An open letter from Nina Braginskaya to the rector of the Russian State University, Efim Pivorov. State awards, honorary titles, gratitude

Last week in Central house artist on Krymsky Val took place Grand opening exhibition “Metropolis. Favorites." The exhibition brought together paintings, photographs, graphics, sculpture and other works by leading Russian artists from the Moscow League of Cultural and Artistic Workers "Metropolis".

The exhibition featured works by the vice-president of the Metropolis League, head of the Art Design Educational Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities, member of the Union of Artists of Russia Galina Viktorovna Volkova.
The exhibition works were produced and designed by ProLab.

At the opening, league president Alexander Yakovets noted that the exhibition provided an opportunity to gather authors from various fields creative activity with their vision, emotions and palette of current topics, which they could not ignore and left for themselves, for the viewer as a “fragment of reality” of their life. A. Yakovets emphasized that Metropolis unites more than a hundred artists from all over Russia. He wished the exhibition participants further creative success and fruitful cooperation with the league, and the guests of the event - pleasant emotions from their work.
In her speech, the head of the Art Design Training Center, Galina Volkova, thanked all participants in the exhibition, as well as all visitors for their support, since support and participation are very important for every creative person. She noted that she has been a member of the league since its inception and the formation and development of the union took place before her eyes. Galina Viktorovna noted that the success of the league largely depended on the skill and energy of its creators - Alexander Yakovets and the untimely deceased Georgy Ulanov.
Galina Viktorovna also presented an advance copy of her new album “Sensations”, which is in print, bringing together the author’s photographic works over several years. The design of the publication was created jointly with the league.
She noted that the authors of the league are regular guests and participants in exhibitions at the Russian State University for the Humanities - many university offices are decorated with works by the authors of Metropolis, since the experience of established artists has a beneficial effect on young professionals.
The rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, corresponding member, also spoke at the opening. RAS Efim Pivovar, who emphasized that the university has been implementing the principle of education through art since its creation, therefore the development artistic practices much attention is paid: “We are glad that colleagues from Metropolis choose the audiences of the Russian State University for the Humanities for filming, that our university gives them inspiration. Undoubtedly, the league’s undertakings can be called life-affirming, despite any life circumstances - they do not have the pursuit of accusations that is widespread today, but they have a desire for life and light.”
The Chairman of the Metropolis Coordination and Trustee Council, sculptor Sergei Gai, thanked those present for the warm feedback on the works, and also spoke about the history of the exhibition. The idea and concept of the event belonged to the untimely deceased Georgy Ulanov, the president of the league, but the plan was realized after his death. He noted that the authors themselves chose the works for the exhibition, so it turned out to be very personal.
Chairman of the Moscow Union of Designers Alexander Faldin congratulated the organizers on the successful exhibition in one of the main exhibition halls in Russia. Alexander Faldin presented the Metropolis League and its president with an honorary diploma for their contribution to the development of photographic art.

(based on materials from the website www.rggu.ru)

In November of this year, the results of monitoring the activities of federal educational institutions of higher professional education, which was carried out by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, were published. Many who learned the results were surprised and shocked by who was included in the list of ineffective universities. Let's try to understand the reasons for this without unnecessary emotions.
In August-September, the Ministry of Education and Science collected from everyone state universities information about their activities. There are many reasons for this, including the desire of the owner (the state) to make the work of universities more efficient and useful for the population, because a number of educational institutions have long forgotten what they are actually supposed to do. The criteria for evaluating universities were called performance indicators. It included the following information, consisting of 5 large blocks: educational activities, research activities, international activities, financial and economic activities and infrastructure. Each section includes from 4 to 17 points. The data was taken as of that time, i.e. for September of this year.
Among the universities whose inefficiency has been the subject of much fuss is the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU). Many people have a question: why an educational institution that has almost a 100-year history and is quite popular among current applicants was included in the list of “bad universities.”
Immediately after the information appeared in the media, a wave of indignation began, mainly coming from students who did not expect to find themselves in a low-quality educational institution. It’s not their fault, it’s just that the university where they became a student turned out to be not as good as it was presented. The only thing that upset the students more was the multiple management of the university, from the rector and vice-rectors to a huge number of directors, deans and various other bosses, who risk losing their jobs that they have held for years, and sometimes decades, with this development of events. In many ways, they emanated a wave of information about a conspiracy of enemies against the university who wanted to destroy a unique educational institution. But the enemies, as often happens, are not outside, but inside. The truth is that the enemies are not the leadership, but students, graduate students and ordinary workers. What got everyone so excited and how bad is everything really at the university?
Let's start with criterion 1 - educational activities. The court included various indicators regarding university enrollment, the number of graduate students, the quality of teachers, etc. If the formal criterion with the average Unified State Examination score at the Russian State University for the Humanities is more or less the case, it is higher than the minimum required, then the essence of the university admission system itself is shocking.
Due to its status as a university, the university has quite a lot of budget places, but applicants should not be deceived about their chances of admission. For a number of specialties, or as they are now called, almost all budget places were occupied by winners of Olympiads, not all-Russian, but intrauniversity, i.e. which are carried out by the university itself, and the results are calculated by its employees. For example, international relations, where 45 Olympiad winners were enrolled, jurisprudence - 25 people, advertising and public relations 13. In total, there were about 500 winners and prize-winners of the RSUH Olympiads, i.e. with a reserve for everyone who wants to enter bypassing the state Unified State Examination system. The advantages of such admission: you can pass the Unified State Exam at school with a minimum positive number of points, and if you “solve the issue” with the leadership of the faculty summing up the results of the Olympiad, admission to a university is guaranteed.
If the parents realize it too late, then they can include the child in various groups of beneficiaries and thus get him into the university. How this is done at the Russian State University for the Humanities was shown in Boris Sobolev’s film “At the Day of Knowledge 2” on the TV channel “Russia 1” on June 4, 2012. The hero of that show, the dean of the department of international relations of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Marina Vladimirovna Oparina, offered to enroll in a university by registering the child as disabled. Moreover, she negotiated to enter a cafe right next to the university. The feeling of complete permissiveness is a typical feeling of most university bureaucrats. They've been doing this for years. Moreover, who can doubt the integrity of admission to such an ancient and reputable university? And the rector is constantly on radio and television, how can such people commit vicious acts?
With a master's degree it's even easier. Applicants, as in the golden times for the university bureaucracy before the Unified State Exam, decide everything for themselves. Commissions are created within the university to take oral and written examinations. The exam is taken by 1, rarely 2, people, since it is difficult to find a larger number of trusted persons who will evaluate the results of the answer in the required way, plus the event itself must remain profitable. The oral exam is quite simple - everything is at the subjective discretion of the examiners. Writing is not much more difficult. The applicant fills out the test with a specific pen, which makes it easier for the examiners to correct the answers. This system leads to the fact that among the applicants there are a lot of geniuses who scored 100 out of 100 possible points on one exam.
The next criterion of the Ministry of Education and Science and the real prestige of the university is the number of foreign students. Their minimum number should be only 3% of the total number of students. At the Russian State University for the Humanities, it is just over 2%, and the vast majority are citizens of the CIS, who are generally classified as a separate group. In real numbers, there are only about 300 foreign students at the university.
The bulk of the specialties in which the university teaches are not unique; training in them is carried out in the vast majority of universities, both public and private. These are management, personnel management, state and municipal administration, law, economics, finance and credit, etc. and so on. What the university tries to present as unique is also not always so. Other universities also provide training in history, philology, documentation and archival studies, oriental studies and African studies. At RSUH itself, groups of students in these specialties are extremely small. Sometimes the number of students reaches 5-6. This is especially true for the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law (FIPP), which generally duplicates all other departments of the university.
Even during the assessment educational activities The quality of teachers is taken into account. How many candidates and doctors. But the most interesting thing here is not the formal number of people with academic degrees, but the profile of their education. Things are not going well here, especially in popular faculties, where, for the above-mentioned reasons, all godfathers are trying to enroll as teachers. Management is taught by specialists in radio communications and broadcasting, various types management document specialists, jurisprudence biologists, information technology in management there are philologists, they are also responsible for all science at the Faculty of Management, the list goes on for a long time. Not to mention the fact that these people have never worked outside of this university, but they teach applied, practice-oriented disciplines to students and teach them how to manage a company and the state. I wonder if parents knew which specialists would teach their children?
Criterion 2 - research activities. The university did not master this parameter either. This includes such indicators as the number of publications by teachers in various publications and the volume of scientific developments in monetary equivalent per one scientific and pedagogical worker. Most of the works at the university are co-authored by 2-3 people, although there are also more authors; the articles have the nature of abstracts of several pages and are published in the collections of the university, where everything is included. In addition, teachers have little motivation to write, because... the salaries of people who write and actively speak at various conferences and idle people are the same. As for money for scientific development, most university employees have never seen it. Intra-university grants are distributed on the principle of “fairness”, so few people have enough. And external ones, even if a person received them once, he is unlikely to want to repeat this experience. The system is designed in such a way that without papers signed by the leadership of the faculty, institute and university, a teacher cannot submit documents to all-Russian and international competitions. He, who will have to actually maintain all the documentation and carry out scientific developments and discoveries, is joined by the dean, his deputy, the director, sometimes the vice-rector or rector, which makes the whole event pointless. An ordinary teacher cannot receive more compensation than management. The management will not work the other way around. Therefore, he will have to carry the entire project alone for pennies. Such experience discourages the desire for scientific grants for a long time.
Criterion 3 - financial and economic activity. This is the most interesting thing. Many residents of the country could hear the speech of the Chairman of the Government of the country V. Putin at a meeting with rectors of higher educational institutions in February 2012 about the need to increase the salaries of university teaching staff from September to a level not lower than the average for the regional economy. The state has allocated an additional 2.65 billion rubles to increase teachers' remuneration funds. In many universities the situation with salaries has changed, but at the Russian State University for the Humanities for ordinary teachers it remains just as deplorable. The Minister of Education and Science D. Livanov pointed this out to the rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities E. Pivovar at a meeting in November of this year. It seems that the minister did not share the generosity of the university management, which established an allowance for ordinary teachers from 2,000 to 3,700 rubles per month, depending on their position, for the period of October-December.
In total, the university has 1,900 teachers, half of whom have their main place of work in another organization. The usual monthly salary of an ordinary teacher without taxes is about 18 thousand rubles, a candidate of sciences for the position of associate professor is about 29, a doctor of sciences for the position of professor is 35. Which in all cases is less than the average salary in Moscow of 45.6 thousand rubles.
From the information on the RSUH website and speeches by the rector E. Pivovar, teachers learned that the average salary at the university is 48.6 thousand rubles. But most teachers have never received such a significant amount for their hard work. Where did she come from? The answer is quite simple: you just need to remember folk wisdom about the chicken - someone ate two, others none, in the end it turns out that everyone enjoyed one chicken. The situation is approximately the same at the university, only not every second person eats here, but at best every twentieth person eats here.
In 2011, the university spent 1,639.4 million rubles on wages and other payments. Even if we count that the university has 1,000 full-time workers and another 1,000 part-time workers at half and quarter pay, then each person should receive 1 million 93 thousand rubles per year or 91 thousand rubles per month. Therefore, if the monthly income of the majority is less than 30 thousand, then the remaining two-thirds is received by someone else. Who could it be?
Probably the one who holds a leadership position at the university, although it would be more correct to say positions, because Few of the top confine themselves to one. The top three in terms of the number of management positions are as follows. 1st place – Nadezhda Ivanovna Arkhipova – Director of the Institute of Economics, Management and Law; Dean of the Faculty of Management; Head of the Department of Organizational Development; Head of the Department of State and Municipal Administration. 2nd place - Logunov Alexander Petrovich - Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law; Head of the Department of History of Modern Russia; Head of Department, Department of Culture, Peace and Democracy. 3rd place – Pavel Petrovich Shkarenkov – Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology; Head of the Department of History ancient world; Director of the Educational and Scientific Center for Global Studies and Comparative Studies. Having two leadership positions is the norm for a university. Namely the leadership ones, because certain deans and heads of departments are still listed as professors in the departments of their friends. Almost everywhere there is a combination of the positions of dean of the faculty and head of one of the departments of the faculty. For all these positions, the leaders of everything and everyone get paid. If we add to this number positions in the leadership of dissertation councils and other structures, then the total number of positions will be terrifying. The most disgusting thing is that these people are not at all embarrassed by such a number of positions, but on the contrary, they boast about it, talking about their universal demand.
In addition to the desire to take as many lucrative positions as possible, nepotism is no less widespread at the Russian State University for the Humanities. The record holder here by a wide margin is the director-dean-head of the department-head of the department Arkhipova N.I. Her daughter, Irina Nikolaevna Krapchatova, is the head of the department of criminal law and procedure and the head of the forensic laboratory at the institute headed by her mother. And her husband, Alexander Ivanovich Krapchatov, heads the laboratory of active teaching methods (business games) at the mother-in-law institute. By the way, this unit is unique for the university. It has nothing to do with the laboratory or active games, only with the activity of the mother-in-law and her passion for universal control and enrichment. The functions of this division are to service office equipment and purchase cartridges, which for all other institutes and faculties are carried out by specialized departments of the university.
Surely every applicant to the Russian State University for the Humanities was surprised, and then for a long time tried to figure out why the university recruits several faculties for the same specialties? Everything is simple: firstly, thieves and relatives are not some unique specialists, but, as a rule, graduated from the most popular specialties, so if a suitable place is taken, then it is necessary to come up with another one of the same kind; secondly, not every dean is able to find clients to fill all budget places, so they need to be divided. The most interesting here is the department of history, political science and law that we have already mentioned more than once, which occupies an entire floor in one of the buildings of the Russian State University for the Humanities and consists of the following departments: history and theory of state and law (at the same time, the university has an entire law faculty of 6 departments), theory and practice of public relations (duplicates the much larger department of marketing and advertising at the Faculty of Management), the modern East (the university has an Institute of Philology and History and the Institute of Oriental Cultures and Antiquity), history and theory of historical science (there are already many history departments at the university ), theoretical and applied political science, social communications and technology; culture, peace and democracy.
Criterion 4 – infrastructure. Each student must have at least 13 square meters. meters of buildings, in the Russian State University for the Humanities less than 10 square meters. meters. And this despite the fact that this indicator took into account all the premises available at the university. But most of the premises are not intended for students at all. University students and teachers are well aware of the conditions in which they have to study: small, stuffy, shabby rooms and basements. There is only one building at the university, and even then it is not completely devoted to study – the 2nd. True, there are only 2 elevators and two-thirds of the university students have classes, so you either have to walk to the 8th-9th floors or wait in line for an elevator for 20 minutes. The rest consists almost entirely of offices, offices of third-party companies, rooms and dormitories for strangers walking along the corridors in a towel after showering. At the same time, management at all levels works in large, luxuriously decorated offices with spacious reception areas with several secretaries. The rector's apartments, for example, are decorated in a classical style like those in the best palaces in the world and reach several hundred meters. At the same time, teachers, together with undergraduate and graduate students, mixed with laboratory assistants and methodologists, huddle in small departments and corridors.
This is what the Russian State University for the Humanities looks like at a quick glance. It’s a shame, but a university with unique roots and history represents little positive in the present, and thoughts about the future can cause nothing but pain. You can vehemently criticize the criteria for evaluating universities, saying that they are bad and biased, and offer your own, according to which the university is doing well. You can be cunning, they say, then we had bad indicators, but in 2 months we changed everything dramatically. This is deceit. All educational institutions were on equal terms and the vast majority of strong universities were included in the lists of effective ones. But something always gets in the way of a bad dancer...

RSUH staff and teachers

N.V. Braginskaya - E.I. To the brewer:

Dear Efim Iosifovich, back in the spring I was amazed to find on the RSUH website the “Code of Ethics and Official Conduct of Teachers and Other Employees of the RSUH” approved by order of February 26th. This code was discussed by the anti-corruption commission, in which, except for you as its Chairman, there is not a single teacher. And these administrators, Vice-Rector Volkov, heads of accounting, legal personnel, property, regional and other departments, must consider cases of violation of ethics and rules of conduct by teachers and impose disciplinary sanctions. That's how I see this picture.

The minutes of the commission meeting in the same section of the website say that in February it was decided to submit this Code for discussion by the Academic Council. According to information from the secretariat of the Academic Council, the Code was never discussed. Meanwhile, when concluding contracts, the Human Resources Department offers to sign a document confirming familiarization with local regulations, including the Code.

Meanwhile, local regulations adopted without observing the procedure for taking into account the opinions of the representative body of employees established by Article 372 T of the Code are not subject to application. the federal law dated June 30, 2006 No. 90-FZ “On Amendments to the Labor Code Russian Federation, recognizing certain normative legal acts of the USSR as no longer in force on the territory of the Russian Federation and some legislative acts (provisions of legislative acts) of the Russian Federation having lost force” (as amended on December 18, 2006, April 20, 2007).

Frankly, among the compilers of the code, I did not find a single person who even remotely possessed such moral authority as to allow him not only to dictate ethical standards by order, but even to propose them for consideration.

The Code of Ethics contains unconstitutional norms that limit human rights, for example 2.1.13-15, as well as meaningless norms, for example, to comply with laws and other regulations of the Russian Federation (2.1.5). Laws do not need to be protected by a code of conduct; they have more effective protection mechanisms.

I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that teachers convicted of forging their qualifying papers, dissertations, and assisting others in such forgeries are honored professors of the Russian State University for the Humanities and occupy leadership positions, although not only is the immoral side of their activities obvious, but its corruption component is also likely. The Code says nothing about this topical problem for our university, and you, as its Chairman, are not taking any measures.

But the point is not only in the legal, ethical and linguistic level of the text of the Code, and not only in the way it is imposed by administrators on teachers and other employees.
The point is that up to their gray hair I myself chose which standards to follow, and I will continue to do so. I am ready to discuss with my colleagues those actions of mine that they consider unethical, and listen to their opinions. But by its nature, ethics is subject to codification, much like inspiration. A person’s inner beliefs can be influenced, they can and should be educated, but they cannot be prescribed. Listen to me at least as a translator and commentator of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: ethical standards cannot be imposed, like laws or traffic rules. This is a fallacy, and although various authorities persist in it, they do so in vain. Still, ethics cannot be imputed. Or it's not ethics.

Thus, no code orders either you or the Institute of History and Archives to stand up for Sergei Vladimirovich Mironenko, your colleague, a worthy man, when an attack began on him because of the well-known incident with the falsification of the “feat of the 28 Panfilov men.” But they “came” for the professional honor of historian-archivists. If they didn’t stand up, it means they didn’t stand up, it’s a matter of conscience. But your statement on behalf of the Russian State University for the Humanities, and therefore mine and my colleagues, about the readiness of our university to participate in a propaganda watch in defense of the “correct myths”, this can no longer be allowed. No, Efim Iosifovich, at least don’t decide such things for us. The unwritten code of ethics does not allow this.

Best wishes,
N. Braginskaya.

Efim Iosifovich Pivovar - professor of history, doctor of historical sciences, specialist in modern history, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also combined the excellent qualities of a leader and just a good person. Numerous friends and colleagues speak of Efim Iosifovich as a kind and cheerful person.

Childhood

In 1956, like many others his age, he went to the first grade of school No. 1150, which was located in the Moscow region in the city of Perovo. Now this is the territory of Moscow.

Despite the fact that there were no representatives of science in the family of Efim Iosifovich Pivovar, even from his school days the future professor dreamed of becoming a historian. It all started with a passion for archaeology. In the fourth grade, he read the book “Entertaining Archeology” by Mongait, which shocked him. Further acquaintance with science continued by reading books about the Qumran manuscripts, which made a huge impression on the student.

Favorite teachers

Efim Iosifovich was very lucky with his history teachers, he remembers them even now. Madlena Aleksandrovna, who was a terror to all students, taught “The Ancient World” in the fifth grade.

The second teacher, Nadezhda Pavlovna, seeing the child’s thirst for knowledge, appointed him as an archivist for the school club. The boy first came to the archives of the Moscow Museum; he got acquainted with the archives of his native city of Perovo. The student learned the history of the formation of the city, the origins of its name. He became interested in the legends associated with his small homeland.

And today, when Efim Iosifovich has to be in the archive, he experiences some kind of thrill from being within these walls, regardless of what data he is studying at that moment.

The last history teacher was Zinaida Ivanovna Chernyakova, with whom the historian had the good fortune to meet at the present time and, in gratitude for the knowledge gained, to present the author’s textbook.

Passion for archeology

IN school years, continuing to be interested in archaeology, E.I. Pivovar more than once took part in archaeological excavations.

Immediately after graduating from school, he entered Moscow State University at the Faculty of History, where he studied with such respected teachers in historical circles as V. Z. Drobizheva and I. D. Kovalchenko.

Here, remaining true to his interests, the young man joined the scientific student society of archaeologists. But his uncle, who was an engineer, convinced the guy to look away from the history of antiquity and pay attention to the history of the 20th century. And the school teacher Zinaida Ivanovna, too, with a little grin, said: “What is this - archeology?” Having listened to their words, the future scientist refocused on studying the history of the twentieth century and has been doing so to this day.

After graduating from university, the young historian decided to continue developing in this direction and entered graduate school at the Institute of History, and then defended his Ph.D. thesis.

Fast-paced career

In the period from 1973 to 1986, E.I. Pivovar headed several departments in the magazine "History of the USSR".

In 1986, he was hired by the Moscow State Institute of History and Archives, where in ten years he was able to make a rapid career: from senior lecturer to department head, dean and, finally, vice-rector for scientific work.

In his further professional biography, Pivovar Efim Iosifovich gave several courses of lectures on history abroad during the period from 1990 to 1993. He taught at the universities of Chicago, Illinois, Michigan State and others.

In 1997, Pivovar Efim Iosifovich was accepted to the position of professor at the Faculty of History at Moscow State University. And two years later he became deputy dean of the history department of Moscow State University.

Since 2004, Pivovar E.F. has headed the department of history of near-abroad countries at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

In 2005, Professor Pivovar took the position of head of the department of post-Soviet countries.

Russian State Humanitarian University

In 2006, Efim Iosifovich Pivovar was appointed rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities. He received this position through a secret vote of the university conference, which came as a complete surprise to the professor. The Ministry of Education and Science reacted very favorably to this election.

The Russian State Humanitarian University was founded in 1991.

By the time Pivovar was elected rector, the university had acquired scandalous fame, and the professor’s main task was to preserve the university.

Merits of the rector

During the leadership of Pivovar, RSUH developed international relations very successfully. Each year, thousands of students and teachers participated in international exchange. Cooperation with universities in Germany was especially active. Upon completion of their studies within the framework of this project, students received a double diploma. This was the first experience for Russia of receiving diplomas from two universities simultaneously in the humanitarian field.

In the photo, Pivovar Efim Iosifovich presents a diploma to a graduate of the Russian State University for the Humanities.

In 2010, the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed a Decree awarding the Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities E.I. Pivovar with the Order of Friendship.

Teachers who had previously left the Russian State University for the Humanities for various reasons began to return to the university. The university has expanded its staff of foreign professors. The number of lectures given in foreign languages ​​has increased.

In 2011, the professor was re-elected as rector for a second term. The overwhelming majority of delegates to the elective conference voted for him.

In 2016, E.I. Pivovar’s tenure as rector came to an end, and he could no longer be re-elected.

On May 3, 2018, Efim Iosifovich Pivovar was awarded the Order of Honor for his services in conducting scientific and pedagogical activities and training qualified specialists.

Personal life

Galina Viktorovna Volkova, wife of Efim Iosifovich Pivovar, is also a historian by training. They studied on the same course at Moscow State University, where they met. Even in her student years, Galina became interested in photography and began to develop this talent.

Galina Volkova has been abroad a lot, and expressed her impressions in her works.

Many of Volkova’s photographs are in private collections different countries peace.

Since 2006, she has been working at the Russian State University for the Humanities as the head of the photo center. Heads the Art Design department. He is a member of the Creative Union of Artists and a member of the creative association "Metropolis".

Contribution to science

E.I. Pivovar made a great contribution to the study of the history of the Fatherland in the 20th and 21st centuries. He took part in the formation of the Russian school of quantitative research methods in the field of history. He led research that was of significant importance for studying the biographies of Russian emigrants and Russian diaspora in the 20th century, as well as studying the history of the countries of the post-Soviet space.

Participated in International Congresses of Historical Sciences, conferences, and colloquiums.

Gave courses of lectures in foreign countries.

Sixteen candidate dissertations were defended under the guidance of the professor. He has been a consultant for three doctoral dissertations.

In conclusion, I would like to note that Pivovar Efim Iosifovich is certainly a specialist of the highest category in his field. But, besides this, he also combined the excellent qualities of a leader and just a good person. Numerous friends and colleagues speak of Efim Iosifovich as a kind and cheerful person. And such qualities as intelligence, business acumen and responsiveness are quite rarely combined in one person.

On December 11, the Russian State University for the Humanities hosted a presentation of an art album of photographs by the vice-president of the Metropolis League, head of the educational and scientific center "Art-Design" of the Russian State University for the Humanities, member of the Union of Artists of Russia Galina Viktorovna Volkova "Sensations". This book is the result of Galina Viktorovna’s long and hard work together with the Moscow League of Cultural and Artistic Workers “Metropolis”.

The presentation was opened by the rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, corresponding member. RAS Efim Pivovar, who congratulated Galina Viktorovna on this significant event, noting that the Art Design Center always pleases with its works. He explained how long the project took to prepare and how much effort was put into its implementation: “I watched from the sidelines and saw how difficult it was to choose the best from a huge number of materials.” The rector also noted that the work was produced and published entirely in Russia, which is undoubtedly a reason for pride.

Speaking at the presentation, Director of the Educational and Scientific Center for Visual Anthropology and Egohistory, Honored Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities N.I. Basovskaya spoke about her long-term friendship with Galina Viktorovna and how the project developed: “What was initially just a hobby for a person who does many other things, before my eyes turned into a passion, and then into a profession. And this transformation is an encouraging example for many people.” She also noted that now it is necessary to rely on eternal values, such as the beauty presented in this work.

Director of the Institute of Mass Media N.K. Svanidze drew attention to the fact that the collection of photographs turned out to be “internally free.” In his opinion, the author of the photographs has this inner freedom, and she likes everything she sees.

Galina Viktorovna was also congratulated by the director of the Institute of General History of the Russian State University for the Humanities, member of the supervisory board of the Russian State University for the Humanities, academician A.O. Chubaryan. He described the publication of the collection as an extraordinary event both for the university and for humanities generally. Alexander Oganovich noted that design is now an entire scientific direction, and such projects help instill in young people a taste for art, life, and beauty.

Director of the Museum Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Deputy Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkina I.V. Bakanova paid special attention to the fact that “a person lives and feeds on impressions,” and admitted that the exhibition and collection aroused a lot of positive feelings in her. She emphasized that a photographer and a teacher are a rare combination in one person, and noted the special “photo narrative” in the collection. Irina Viktorovna also pointed out the importance of the release of this album as cultural heritage and a source of inspiration for RSUH students.

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Director of IAI A.B. Bezborodov called the collection “a work of art, a very multifaceted source of positive feelings.” He congratulated Galina Viktorovna, as well as the staff of the Faculty of Art History. Alexander Borisovich also said that this event is the result of a creative synthesis that underlies the university with an extraordinary educational process. According to him, thanks to the efforts of Galina Viktorovna and her team, the university preserves traditions and uses new technologies to teach students creative specialties.

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Director of the Institute of Economics and Management N.I. Arkhipova noted how the title of the collection of photographs corresponds to its content: “Each photograph here is truly a feeling, a personal attitude towards the image of the artist himself, this is empathy.” She noted that each frame of the album is capable of evoking a lot of emotions in a person, touching the soul, and once again congratulated everyone on the release of the collection.

Vice-Rector for International Innovation Projects V.I. Zabotkina emphasized that each photograph in the collection carries a whole picture of emotions conveyed by the author, and also noted that the album is a reflection of the author: “Every meeting with Galina Viktorovna is always a pleasant surprise, it’s always a lot of emotions.”

Many more warm words were addressed to the photographer. Galina Viktorovna herself thanked everyone present for the congratulations and support that she received throughout the preparation of the collection, and also invited everyone to the presentation of the collection “Sensations” at Mosfilm on December 18. Everyone was also given copies of the album signed by the author.