Magistra vitae, 2026 Volume 11, issue 1

HISTORY OF RUSSIA

Local Perspective 

Nikolaeva A. Yu.
The Kizel Coal Basin During the Pre-revolutionary Period

Avdashkin A. A.
Azerbaijanis in the Southern Urals

A Person in History

Nikitina O. A.
To the Origins of Engineering Talent: the Early Biography of Aircraft Designer V. M. Petlyakov (Based on Archival Materials)

The Past in the Cinema and the Media

Philina J. S.
“Minin and Pozharsky” (1939): Film Makers and Historians in the Work Process on the Film

Sherstobitov N. S.
Images of Frontline Everyday Life as a Mechanism for Shaping the Ideological Narrative of War (Based on Materials from the Magazine “Frontovaya Illyustratsiya”)

ARCHAEOLOGY

Petrov F. N., Kupriyanova E. V.
The Ural-Volga Region Archaeological Conference of Students and Young Scientists (UPASC) in 2026: Revisiting the Issue of Student Research Activity

Yakovleva E. S.
The Cult Site of Koshkino V in the Forest-steppe Tobol Region

HISTORY OF HISTORICAL STUDIES

Mitrofanov V. V.
Creative and Personal Communications of S. F. Platonov and V. G. Druzhinin: 1890–1893 (the Publication of Historians’ Letters)

Kholmatov T. K.
Postgraduate Studies at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the Second Half of 1940s — Early 1960s

Tikhonov I. V.
Social and Economic Development Assessments of the Komi-Permiak District in the 20th Century in the Works of Domestic and Foreign Researchers

Yuriev K. A., Ermoshina E. V.
V. A. Franсev’s Farewell to Pre-Revolutionary Slavistics in Three Obituaries

OBITUARY

Petrov F. N.
Alexander Mikhailovich Kislenko (1954–2026): Researcher of the Paleometal Epoch of the Ural-Kazakhstan Steppes