A. S. ZAPESOTSKY

Rector of St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Cultural Sciences, Professor, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg Intelligentsia Congress. Author of about 4 thousand research papers and scientific-journalistic works, textbooks on issues of culture, education, mass media, trade unions, social and youth policy, international relations. Member of the editorial boards of the journals “Philosophical Thought”, “Issues of Cultural Studies”, “Search: Politics. Social Studies. Arts. Sociology. Culture”, etc. Honorary Doctor of Universities in the USA, Ireland, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. Academician of the Academy of Sciences and Arts (Paris), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg). Awarded the Orders of Friendship, Honour, and Aleksandr Nevsky. Recipient of the K. D. Ushinsky Medal, the RAE Gold Medal, and others. Awarded a number of gratitudes of the President of the Russian Federation. Laureate of the prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation (2007) and the Government of St. Petersburg.