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Andrei Nikolaevich Mertsalov was born on August 11, 1922 in Voskresenskoye village, Nizhny Novgorod oblast', Russian Federation.
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Andrei Nikolaevich graduated from the history department of the Kursk State Pedagogical Institute (now Kursk State University) (1953, in absentia).
Career
In 1940-1960 Andrei Nikolaevich served in the army, was a member of the Great Patriotic War. He was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel from the post of deputy chief of the Voronezh garrison House of Officers. In 1960-1967 he worked as a teacher, associate professor of the Voronezh State University. In 1967-1978 he worked in universities of Kaluga, Gorky, Ivanovo. In 1978-1989, he was the leading researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR in the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Research interests: history and historiography of the Second World War. Books: "West German historians and memoirists about the Second World War" (Moscow, 1967), "West German bourgeois historiography of the Second World War" (Moscow, 1978), "The Great Patriotic War in the Historiography of the Federal Republic of Germany" (Moscow, 1989), "G. TO. Zhukov: New Reading or Old Myth" (Moscow, 1994), and others.
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1953