Scientist and Organizer of Science. On the 70th Anniversary of Yu.A. Petrov

Yuri Aleksandrovich Petrov is a prominent Russian historian, since 2010 the director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2025 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Petrov made a great contribution to the study of the economic history of Russia in the 19th – early 20th centuries, the history of entrepreneurship, the banking sector. His works on the activities of leading Moscow manufacturers and financiers reveal not only a high level of organization of their business, but also the existence of a well-defined political program aimed at the progressive development of the country. Y.A. Petrov also organized major scientific projects, including those of an encyclopedic nature. As the director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he initiated the creation of the twenty-volume History of Russia and led the work on its preparation.