The Institute of Victors (From the History and in Honour of the Anniversary of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
This article is a short study of the history of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main focus is both on the circumstances which contributed to its establishment within the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1946 and 1947 and on the scientific activity of the representatives of the first generation of members of the Institute who were the veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The article also throws light upon the current activity of the Institute of Slavic Studies.