Predtechensky A.V. (1893-1966), historian

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PREDTECHENSKY Anatoly Vasilievich (1893-1966, Leningrad), historian, Ph.D. (history) 1941. He came to St. Petersburg in 1908. In 1918, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petrograd University. He worked as a research fellow at the Leningrad section of the Institute of History (1933-53) and the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1953-63). In 1934, he started teaching at Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute and State Leningrad University, appointed a professor of the latter institution in 1937. From 1955 to 1959 he headed the chair of the history of journalism of the philological faculty of the university. His major works dwell on the issues of the socio-political and cultural history of Russia of the first half of the 19th century and the history of science. He wrote The Chronicle of Peter and Paul Fortress (1932), St. Petersburg at the Time of Peter the Great (1948, co-authored), and wrote a number of chapters in the following books: Studies on the History of Leningrad (1955-56), Leningrad. A Brief Historical Outline (1964) etc. He lived at 5 Ochakovskaya Street until 1962, then moved to 5 Tipanova Street, where he lived until his death in 1966. He was buried at Severnoe cemetery.

References: Анатолий Васильевич Предтеченский: Из творч. наследия. СПб., 1999.

A. A. Kononov. Predtechensky Anatoly Vasilievich
Ochakovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Tipanova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Анатолий Васильевич Предтеченский: Из творч. наследия. СПб., 1999 State University, St. Petersburg
Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.
Severnoe Cemetery