Membership in state academies of sciences, academic degree, academic title:

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Place of work, position:

Director of the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professional activity:

Igor Vasilyevich Poberezhchikov joined the Institute upon its establishment in 1989 and rose through the ranks from senior research fellow to director. From 1995, he was head of the Department of Russian History of the 16th-19th Centuries. From 2009, he headed the Methodology and Historiography Sector. From September 1, 2018, to the present, he has been director of the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Igor Vasilyevich is a recognized expert in the field of historical research methodology, having made significant contributions to the development of modernization theory and its application. His research interests also include regional development and the social and economic history of Russia. He developed a problem-based methodology for studying modernization in a civilizational and national context at the macro-, meso-, and microhistorical levels; formulated a theoretical and methodological model for studying modernization in the regional dimension; developed the concept of frontier modernization, which is realized in the context of incomplete territorial development; developed an actor-based approach to analyzing modernization transformations, focused not on anonymous processes and trends, but on social and institutional-organizational driving forces. He identified the factors varying modernization processes at the civilizational, national, and regional-local levels. He identified patterns and mechanisms of the transition from a traditional to an industrial society in Russia, taking into account regional variability, changing forms of interaction between the state and society, the multiplicity of driving forces of modernization and the preservation of the development syndrome, as well as the relationship between development and exploration, using the material of the eastern peripheral regions of Russia during the imperial period. Based on the developed system of criteria, he identified the stages of integration of the Ural region into the national space. He studied the integration of the rural population into mining production in the Urals and Siberia in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, as well as the role of the Cossacks in the development of Russia's eastern regions. He analyzed various forms of social protest, imposture, popular mentality, and rumors as a form of social communication in Russia's eastern regions in the 18th and 19th centuries. He traced the evolution of territorial-administrative systems and forms of interaction between government and society in the Urals in the 18th and 19th centuries. I.V. Poberezhnikov is the author of over 400 scholarly works, including 36 monographs, published in Russia and abroad.

I.V. Poberezhnikov is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Bureau of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences (DHIPS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Joint Academic Council for Humanities of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Co-Chairs of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences for Economic History, member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council for Complex Problems of Modern History and Culture of Eurasia at the DHIPS of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Council for Regional Policy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Ural Historical Bulletin," and a member of the editorial boards and boards of several other academic journals. In 2024, he was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland," 2nd Class.