Efim Gertsovich Shulakovsky

Background

Efim Gertsovich Shulakovsky was born on December 29, 1906 in Slutsk, Mahilyowskaya Voblasts', Belarus.

Education

Efim Gertsovich graduated from the socio-historical department of the pedagogical faculty of the Belarusian State University (1931).

Career

Efim Gertsovich was a researcher at the Institute of Party History under the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Belarusian SSR (1931-1937), graduate student of the department of history of the USSR, Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University) (1937-1940). Docent at the department of history of the USSR and dean of the history and philology faculty of Sverdlovsk University (1940-1941).

Efim Gertsovich was a member of the Great Patriotic War. After War was a head (1946-1966), docent (1966-1977) of the department of history of the USSR, associate professor of the department of historiography and source studies (1977-1982), dean of the department of history and philology of Voronezh State University (1947-1949, 1951-1953).

The author of works on Russian revolutionary democrats and the monograph "V.I. Lenin and the working people of the Chernozemic Center"(Voronezh, 1977).

Achievements

• Efim Gertsovich made a significant contribution to the organization of local history research. He was the initiator and editor of the two-volume "Essays on the History of the Voronezh Region" (Voronezh, 1961, 1967). Scientific editor of a number of collections of archival documents published in Voronezh (1950-1960s).