Khristoforov, Vasily Stepanovich

He graduated from the Kazan Higher Military Engineering School and the Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR. Yu. V. Andropova , worked for more than three years at the KGB Representative Office in the Republic of Afghanistan . From the beginning of the 2000s to November 2016, he was the head of the Office of Registration and Archival Funds of the FSB. Since August 2006, he has been working at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a leading researcher , and since December 2008, as a chief researcher; Head of the Center for the publication of sources on the history of Russia of the XX century (since 2007).

He teaches at the Academy of the FSB of Russia and the Russian State Humanitarian University . Since February 1, 2016 - Head of the Department of International Security, Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies of the Historical and Archival Institute of the RSUH . He teaches the courses “Fundamentals of International Security”, “International Conflicts of the XX-XXI Centuries,” “Modern Conflicts in Europe” and “The History of Soviet State Security Bodies 1917-1991.” He also conducts classes on the advanced training program for federal state civil servants of the Office. Council of the Federation , "" politics of history "as the field of public debate, the problem of falsification of history in the context of modern processes"; "Strengthening of the Russian Federation, its international security uvereniteta and territorial integrity "," Afghanistan is in Russia's foreign policy. "

Member of the Presidential Commissions: on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression (since 2005) and on citizenship issues (2006—2016). In AliExpress, he was a member of the Commission for Countering Attempts to Falsify History to the detriment of Russia's interests . Member of the working group to prepare proposals aimed at implementing the program of perpetuation of victims of political repression (2011-2016), by order of the President of the Russian Federation dated February 15, 2016 No. 25-rp was included in the Interdepartmental working group to coordinate activities aimed at implementing the Concept of state policy on to perpetuate the memory of victims of political repression.

Member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Prisoners of War, Internment and Missing (since 2007), head of the working group of the Russian-American Commission on Prisoners of War and Missing Persons - a group on the Cold War period, local conflicts and military operations in Afghanistan (1979-1989 gg.). Since 2007 - Member of the Expert Council No. 5 of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia . Since 2019, a member of the Higher Attestation Commission at the Ministry of Education and Science and a member of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission at the Ministry of Education and Science.

Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences “History of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia” (since 2009), the Scientific Council of the IRI of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011–2016), the Archival Council under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2013), the Bureau of the Institute of Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2017). He is a member of the scientific councils of the RSEA (since 2002), the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. (since 2007), Central State Museum of Modern History (since 2018). In 2016, he was elected a corresponding member of the RAS (nominated for the specialty “History” by academician V.V. Alekseev , corresponding members of the RAS E.I. Pivovar and A.N. Sakharov ), after which he left the civil service.

Member of the joint Russian-Latvian (until 2014), Russian-Austrian, Russian-German, commissions of historians. Speaks Persian and German.

The sphere of scientific interests of V. S. Khristoforov includes the national security of Russia in the context of international and regional security; the history of special services in the context of ensuring the national security of the Russian (Soviet) state; international conflicts of the XX-XXI centuries; Russia's foreign policy in the post-Soviet space , in Central Asia , the Near and Middle East , the latest political and military history of Afghanistan ; examination of the value of archival documents; problems of state secrets , declassification and introduction of scientific documents of state and departmental archives.

In studies on extensive documentary material, he examines questions of the military history of Russia of the 20th century, the main problems of the activities of the Soviet security agencies; draws general conclusions about their contribution to achieving Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Based on his own experience and archival materials, V. S. Khristoforov comprehensively analyzed the socio-political life of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the evolution of Soviet-Afghan relations and the process of peaceful settlement.

solves the problems of declassifying and putting into scientific circulation archival documents of the political and social history of the USSR, including the history of political repressions (about 700 thousand volumes were declassified).

A number of published collections of documents on the history of the war and the problems of combating dissent are based on fundamentally new materials stored in the archives of the security agencies.

The author of about 300 scientific publications, including 14 monographs and about 70 collections of documents. Some of the works were published abroad ( Austria , Hungary , Germany , Italy , Kazakhstan , China , Poland , Finland ).

Monographs

• Counterintelligence agencies "Smersh" in the NKVD of the USSR. 1943-1946 M., 2003;
• Für die Ledenden der Toten gedenken. Dresden: Stiftung Sachsische Gedenkstätten, 2003;
• Zeithain - Gebenkbuch sowjetischer Krigsgefangener. Band 1 Das Krigsgefangenlager Zeithain - vom "Russenlager" zur Gebenkstatte. Dresden: Stiftung Sachsische Gedenkstatten, 2005.
• Widerstand in Österreich 1938-1945. Graz-Wien, 2007;
• Stalingrad. Bodies of the NKVD on the eve and days of the battle. M., 2008;
• Der 17. Juni 1953 im Spiegel sowjetischer Geheimdienstdokumente. Leipziger universitätsverlag, 2008;
• Sotavangit ja Internoidut. Kansallisarkiston artikkelikirja. Painopaikka: Oy Nord Print Ab, Helsinki, 2008;
• Afghanistan. The ruling party and the army 1978-1989. M., 2009;
• Sotatapahtumia, internointeja ja siirto sodanjälkeisiin oloihin. Kansallisarkiston artikkelikirja. Painopaikka: Oy Nord Print Ab, Helsinki, 2010;
• State Security Bodies of the USSR in 1941-1945 M., 2011;
• Der Wiener Gipfel 1961. Kennedy - Chrushtshow. StudienVerlab: Innsbruk-Wien-Bozen. 2011;
• Háború és nemzeti önismeret. 70 éve támadta meg a náci Németország a Szovjetuniót. Budapest: Russia Pannonicanf. 2011;
• The history of the country in the documents of the archives of the FSB of Russia M .: Glavarchive of Moscow, 2013;
• KGB of the USSR in Afghanistan 1978-1989 (On the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan). M., 2014;
• Secrets of the Russian fleet. From the archives of the FSB. M .: Veche, 2014 (in collaboration with A.P. Cherepkov);
• Counterintelligence of the Navy of the USSR. 1941-1945. M., 2015 (in collaboration with D. Yu. Khokhlov and A.P. Cherepkov);
• History of the Soviet state security organs: 1917-1991 - M .: RSUH, 2015;
• Christoforov WS, Makarow WG, Matthias Uhl. Verhort. Die Befragungen deutscher Generale und Offiziere durch die sowjetischen Geheimdienste 1945-1952. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2015;
• Afghanistan: the military-political presence of the USSR 1979-1989 - M., 2016;
• USSR-Finland: confrontation 1941-1944 - M., 2018.

Articles

• The policy of perestroika and the signing of the Geneva agreements on Afghanistan // Perestroika 25 years. The historical memory of modern Russia. M .: RGGU, 2010;
• On the history of the geopolitical confrontation in the North Caucasus // Bulletin of the Russian nation . 2014. No. 1;
• The Afghan problem in the system of international relations // Soviet military presence in Afghanistan (1979–1989): problems of research. - M .: Publishing house of GBU "TsGA of Moscow", 2014;
• Russian-Polish cooperation in the study of complex issues of history of the XX century. // Russia and Poland, common and fragmented / ed. E.I. Pivovara , O.V. Pavlenko. M .: Aspect Press, 2015;
• Behind the curtains of the Soviet-Finnish armistice talks. 1943-1944 // New and recent history . 2015. No. 2. P. 25-43.
• Materials of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia about the artist V. I. Shukhaev // Russian History . 2016. No. 3. P. 177-184.
• Alikhan Bukeikhanov: “I do not like Soviet power ...” (based on materials from the Central Administration of the FSB of Russia) // Bulletin of the Eurasian University named after L. N. Gumilyov. 2016. No. 5 (114). S. 293-297.
• “In order to isolate Alikhan Bukeikhanov from the Kazakh population, send him to Moscow” (based on the materials of the Central Administration of the FSB of Russia) // Russian History. 2017. No. 4. P. 66-74.
• Alash movement among “eastern nationalist organizations”: a look from the Lubyanka of the 1920s - 1930s / Collection of articles of the international scientific conference “From Alash to Independence and National Consolidation of Kazakhstan”, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the movement of Alash and the Government of Alash Orda . Oral: West Kazakhstan Center for History and Archeology, 2017. S. 335-351.
• On the nature of the military-political presence in Afghanistan of the Soviet and American contingents / Asia and Africa: Heritage and modernity. XXIX International Congress on Source Studies and Historiography of Asia and Africa, June 21-23: Materials of the Congress. St. Petersburg: NP-Print Studio, 2017. T. 1. S. 426-433.
• 1917: Security of Russia in the conditions of revolutionary upheavals / Memory of the past - 2017 Materials and reports of the VI historical and archival forum dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the revolution in Russia / Comp. O. N. Soldatova, G. S. Pashkovskaya. Samara, 2017.S. 46-56.
• Public sentiment in the USSR / Country on fire: 3 tons. T. 3. Liberation. 1944-1945: In 2 book. Prince 1. Essays. M.: Abris, 2017. S. 180—197.
• Rehabilitation of the Chechen people in the 1950s. and specifics of the implementation of the Russian rehabilitation legislation / Restoration of the autonomy of Chechen-Ingushetia - the triumph of historical justice. - Collection of materials of the All-Russian scientific conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the reconstruction of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, (Grozny, March 24-25.). - Terrible: AN CR, 2017.S. 301-309.
• Moscow-Grozny: the problem of Soviet modernization of the North Caucasus in the materials of the Soviet special services of the 1920s / The role of North Caucasian cities in the socio-economic, historical and cultural development of the Caucasus. The collection of materials of the All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Forum dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Grozny (the city of Grozny, October 3 / edited by Sh . A. Gapurov , S. S. Magomedov. - Grozny: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic, 2017 S. 271-284.
• Socio-economic development of the city of Grozny in the 1920s. in the materials of the GPU-OGPU of the USSR / Grozny: history and modernity: a historical and ethnographic collection of articles dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the founding of Grozny. Grozny: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2017.S. 38-55.

Compiled and edited

• “Top Secret”: Lubyanka - to Stalin about the situation in the country. 1922-1934 M., 2001-2017 (vols. 1-10, in conjunction with A.N. Sakharov and others);
• “Smersh”: historical essays and archival documents. M., 2005;
• “The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in documents from the archives of the special services”, Warsaw-Moscow, 2007 (jointly with the Institute of National Memory of the Republic of Poland ;
• Wehrmacht generals and officers tell ... Documents from investigative files of German prisoners of war. 1944-1951. M., 2009 (shared with V. G. Makarov);
• Winter war 1939-1940 Research. Documents. Comments ". M.: Academic book, 2009;
• To the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. Research. Documents. Comments M., 2009;
• The great war and the great victory of the people. 1941-1945 M., 2010 (vol. 1-2);
• "Ostracism in a Bolshevik way." The persecution of political opponents in 1921-1924. M., 2010. (shared with V. G. Makarov);
• The prison odyssey of Vasily Shulgin. Materials of the investigation and the case of the prisoner. M., 2010. (jointly with V. G. Makarov and A. V. Repnikov );
• Secrets of diplomacy of the Third Reich: German diplomats, heads of foreign military missions, military and police attachés in Soviet captivity. Documents from investigative files. 1944-1955 M., 2011;
• Wehrmacht on the Soviet-German front: investigative and judicial materials from the archival files of German prisoners of war 1944-1952. M .: Knizhnitsa LLC: Russian Way CJSC, 2011;
• "The Great Patriotic War. 1941: studies, documents, comments. " M., 2011;
• "The Great Patriotic War. 1942: studies, documents, comments. " M., 2012;
• "The Great Patriotic War. 1943: studies, documents, comments. " M., 2013;
• "The Great Patriotic War. 1944: studies, documents, comments. " M., 2014;
• "The Great Patriotic War. 1945: studies, documents, comments. " M., 2015;
• Prison notes by S.P. Melgunov. 1920: a collection of documents. M., 2015;
• EPRON. Documents on the history of the Special Underwater Expedition Expedition at the OGPU USSR (1923-1931): archival documents and materials. M .: Border, 2015.
• Cheka (1917-1922): the centenary of creation / Collection of articles and documents. M., 2017.

Member of the Main Editorial Commission of the fundamental multivolume work “The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (2008–2015), the editorial board of the Military History Journal (since 2010) and the Patriotic Archives magazine (since 2017), and the editorial boards of Russian History magazines "And" Bulletin of Church History . " Member of the Church Scientific Council for the publication of the Orthodox Encyclopedia

• Order of Military Merit (2014);
• Order of Honor (2004);
• Medal "For Courage" (1988);
• medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow” (1998);
• medal “In memory of the 1000th anniversary of Kazan” (2005);
• medal "60 years of the Armed forces of the USSR" (1978);
• medal "70 years of the Armed forces of the USSR" (1988);
• Medal "For Impeccable Service" III, II and I degrees (1981, 1986, 1991)
• Medal “In memory of the 25th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Afghanistan” (2013);
• gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011);
• Breastplate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “To the Warrior-Internationalist” (1988).

Public awards: breastplate “ Honorary Archivist ” (2004), commemorative medal “Patriot of Russia” (2009); Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Right Prince Daniel of Moscow 3rd degree (2002) and 2nd degree (2008). Laureate of the competition for the work of military personnel and civilian personnel of the Federal Security Service in the field of humanitarian sciences for 2013-2014. in the nomination "Scientific and practical work".

Awards of the Republic of Afghanistan: the Order of the Star of the III degree (1987), the medal "For the Good Guard of Borders" (1986) and the " Warrior-Internationalist from the Grateful Afghan People " (1988).

• Profile of Vasily Stepanovich Khristoforov on the official website of the RAS
• Page on the website of the IRI RAS
• Page on the website of RSUH
• Secrets live forever. In the archives of the Lubyanka (interview)
• Between the state and the Fatherland (conversation with Yu.Z. Kantor ) // Star . 2008. No 1
• Shadows of the Iron Crosses (interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta )