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About Yuri Afanasiev
Yury Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Soviet/Russian historian and one of the leaders of Russia's democratic movement in the late 1980s – early 1990s. He was also the rector of the Moscow State Institute of History and Archives which he transformed in 1991 into the Russian State University of Humanities (RSUH) and led until 2003, making it into one of Russia's most internationally prominent educational institutions.
Everything about Yuri Afanasiev →- Occupation
- politician, historian, university teacher
- Position held
- people's deputy of union of socialist soviet republics
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Born
- September 5, 1934, 1934
- Died
- September 14, 2015