Background
TISHKOV, Valery Aleksandrovich was born in 1941 in Sverdlovsk Oblast, USSR.
TISHKOV, Valery Aleksandrovich was born in 1941 in Sverdlovsk Oblast, USSR.
Moscow State University, history, 1964. Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, cand. historical sciences, 1969. Institut, of General History, Academy of the Sciences of the USSR, Doctor, Historical Sciences, 1979.
Chairman of the State Committee for Nationalities Policy, Minister of Russia, since 1992. Lecturer, 1964-1966; senior lecturer, 1969-1972. Research assistent, 1972-1976.
Scientific secretary, 1976-1982. Head of the America Sector, Institut, of Ethnography, Academy of sciences, 1982-1992. Deputy director, Institut, of Ethnography, 1988-1989, director, since 1989.