The functioning joint dissertation council for defending doctoral and candidate dissertations DM 212.009.08 covers the following specialties:
- 07.00.02 – National History
- 24.00.01 – Theory and History of Culture
Main research areas
- Archaeology
- Methodological problems of teaching history
- Protective archaeological research in the territory of Kalmykia and the Lower Volga region
- Problems of world history
- Problems of contemporary history of Mongolia
Over the past 5 years, the department’s team has held a number of conferences, with materials published in collections:
V International Lower Volga Archaeological Conference: Problems of Lower Volga Archaeology. Materials of the V International Conference (Elista, 2016).
International Scientific Conference: Great Eurasian Migrations (Elista, 2016).
Field of scientific interests
The research topics of the faculty are broad – nomadic culture and its prospects in the 21st century, the Stone Age of the North Caspian region, ethnic history of tribes and peoples of the northwestern Caspian region in the medieval period, international relations.
Scientific connections
- Astrakhan State University
- Volgograd State University
- Kabardino-Balkarian State University
- Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov
- North Caucasus Federal University
- Southern Federal University
- Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklukho-Maklai, RAS
- Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Scientific Center, RAS
- Kalmyk Institute of Humanities, RAS
- Institute of Archaeology named after A.H. Khalikov, Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
- Atyrau State University named after Kh. Dosmukhamedov (Kazakhstan)
- West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov (Kazakhstan)
- Institute of History, Mongolian Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Archaeology named after A.H. Margulan (Kazakhstan)