Zulyar Yuriy Anatolievich

Doctor of Sciences (History), Associate Professor,  Head of the Department of Political Science, History and Area Studies

Zulyar Yuriy Anatolievich

Doctor of Sciences (History), Associate Professor,  Head of the Department of Political Science, History and Area Studies

Contacts: тел.: +7 (3952) 24-38-75
E-mail: uazulyar@yandex.ru
Address: room 303, 2, Chkalova st., Irkutsk, 664003

Office hours: Thursday from 9.00 till 15.00.

Yuriy A. Zulyar studied at the History Faculty of Irkutsk State University and in 1979 got the Diploma in History.

In 2003 he successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled “The History of the Use of Natural Resources for Agriculture in the Baikal Territory during the Soviet Period”


Career:

1979 – Lecturer at the Department of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at Irkutsk State University.

1985 – Senior Lecturer

1988 – Associate Professor

2004 – Professor at the Department of Russian History and Political Science at Irkutsk State University.

2006-present – Head of the Department of Russian History and Political Science.

2009-present – Head of the the Department of Political Science.

2010-present – Dean of the Faculty of History of Irkutsk State University.


Membership in research institutions and expert panels:

1989 – He promoted and became a member of the editorial board of one of the first independent historical and political almanac “Provintsiya

2005 – a member of the Dissertation Committee on History at Irkutsk State University

2007 – an editor-in-chief of the journal «The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University». Series «Political Science and Religion Studies», which he initiated and guided, and which is included in the List of Russian peer-reviewed journals.

2011 – an deputy editor-in-chief of the journal «The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University». Series «History»

Member of the editorial board of a number of academic journals: “Current Studies of Social Issues”, “the Bulletin of the Buryat Research Center of the Siberian Brunch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, “The Bulletin of Trans-Baikal State University”

2011 – Editor-in-Chief and the author of the publishing project “Persons of the East-Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society” Bibliography

2008 – a member of the editorial board of the Series “Outstanding Geographers of Siberia” of the Siberian Brunch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

An editor of the 1-st volume of “Historical Geography” of the 6-volume academy publication “Geography of Siberia in the Early XXI Century” and multi-authored monograph “Irkutsk Krai. Four Centuries: the History of Irkutsk Governorate (Region) in XVII-XXI”.

2017 – a member of the editorial board of “Local Historian of the Angara Region” journal.

A science editor and member of editorial boards of more than 150 publications and collections of documents, study guides, monographs, journals..

A reviewer of 20 scientific, research and methodological, and scientific-journalistic publications.

A convener of the All-Russian Political Conference “Baikal Siberia Social and Administrative Consolidation Issues – 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016”.

2007-present – an initiator and moderator of the annual “Baikal International Social and Humanitarian Scientific Conference”.

2008-2010 – a chairperson of the Academic Council of the University-wide Departments.

2009-present – a member of the Academic Council of Irkutsk State University.

2010-present – a chairperson of the Academic Council of The History Faculty.

2008-present – Head of Irkutsk Regional Department of the Russian Association of Political Scientists.

2013-present - Head of Irkutsk Regional Department of the Russian Society of Political Scientists.

Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Irkutsk Regional Department of the Russian Geographical Society.

A member of the coordinating research council “History of Penitentiary Policy of the Russian Government and Siberia XVIII - XXI“ at ISU.

A member of the Academic Council of the Irkutsk Department of “Interregional Research in Social Sciences” at ISU.

2013-present – an expert at the Russian Geographical Society.

2014-present – an expert at the Internet project “National Expert” – a federal platform consolidating views of federal and regional experts; and the Internet portal “Regional Discussion”.

2015-present – an expert at National Research University “Higher School of Economics” and eLIBRARY.RU.

2013-2015 – a chairperson of the commission on mass communications development and media freedom at the Public Chamber of the Irkutsk Region.

A lecturer of: History of the Soviet Union Communist Party, Russian History, Political Science, Basics of Political Theory, Comparative Political Science, Political Marketing, Social and Political Ecology, Advertising, Mass Communications in Advertising, Political Advertising, Media Economics and Management.

Research interests: agrarian history of Siberia, social ecology, theory and practice of advertising, media management. Yuriy A. Zulyar is an expert in Russian History, Political Science and Historical Geography and Communication Science.

A member and arranger of 163 international, all-Union, all-Russian, republican, regional, interuniversity, university scientific conferences and round-tables.

The author and coauthor of 10 monographs, 12 reference works, 260 research and research-journalistic articles, 33 college textbooks, study guides, and guidelines for students and lecturers, and 194 media materials and op-ed articles.

He was a leader and participant of a number of research projects. Such projects as “History of Post-Soviet Russian Governors” (2001-2014), “Modern History of the Irkutsk Region” (2011-2014), “Baikal International Social and Humanitarian Scientific Conference” (2007-2017), “Persons of the East-Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society”: Bibliography” (2011-2017), “Outstanding Geographers of Siberia” (2008-2017), “Agrarian History of the Irkutsk Region” (1982 - 2017) are only a few of them.

He won the Irkutsk Region Governor’s prize in culture and art in 2014.