- Gennady Osipov
Gennady Vasilievich Osipov (b.
June 27 ,1929 in Ruzaevka, Mordovia) – a Russian scientist, sociologist and philosopher,Ph.D. ,Professor , full member (academician ) of theRussian Academy of Sciences /RAS/ since 1991; Director of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPR RAS); President of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences (RASS); member of RAS Social Sciences Department Bureau; President of the Eurasian International Association; member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Security Council; Honorary President of the Russian Sociological Association.G. Osipov graduated fromMoscow State Institute of International Relations /MGIMO-University/ in 1952.Thanks to his organizational and scientific activities,sociology has become a vital component of humanitarian andsocial sciences . Academician G. Osipov was the first to initiatesociological research in theUSSR and stood behind the first Soviet sociological journal Sotsialnye issledovaniya (Social research) published since 1967. He made a major contribution to the development of theoretical and methodological basis of scientific analysis of the socio-political situation inRussia with due regard for foreign sociological thought. In the 1960-70s he initiated the translation of the papers by American and British sociologists into Russian.G. Osipov is the author of the first Russian textbook on sociology – Rabochaya kniga sotsiologa (Sociologist’s handbook) which was translated into various languages. He penned over 250 scientific works on crucial issues of sociology and philosophy.He initiated the establishment of two Institutes: The Institute of Sociology under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and theInstitute of Socio-Political Research (ISPR RAS).Awards and Prizes
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Order of Honor
*Order of Friendship
*Speransky Gold Medal.External links
* [http://www.ras.ru/index.aspx?_Language=en Russian Academy of Sciences]
* [http://www.ispr.ru/ The Institute of Socio-Political Research]ources
* [http://www.ispr.ru/ZNAMDAT/Congrat/Osipov/Osipov_biogr.htmlG. Osipov’s biography] (in Russian)
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