Sevostyanov, Grigory Nikolaevich

He was born in the family of Nikolai Larionovich Sevostyanov, a Cossack officer of the White Army who participated in the “ Ice Campaign ” and died in early 1920 (the exact time and place are unknown). Mother - Melanya Sevostyanova - died in the hospital from a medication mistakenly issued by a nurse. The family had five children. He was brought up by his grandfather Larion Larionovich Sevostyanova, and after his death - his older sister, Tatyana Nikolaevna Sevostyanova (in the marriage of Antonova).

He graduated from school in the village of Gluboky . In 1933 - 1935 - a student of the labor school ( Kamensk , Novocherkassk ). In 1935-1937 he continued his studies at the general technical faculty of the Grozny Oil Institute . Later he entered the electromechanical department of the mining faculty of the Novocherkassk Industrial Institute , where he studied from 1937 to 1940 .

After graduation, he became a teacher at the institute, but did not work long and in the same 1940 joined the army . In 1941 - 1945 he participated in the Great Patriotic War . He took part in hostilities from June 22, 1941. Once surrounded in the Minsk region, he formed a partisan detachment . After the creation of the partisan brigade, the Chekist led its intelligence, and later became the chief of staff. He developed several dozens of sabotage operations, in each of which he took a personal part ^[2] . He was wounded three times, had military awards. In 1944 he joined the CPSU (b) .

After the war, he became a student of the Higher Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1945-1947). In 1948 he entered the graduate school of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1950 he defended his thesis "American Imperialism - an accomplice of Japanese aggression in China (1931-1933)" ^[3] . From 1950 to 1958 he worked at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: until 1954, as a junior, then a senior researcher . In 1952, he was invited concurrently to the Faculty of History of Moscow State University to give a course of lectures on US history, conduct a special course and a seminar on American politics and diplomacy. Associate Professor (1959).

In 1960, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences for his thesis "Politics of the Imperialist Powers in the Far East (July 1937 - December 1941)" ^[4] . In 1964 , he was approved as a professor ^[5] ; headed the US History Department at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences . From 1968 until the end of his life, he was an employee of the Institute of General History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (RAS) : until 1987 - as head of the history sector of the United States and Canada, and subsequently worked as the chief scientific associate of the Institute. In December 1987, he was elected a full member (academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences ^[1] .

From 1970 to 1992, he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR “History of the Foreign Policy of the USSR and International Relations,” and later was chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the history of social reforms, movements and revolutions. In the early 1990s, he headed the All-Union Society of Archivists and an international expert group created jointly with the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Foreign Ministry . First Deputy Academician-Secretary of the Department of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1994-1995), Acting Academician-Secretary (1995-1997). In 1999, together with A. N. Sakharov, he wrote a letter to the then FSB director Vladimir Putin about the need to declassify and publish information reviews of state security agencies on the economic and political situation in the USSR.

From 1971 to 1988, he was the editor-in-chief of the American Yearbook , from 1982 until the end of his life, he was the editor-in-chief of the journal New and Contemporary History . Executive editor of the periodical of the Russian Academy of Sciences “ Historical Notes ” (1999). Editor-in-chief and member of the authorial team of the fundamental four-volume work “History of the USA” (1984–1987) ^[6] .

Died March 12, 2013 in Moscow, at the age of 96. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery ^{[7] [8]} .

• Essays on the new and recent history of the United States. M., 1960 (editor);
• Sevostyanov G.N. Politics of great powers in the Far East on the eve of World War II. M., 1961;
• Sevostyanov G.N. Preparing a war in the Pacific Ocean (September 1939 - December 1941). M., 1961;
• Sevostyanov G. N. The diplomatic history of the Pacific War: from Pearl Harbor to Cairo (1941-1943). M., 1969;
• Sevostyanov G.N., Utkin A.I. USA and France during the war (1939-1945): from the history of relations. M., 1974;
• War of Independence and US Education. M., 1976 (editor);
• Sevostyanov G.N., Utkin A.I. Thomas Jefferson. - M .: Thought , 1976 .-- 392 p. - 45,000 copies.
• Zhukovskaya V. I., Sevostyanov G. N. Behind the front line: about the partisan brigade "Chekist". Minsk, 1981;
• US history. M., 1983-1987 (vols. 1-4, editor);
• American expansionism. M., 1985, 1986 (editor);
• Actual problems of recent history. M., 1991 (editor);
• Sevostyanov G.N. European Crisis and the US Position (1938-1939). M., 1992;
• Kozenko B.D. , Sevostyanov G.N. US History. Samara, 1994;
• Understanding the story. M., 1996 (editor);
• The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945): military-historical essays. M., 1998-1999 (pr. 1-4, editor);
• Sevostyanov G.N. Moscow - Washington: Diplomatic Relations (1933-1936). M., 2002;
• Portraits of historians: time and fate. M., 2002 (vols. 1-2, editor);
• Russia in the XX century Reforms and revolutions in Russia. M., 2002 (vols. 1-2, editor);
• Sevostyanov G.N. Moscow - Washington: on the way to recognition (1918-1933). M., 2004.

Under the leadership of G. N. Sevostyanov, many editions of documents related to the diplomatic history of the 20th century have been prepared:

• "Russia and the USA: trade and economic relations (1900-1930)" (1996),
• “Russia and the United States: Economic Relations (1917-1941)” (1997, 2nd ed. 2001; jointly with E. A. Tyurina),
• “The Spirit of Rapallo: Soviet-German Relations (1925-1933)” (1997),
• “Moscow - Rome: Politics and Diplomacy of the Kremlin (1920-1939)” (2002),
• "Soviet-American Relations (1918-1939)" (vols. 1-3, 2002-2003) and others.

• He was awarded the military orders of the Red Star (1943) and the Red Banner (1948), the Order of the Patriotic War I degree (04/06/1985) ^[9] , the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986), the Order of Honor (2006); medals " Partisan of the Patriotic War ", " For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. ", Commemorative medals" Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "," Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "," Forty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "," 50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "," 60 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "," For valiant work. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin . "
• In 1974, as a member of the team of authors, he was awarded the title of Laureate of the USSR State Prize for Labor “History of the Labor Movement in the USA in Modern Times” (vols. 1-2, 1970-1971).
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1985).

• Grigory Nikolaevich Sevostyanov. - M .: Nauka, 2005 .-- T. 30 .-- 70 s. - ( Materials for the bio-bibliography of scientists . History). - 300 copies. - ISBN 5-02-033195-3 .
• Academician Grigory Nikolayevich Sevostyanov: [obituary] // New and recent history. - 2013.— No. 3. - S. 245-248.
• Memoirs of colleagues and friends about G. N. Sevostyanov // New and recent history. - 2013. - No. 5.
• Tishkov V.A. , Iskhakov S.M. Grigory Nikolaevich Sevostyanov (1916-2013). On the centenary of his birth // New and recent history. - 2016. - No. 4. - S. 126-135.

• Profile of Grigory Nikolayevich Sevostyanov on the official website of the RAS
• An article in the encyclopedia "World History"
• Article in BECM
• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences