SUSU is Participating in the Russo-Swiss Conference, “Development of the Urals and Sibiria in the 19th and 20th Centuries”

From June 7th to 11th, the SUSU Scientific and Educational Center "Cultural-Historical Research" and the Faculty of History are hosting a delegation from Switzerland arriving for the International Practical Scientific Conference, “Development of the Urals and Siberia in the 19th and 20th Centuries.”

The group of Swiss students and postgraduates is headed by famous historian and professor of the department of Eastern European History of the University of Basel, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, author of research “Russia’s trip to modernity” about the role of rail construction in the development of the Russian empire, which will soon be published in Russian.

The conference format includes more than just scientific discussion. It also includes an extensive excursion program, as one of the goals for the student group who study the history of Russian rail construction of the 19th and 20th centuries over the course of 6 months, is to become acquainted with Chelyabinsk as the largest historical transit hub between European Russia and Siberia. Throughout the course of a few days, the guests from Basel will be going to museums and sights of Chelyabinsk and its surrounding area, including the “Chelyabinsk-Glavniy” train station complex, the South Ural Rail Road Historical Museum, the SURR Museum of Open Field Exhibits, and the famous Chelyabinsk resettlement point structure.

It is expected that the event, which is planned as part of a multi-year institutional partnership between the University of Basel and SUSU, will become a point of reference for the major international project in the history of migration, “Eurasia in Flux”, rolled out in the history faculty with the 5-100 Project.

Contacts:
Narskiy I.V. 8932-207-35-32,
Khmelevskaya Yu.Yu. 8912-808-24-74.

 

Event dates:

From Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 (all day) until Saturday, June 11th, 2016 (all day).

News contact: Maria Ilyina, Tel.: 267-99-83

Event date: 
Tuesday, 7 June, 2016 - 00:00 to Saturday, 11 June, 2016 - 00:00
Contact person: 
Мария Ильина, тел: 267-99-83
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