Vilen Nikolaevich Ivanov (b. July 6, 1934 in Poltava

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, Ukraine

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) – a Russian sociologist, Ph. D., Professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

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 (RAS); since October, 2005 on he has been a RAS adviser; member of the Bureau for Social Sciences under the RAS; Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences; Editor-in-Chief of the Nauka. Kultura. Obshchestvo Journal; member of the Presidium of Moscow Sociological Association; honorary member of the Russian Association of Sociologists; full member of the Byelorussian Academy of Social Sciences; Vice-President of the International Academy of Russia-Belarus Union; member of the Union of Russian Writers; full member of the Academy of Literature (since 2006).
V. Ivanov is the author of more than 400 scientific publications (monographs, manuals, brochures) and of 11 collections of poems.

• He graduated from the Lenin Political-Military Academy with honours.
• From 1983 to September 1988 V. Ivanov was Director of the Institute of Sociological Research under the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
• From 1991 to 2005 he was the first Deputy Director of the Institute of Socio-Political Research
  Institute of Socio-Political Research
  The Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences – is a leading Russian academic research center. It is engaged in a fundamental and applied research of social and socio-political processes....
  
   of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPR RAS)
• At present time he is Deputy Head of the Sociology Department for National Security and Federalism under the ISPR RAS.

Awards and Prizes

• Order of Friendship
  Order of Friendship
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   (1986);
• Medal for Serving the Motherland, 2nd degree
• The Order “Renascence of Russia, 21st century”;
• Gold Medal for the Assembly of Russian Peoples.

External links

• The Institute of Socio-Political Research (in Russian)
• Official site of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sources

• V.N. Ivanov’s biography (in Russian)