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World War I in the History and Culture of Russia and Europe WORLD WAR I IN THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF RUSSIA AND EUROPE Programme International Conference 25—26 October, 2013 Kaliningrad / Gusev 24 October, 2013 ACCOMMODATION OF PARTICIPANTS IN HOTELS “TOURIST”, “KALININGRAD”, “OLD KOENIGSBERG” 19:00 – 21:00 Cathedral ORGAN CONCERT FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS Kant Island 25 October, 2013 09:30 – 10:00 CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY Conference Hall IKBFU PROF. ANDREY P. KLEMESHEV 2 Universitetskaya STR. Rector, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University WELCOMING SPEECHES NIKOLAY N. TSUKANOV GOVERNOR OF THE KALININGRAD REGION STANISLAV S. VOSKRESENSKIY Deputy Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation PANEL DISCUSSION 10:00 – 11:20 10:00 – 10:20 PROF. EUGENY YU. SERGEEV Conference Hall Chief Researcher, Institute of World History RAS (Moscow), President of the IKBFU WWI Historical Association 2 Universitetskaya STR. Challenges and Perspectives of WWI Studies Simultaneous Interpreting 10:20 – 10:40 PROF. VIKTOR V. SERGEEV Head of the Department of History, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad) Debating Points of the WWI History: Historiographical Aspect 10:40 – 11:00 ZORAN STOJKOVIĆ Defense Attaché of the Republic of Serbia in the Russian Federation, colonel Serbia in the World War I 11:00 – 11:20 PROF. MICHAŁ GLOСK Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland) World War I in Polish Historiography 11:20 – 11:40 COFFEE-BREAK PANEL DISCUSSION 11:40 – 12:50 11:40 – 12:00 DR. DENIS YU. KOZLOV Conference Hall Deputy Head of the Research Institute of War History, Military Academy of the IKBFU General Staff of Russian Armed Forces (Moscow) 2 Universitetskaya STR. Baltic Battles in 1914: Plans and Reality Simultaneous Interpreting 12:00 – 12:20 PROF. IGOR N. GREBENKIN Ryazan State University named for S. A. Esenin Officer Corps of War Time: Social Phenomenon 12:20 – 12:40 PROF. IRINA N. NOVIKOVA Dean of the Faculty for International Relations, Saint-Petersburg State University Neutrality or Alliance: Political In-fighting in Sweden related to External Policy during World War I 12:40 – 12:50 PRESENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY Konstantin A. Pakhalyuk, Senior Specialist of the Research Division, RMHS 12:50 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK SESSION 1 14:30 – 18:00 Exhibition Hall MILITARY OPERATIONS AT THE EASTERN FRONT (WESTERN FRONT IN RUSSIA) IN 1914—1915 Kaliningrad Regional Museum of MODERATORS: History and Art PROF. GENNADY V. KRETININ IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY 21 Klinicheskaya STR. ALEXANDER V. KHRAMOY DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS Coffee Break: 16:30 – 16:45 Opening of the Exhibition devoted to WWI Timing: 1. Prof. Yury A. Zubritsky (N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy, Saint-Petersburg). Presentation — 15 min Cooperation between Army and Fleet at the Preparatory Stage of the WWI Report — 10 min 2. Prof. Eugeny F. Podsoblyaev (Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh" D.F. Ustinov, Saint-Petersburg). Development of the Theory of Mass Strategy at the Eve and during WWI 3. Oleg E. Alpeev (Chief Researcher, Military Academy of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces (Moscow). East Prussia in Strategic Plans of Russia and Germany at the end of the XIXth — beginning of ХХth century 4. Dr. Sergey G. Nelipovich (Head of the Achieves Division, Balashikha District Administration, Moscow). Losses of Parties in East Prussia (1914—1915) 5. Prof. Gennady V. Kretinin (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Kaliningrad Regional Studies: Genesis of Knowledge concerning East Prussian Offensive 1914 6. Dr. Oleg V. Chistyakov (Head of the Research Division, Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow). Documents (stored in the Russian State Military Historical Archive) concerning Death of the 13th and 15th Army Corps in East Prussia in August 1914 7. Dr. Olga A. Khoroshilova (Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design). 8th Finnish Rifle Regiment in the Battles in East Prussia, August 1914 — January 1915 8. Oleg N. Puhlyak (Chairman, Member Board, Riga Slavic Historic Society, Latvia). Military Operations in Kurlandia, Spring — Summer 1915 9. Prof. Eugeny N. Rukavishnikov (Baltic Higher Naval Institute named after Admiral FF Ushakov, Kaliningrad). Mine Warfare at the Baltic Sea Coast of Germany at the end of 1914 — beginning of 1915 10. Andrzej Klos (Researcher at the Warmia and Mazury Museum in Olsztyn, Poland). Finding Items of Weaponry and Ammunition on the Place of the Tannenberg Battle: Study and Systematization 11. Alexander V. Khramoy (Deputy Director, National History Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk). The Grodno Fortress in the Defense System of the North-Western Front in 1914 — February 1915 12. Artem Yu. Savinov (Chief Researcher, Central Armed Forces Museum of the Russian Federation, Moscow). Battle of Moon Sound. Newly Discovered Documents and Perspective Approaches 14:30 – 18:00 SESSION 2 Room. 130/4 IKBFU DIPLOMATIC, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC 2 Universitetskaya STR. ASPECTS OF THE WWI HISTORY Coffee Break: MODERATORS 16:30 – 16:45 PROF. VALERY I. GALTSOV Timing: DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES Presentation — 15 min IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Report — 10 min PROF. IRINA N. NOVIKOVA DEAN OF THE FACULTY FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY 1. Prof. Viktor A. Zubachevsky (Omsk State Pedagogical University). Polish Question in WWI Diplomacies of Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary 2. Prof. Rustem A. Tsiunchuk (Kazan Federal University, Kazan). National Question in the Russian Empire at the Eve and during WWI (Polish and German Delegates in the State Duma: “Allies” or “Aliens”) 3. Viktor V. Bezzub (PhD student, Institute of World History, RAS, Moscow). Conceptual Foundations of British Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the WWI 4. Prof. Rafael Muksinov (Member of the World Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots, Vilnius, Lithuania). Humanitarian Law and WWI 5. Dmitry V. Mankevich (Senior lecturer, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). WWI and the Population of Russia (Demographic Aspect) 6. Prof. Yury V. Kostyashov (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Economic Relations between East Prussia and Russia before and after WWI: Changing Cooperation Patterns? 7. Dr. Alexander S. Novikov (Specialist, Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art). Gumbinnen Government Region in the Province of East Prussia of 1914—1915 8. Prof. Tatyana I. Troshina (Associate professor, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk). “It would more pedagogically correct to shoot down…”: Escalation of Violence during the WWI 9. Prof. Sergey N. Bazanov (Senior research fellow, Institute of Russian History, RAS, Moscow). The Phenomenon of Fraternization on the Russian Front 10. Prof. Arūne Arbušauskaitė (Senior research fellow, Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology, Klaipeda University, Lithuania). East Prussian "Civil War Prisoners" in Russia in 1914—1915 and 1918—1919. 11. Prof. Vida Kniūraitė (Associate professor, Lithuanian Educological University, Vilnius, Lithuania). Lithuanian Agriculture under German Occupation 14:30 – 18:00 SESSION 3 Conference Hall ISTORY OF IKBFU H WWI: 2 Universitetskaya STR. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCE STUDIES Simultaneous Interpreting MODERATORS Coffee Break: PROF. LUBOV N. ZHVANKO 16:30 – 16:45 PROFESSOR, O. M. BEKETOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF URBAN ECONOMY IN KHARKIV PROF. VIKTOR V. SERGEEV Timing: DEPUTY HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, IKBFU Presentation — 15 min. Report — 10 min. 1. Prof. Lubov N. Zhvanko (O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine). Refugees during WWI in the Russian Empire: Historiographical Aspect 2. Sebastian Mierzyński (Research fellow, Science Museum of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland). Battle of Tannenberg in Polish Historiography 3. Alexander D. Chumakov (Associate professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad). Reflection of the WWI Events in the Academic "History of Belarus" 4. Dr. Ilya O. Dementev (Associate professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad) “The Cossacks are not leaving.” Modern Western Historiography of the Russian Occupation of East Prussia during WWI 5. Dr. Igor V. Karpeev (Senior specialist, Russian State Military Historical Archive, Moscow). East Prussian Operation in 1915 Reflected by the Russian Media 6. Dr. Leontiy V. Lannik (Associate professor, Saratov State Academy of Law). German Regimental Stories: Tannenberg through the Eyes of its Veterans 7. Dr. Lada V. Mitroshenkova (Deputy director, Museum-Panorama “The Battle of Borodino”, Moscow). Episodes of the Battlefield Life during summer 1916 — spring 1917 in the Memoirs of A.P. Vorontsov-Velyaminov (Lieutenant, Life-Guard of the Combat Engineer Regiment, 1920–1940) 8. Dr. Kirill M. Alexandrov (Senior research fellow, Institute of Philological Studies, Saint-Petersburg State University). Life-Guards 1st His Majesty's Rifle Regiment: Materials related to Biographies of Officers — Veterans of the Great War (following the Collection of O.I. Pantyukhov, Life Guards Colonel, provided by the Hoover Archives in the U.S.) 9. Sergey R. Matveev (PhD student, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow). WWI in the Academic Memory (according to the Journal of Social History, 1994—2013) 10. Andreas Mix (Research fellow, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany). "1914-1918.
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