The 2024 National Award of the Russian Federationfor outstanding achievements in humanitarian activities was presented to Alexander CHUBARYAN.
Alexander Chubaryan was born on October 14, 1931 in Moscow. He is Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of research at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a holder of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, the Order of Honour (1999), was awarded with the badge For Benevolence (2019) and a Certificate of Merit from the President of Russia (2010), winner of the State Award of the Russian Federation in science and technology (2014) and winner of professional and foreign awards. He is president of the State Academic University for the Humanities, president of the Association of CIS History Institutes, chair of the Association of Teachers of History and Social Sciences, Doctor of History, professor.
An outstanding Russian historian, he is well known in the academic circles of Russian and many Eurasian and American countries. He is among the top experts in the history of relations between Russia and Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries, co-editor of the line of state textbooks for secondary and vocational schools (2023–2025). He supervised work on The Soviet Union’s Peoples and the Great Victory: 1941–1945,” a fundamental publication compiled by the CIS academies of sciences in 2025 which is dedicated to the contribution of the Soviet peoples to the Victory. Alexander Chubaryan’s long years of research and public activities are aimed at overcoming contradictions and consolidating CIS schools of history.
Alexander Chubaryan’s humanitarian activities
An acknowledged researcher having obtained all possible recognition of his merit, Alexander Chubaryan did not shy away from his calling and keeps being actively engaged in diplomacy for science even now when free communication between Russia’s scholars and their foreign colleagues is impeded by their countries’ governments.
Under the Russophobic policy imposed by many European countries to review the role of the USSR in the Second World War, Alexander Chubaryan pursues joint work with foreign scholars with subsequent publications contributing to the preservation of the memory about the feat of the Soviet soldiers liberators. This is a true humanitarian feat in the context of Red Army monuments being routinely demolished in Poland and the Baltic States.
Alexander Chubaryan’s efforts to counter the falsification of history and his involvement in writing a single history textbook for schools go beyond scholarly achievements in history, they are a paragon of serving humanism and humankind for the sake of preserving the truth.