Sergey Yarov

Sergey Yarov (born 20 July 1959 - died 14 September 2015) was Professor of History at the European University, St Petersburg, and Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, as well as Senior Research Fellow at the St Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His work focused on twentieth-century Russian history and the siege of Leningrad in particular. He was awarded the Likhachev Foundation’s Antsiferov Prize in 2012 and the Dynasty Foundation’s Educator (Prosvetitel’) Prize in 2014.