Petr K. Dashkovskiy

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Petr K. Dashkovskiy is Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Regional Studies of Russia, National and State-Confessional Relations, Head of the Laboratory of Ethnocultural and Religious Studies of the Institute of Humanities of Altai State University in Russia

 

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Petr K. Dashkovsky is the author of more than 550 academic and educational works, including 21 monographs, more than 30 educational publications on the ethnocultural and ethno-confessional history of Siberia and Asia. The articles have been published in Russian, English, Turkmen, Chinese, and Mongolian in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The Hirsch index according to RSCI is 26. The Scopus Hirsch Index is 6, and the Web of Science Hirsch Index is 5.

  • Member of the Dissertation Council D 24.2.269.01 on historical sciences.
  • Scientific expert of the Russian National Science Foundation; Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS. He was the head and main executor of more than 70 grants and agreements received from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Foundation of the President of the Russian Federation, etc.
  • Head of Russia's leading scientific school in the field of ethnoreligious studies of Central Asia, supported by the Foundation of the President of the Russian Federation.
  • Member of the editorial Board of the journals: "Study of Religion" (Russia), "Proceedings of the Altai State University. Historical Sciences and Archeology Series" (Russia), "The World of the Greater Altai" (Kazakhstan), "Bulletin of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Series: Historical Sciences. Philosophy. Religious Studies" (Kazakhstan), "Socio Time" (Russia), etc.
  • Member of various expert councils: National Center for State Scientific and Technological Expertise of Kazakhstan, Republican Research Scientific Consulting Center for Expertise. Expert Council of Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs. Chairman of Expert Council on State Religious Studies Examination Department of Ministry of Justice of Altai Region. Winner of Altai Territory Science and Technology Prize (2006, 2015, 2019,2023), National Professor of Year Award (2022).

The winner of the All-Russian competition "Golden Names of Higher Education" in the nomination "For Contribution to Science and Higher Education", 2025, and the winner of the "Intellectual Capital of Altai" competition conducted by the Government of Altai Territory in the category "Scientist of the Year", 2017 and 2021.

P.K. Dashkovsky is one of the developers of the concept for the development of religious landscapes in Western Siberia, Siberia and adjacent regions in Central Asia from late antiquity to present day. His research interests include studying the religious landscape in Western Siberian regions and bordering areas of Mongolia and Kazakhstan as well as history of state-confessional relations in Russia, and he has substantiated that the concept of a religious landscape is an historically changing system of relationships between society and religious organizations within a specific geographical area in relation to ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, and political processes.

in Siberia and Central Asia from late antiquity to ethnographic modernity. Much attention is paid to studying socio-political organization, the institutionalization of power, elite functioning, and the development of religious systems among various peoples in the Central Asian region. Over the years, he has conducted ethnoarchaeological and ethno-confessional research in Altai, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, resulting in a concept of ethnoculturally and ethnosociologically developing Western Altai peoples from the III millennium BC to the early II millennium AD.