The first academician-humanitarian in the Urals

The article is devoted to the 85th anniversary of the famous scientist-historian, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Veniamin Vasilievich Alekseev. His path to big science is considered on examples of university and academic activities, numerous books and speeches at Russian and international forums. The range of historical research by V.V. Alekseeva is wide and distinctive. Their peak came at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries, when Russia experienced a great turning point in its history, and the professional community of historians found themselves at the crossroads of the Soviet and post-Soviet interpretations of the fate of their homeland. In the late 1980s. He founded the Academic Institute of History and Archeology in the Urals and founded the Ural Academic School of Historians, recognized as the leading one in Russia.