Researcher of the history of Siberia Valery Anatolyevich Skubnevsky

The article is dedicated to Valery Anatolyevich Skubnevsky, an outstanding researcher of the history of Siberia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation. Valery Anatolyevich is a native Siberian, was born on August 16, 1945 in Kemerovo. In his childhood and youth, he lived in Rubtsovsk and Kharkov. In 1966, he graduated with honors from the History Department of Barnaul State Pedagogical Institute. From 1967 to 1969, he was a postgraduate student at the Department of History of the USSR at Tomsk State University. In 1969-1975, he was a junior researcher, then a senior researcher at the Problematic Research Laboratory of History, Archeology and Ethnography of Siberia at Tomsk State University. His PhD thesis was defended in 1971 under the guidance of A.P. Borodavkin on the topic "Socio-economic development of the city of Barnaul during the period of capitalism. 1861-1914." While working at TSU, he was a member of the creative group of the Problem Laboratory for the preparation of the multi-volume "History of the Working Class of Siberia", led the relevant sector of the problem laboratory. In the course of his research on the history of the proletariat, he wrote a number of articles, the main result of which was the book "The Working Class of Siberia in the Pre-October Period" (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1982) and a doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Workers of the Siberian manufacturing industry. The 1890s-February 1917." defended in 1992 at TSU. Since 1975, Skubnevsky was invited to work at the new Altai State University as a senior lecturer. From 1989 to 2009, Valery Anatolyevich worked as the head of the Department of National History at AltSU. His professorial lecture courses were devoted to the history of Russia and Siberia, entrepreneurship and urban studies. Under the guidance and advice of V.A. Skubnevsky, 5 doctoral and 18 candidate theses were defended. He is the author and co-author of about 450 scientific and popular scientific works - monographs, encyclopedic dictionaries, textbooks, articles. Valery Anatolyevich is a recognized expert on the history of industry, the main classes of industrial society - the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the cities of Siberia, and the local history of Altai. The provisions and materials developed by him are included in generalizing works on the history of Siberia, Altai, and the economic history of Russia. The scientist and teacher, he celebrates his 80th birthday at the workplace of a professor of the Department of National History of Altai State University, continues to share knowledge and thoughts on the history of the country and Altai with young colleagues. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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