc, Professor

Science Deputy Director
LI.Gallyamova, Dr.Sc, Professor

Science Deputy Director
A.LIvliev.Cand.Sc., Associate Professor

Foreign Relations Dept.Director
S.Yu.Vradiy.Cand.Sc.

Director on general matters
P.R.Vitkovskiy

Scholar Secretary
V.G.Makarenko.Cand.Sc.

Other Departments
Department of Philosophy RAS (Far-Eastern Branch)
Head of Dept. V.M. Aleksentsev, Cand.Sc.

Information Technologies Dept.
Head of Dept. A.P.Gerasimenko, Cand.Sc.

Publishing Department
Managing Editor A.V.Kalachinskiy, Cand.Sc.

Address:
89, Pushkinskaya St., Vladivostok, 690950 Russia
Tel. (4232) 22-05-07
Fax. (4232) 26-82-11
e-mail: ihae@eastnet.febras.ru
http:/www. ihaefe.org.

PUBLICATIONS
The historians of the Institute have a great variety of publications concerning their researches and studies. They published a lot of scientific issues, mono¬graphs, articles where they outlined the new achievements in their work using as contemporary materials and archives as well. One of the well-known publica¬tion is the fundamental edition in many volumes of tremendous significance un¬der the title » The History of the Russian Far-East» Among the other numerous publications we can mention the following four books:» The History of the Far-East (Ancient Times up to XVII cent.)» published in 1989, «The History of The Far-East in feudal and capitalist periods ( XVII — February 1917)» published in 1991, ‘ The History of the Russian Far-East» vol,.3, book 1, » The Far-East of Russia during the revolution in 1917 and the Civil War.» Pub¬lished in 2003, » The Peace after the War : Far-Eastern community in 1945-1950)» under the edition of Editor in Chief V.L.Larin and great number of other publications.

The ethnographers of the Institute in their turn published the series of issues (11 books in total) that are dedicated to the history, culture and traditions of ethnic minority groups presenting an accurate picture of the indigenous peoples in the Far-East (the Chukchi, Orochi, Ulchi, Koryaks, Evens and the other communities) and showing how native inhabitants perceive their place — spiritually, historically and physically — in the universe. All this information was brilliantly given in one of the most popular and well-known historical-ethnographic edition «Jne History and Culture of Eastern minority communities in the Far-East.» A number of text¬books was also published for native (the Nanaians and Nivkhs ) schools in or¬der to preserve the cultures and languages of original inhabitants.

The archaeologists of the Institute have worked out concepts such as particulari¬ties of cultural development of the ancient communities in Primorye, cultural ge¬nesis of the medieval Tungus-Manchur and the results of explorations of the original settlements in Transbaikalye and Primorye. A series of issues of IHAE archaeologists are translated into English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages.

Specialists on oriental studies published a series of articles and numerous mo¬nographs on the culture, history and contemporary situation in the countries of APR. One of the most fundamental editions is» The History of the North-Eastern China XVII-XX» and some Reference Books

For the years of IHAE existence more than 600 monographs, textbooks, series of articles and 6,5 thousand scientific issues, 252 periodicals of the journal «By the Map of the Pacific Ocean». have been published. For the recent 5 years, viz. 2006-2010, they have published 124 books (monographs, collected articles, text¬books and etc.) and 365 academic issues.

In 2001 the edition under the original title» Academic Researches of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Far-Eastern peoples» was re¬vived and the first 4 volumes have been published among which written by Yu.A. Sem and L.I.Sem » Tazy: ethnic history, households material and spiritual culture (XIX & XX)» Vol.10., viad., 2001,’ Actual Problems of Eastern Archaeology» vol. 11, viad., 2002,» Northeastern Asia : regional relationship problems (history and contemporary world)», vol 12,V1ad, 2003 and » Far-East of Russia: the problems of social, political and cultural development in XIX — XX», vol.13, Vlad, 2006.

The Journal» The Russia & the Pacific» has been published quarterly since 1992 the founders of the journal are the Presidium of Far-Eastern Branch of RAC and IHAE Editorial Board consists of leading scholars of the Institute in charge of the Editor in Chief V.L. Larin.

The Journal highlights the major humanitarian problems facing Asia-Pacific countries nowadays and expresses a strong preference to all issues dealing with history, archaeology and ethnography. They also publish the articles reflect¬ing the problems of philosophy, sociology, international relations and culture

The scientists from Russia, USA, China, Japan, Korea and the other countries publish their articles and issues in this Journal and collaborate successfully in all aspects concerning paramount problems of contemporary world. On February 2004, The Journal» Russia and the Pacific» was entered in the list of leading academic magazines and editions of the Russian Federation due to the decision passed by the Presidium of Russian Certification Commission. Thanks to this opportunity one can publish the dissertation on individual research in the Journal in attempt to get scientific degree of Dr. of Science.

The volume of the Edition 15.5 printed sheets, circulation — 300 copies, published quarterly, subscriptions to individuals are available through editorial office of the Institute. To be considered for publication, manuscripts should be typewritten and sent to the editor to the following address:
89, Pushkinskaya St. Vladivostok, 690950 Russia e-mail: ihae@eastnet.febras.ru
In 2007 The Institute resumed the publication of the analytical newsletter» By the Map of the Pacific», containing information about contemporary political situa¬tion in APR (firstly published since 1974 up to 1991)
SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIPS

Our Institute has long-term relationships with Research Institutes of RAS, in Moscow, such as the Institute of the Far-East, The Institute of Oriental Studies the Institute of Russian History, The Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology. The Institute has academic partners and collaborators in the Museum of Anthro¬pology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Cabinet of Curiosities) in St. Petersburg and in other scientific Institutes in Novosibirsk. Siberia and etc. The Institute deals a lot with the Institutes and Universities of the Far-East taking part in preparation of highly- qualified specialists.

Nowadays the Institute is cooperating with 17 Universities and Research aca¬demics Institutes, Museums and scientific organization of Australia, China, Ko¬rea, USA, France, Japan and etc. among which the Academies of Social Studies in China in Heilogjiang, Liaoning, Jilin provinces, the Society of History Studies of Russo-Japanese relations (Japan), Osaka State University ( Japan), Hokkaido Centre of Slavic Studies (Japan), Korean State Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (Republic of Korea) and the others. There are diverse forms of coopera¬tion: exchange of delegations, scientific literature, periodicals, arrangement and holding of mutual academic conferences, symposia, archaeological and ethno¬graphical expeditions, study courses for scholars etc.

Only for the recent 5 years more than 30 International Conferences and sympo¬sia, 15 joint archaeological and ethnographical expeditions were held.. Annual Russo-Japanese symposia of historians and economists are considered to be traditional forms of scholar arrangements between scientists of the Far-Eastern Branches of RAS in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk and their partners from Japan ( Osaka, Kioto) as well as annual Russo-Korean forums that are held in collaboration with the members of Fond of History of Northeastern Asia.

GRADUATE TRAINING CENTER

IHAE is the training center preparing highly-qualified historians for all Far-East. There is graduate school where graduates are majoring in Russian History, World History, Archaeology, Ethnography, Ethnology, Ontology and Theory of Cognition. Nowadays 13 full-time and 7 correspondence students are attend¬ing scholar courses.

Director of above courses is T.V.Krayushkin, Cand.Sc. tel. (4232) 26-40-12 Dissertation Committee of the Institute is the only one in the Far-East that is au¬thorized to confer advanced academic degrees of Doctor of Science and Candiate of Science in the following fields: Archaeology, Russian History, General History(Modern and Recent History), Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology. For all the years of IHAE existence 38 students were conferred advanced aca¬demic degrees of Doctor of Science and 256 students were conferred degrees of Candidate of Science.

IHAE LIBRARY

In 1972 IHAE housed the division of Far-East RAS Library. It comprises diverse academic literature in all fields of study in both Russian( in total 56.489 copies) and foreign languages( Chinese, Korean, Japanese and European ones. -.13778 copies ) There is a huge variety of rare books XVIII — XX centuries, the collection of Chinese xylographs, all scientific works of the Institute, dissertations. It also has a computerized division. The library installed bibliographic computer catalogue giving the access to the universe of information. The library’s aim is to provide the scholars with all necessary data for their research needs.

MUSEUM
In 1979 The Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography was founded as the sub¬division of IHAE, the director of the Museum is Yuriy G. Nikitin. According to its mission statement, this museum is dedicated to the preservation, study and ex¬hibition of huge collections of archaeological and ethnographical specimens, outlying the results of the staff research work. The exhibition showcases more than 100 hundred of astounding finds that are on permanent display in 2 exhibi¬tion galleries.

This exhibition is the most important cultural event in many years that illustrates the life of the eastern Natives from the time of the late Paleolithic epoch ( 30 thousand years ago) and up to the Middle Ages.

The Archaeological gallery contains 3250 exhibits referring to different epochs and theme peculiarities e.g. arms and armor, labor tools, house-wares, collec¬tions of fine art, and the other remains representing how indigenous people perceive their place — spiritually, historically and physically — in the universe. The museum comprises a great collection of fetishes, amulets, mascots belonging to different epochs with images of snakes, hedge-hogs, seals etc and also other unique objects.
The museum has the largest collection of extraordinary discoveries excavated at the site of Bokhai State. The artifacts were on display in Japan and Republic of Korea.

Mention should be made of the unique collection of Medieval discoveries e.g. the Jurchen silver tablet paiza is the main feature of the power of high officials, arms and amour items, mask of warrior, figures of ancestors’ spirits, anti-horse «garlic» spikes, chess, bronze mirrors, stamps, calendars, coins, vessels, axes, weights, brands with Jurchen pieces of writing that the scholars of different coun¬tries are still trying to decode etc . All these huge collection of archaeology spe¬cimens, fine art and unique articles referring to Middle Ages is on display at present.

There is also a section in the Museum that contains the finds excavated at the site of the last expedition of well-known explorer Vitus Bering. This collection attracted wide range of visitors in Denmark and Germany that were curious about the life of the famous scientist and explorer.

The section of Ethnography represents comprehensive collection of unique exhi¬bits demonstrating the culture of native eastern inhabitants and Slavic settlers, e.g. fish-skinned objects, pelts, bones, birch barks as well as shaman tambou¬rines, snake-shaped belts, clothes of the Ulchi and Udeghe minority groups and jewellery, ritual house-ware, hunter’s clothes, musical instruments ,toys etc. Native craftsmen used pelt-processed tools and pelt scrapers to produce clothes, needles for knitting nets, boned instruments to sew footwear and other primitive implements. All mentioned above that represent the Native universe you may see at IHAE museum and appreciate all the values of it.