Organizations Attached to the Department of Humanitarian Sciences and Arts

Founded 1931

Director: Acad. Pyotr G. NIKITENKO, tel.: +375 (17) 284-24-43
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Econ.Sc. Tatiana N. MIRONOVA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-19-85

Field of Activities: Fundamental research in the spheres of theoretical economics, history of economics, macro- and microeconomics, demography, human capital, industrial policy, agricultural economics, regional economics, international economic relations, scientific innovative development, economic aspects of ecological problems, modeling of economic processes. Development of a social-oriented model of the national economy and a national strategy for sustainable innovative economic development of the Republic of Belarus

Subdivisions: centers of agrarian economics; theoretical economics; world economy and international economic relation research; scientific and innovative development; macroeconomic regulation and problems of efficiency; microeconomic research, organizing and management

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 08.00.01 Theoretical economics; 08.00.05 Economics and regulation of the national economy; 08.00.14 International economy

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 08.00.01 Theoretical economics; 08.00.05 Economics and regulation of the national economy; 08.00.14 International economy

Production and Services: applied research in branches of the national economy, working out and examination of scientific and investment projects

Founded 2005

Director: Cand.Econ.Sc. Valery I. BELSKY, tel.: +375 (17) 212-04-11

Field of Activities: Organization and implementation of the research on a broad range of the agrarian economic problems, execution of many-sided scientific themes and co-ordination of the scientific developments of all agrarian-economic scientific structures of the country

Subdivisions: departments of food security; organizing-and-production structures; research-and-organizing department; the economic regulation department; department of informatization

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 08.00.05 Economics and regulation of the national economy

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 08.00.05 Economics and regulation of the national economy

Founded 1929

Director: Dr.Hist.Sc. Aleksandr A. KOVALENIA, tel.: +375 (17) 284-18-70
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Hist.Sc. Marat G. ZHILINSKI, tel.: +375 (17) 284-18-69

Field of Activities: Fundamental and applied research in domestic history and archeology. Development of recommendations on practical application of the results of the Institute's staff research projects. Expert assessment of important research programmes, innovative projects, and corresponding draft laws. Generalization and extension of international historical and archeological research and promotion of the practical application of scientific achievements, as well as archeological dig to preserve and to protect the country's historical heritage

Subdivisions: centers for history of pre-industrial society; history of industrial society; history of post-industrial society; divisions of archeology of primitive society; medieval archeology; archeological heritage preservation and research, Belarusian medieval history and early modern history, Belarusian statehood; social, economical and political history of Belarus; military history and international relations; world history, intergovernmental and international relations; social and economical history, science and culture; contemporary history of the Republic of Belarus; publishing and information services; sections of bronze and iron epoch; scientific and archeological reserves; source studies and archeography; historiography and historical research methods

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 07.00.02 Domestic history; 07.00.06 Archaeology

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 07.00.02 Domestic history

Production and Services: scientific research, archeological dig, publishing

Founded 1931

Director: Dr.Philos.Sc. Vasily N. NOVIKOV, tel.: +375 (17) 284-07-18
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Philos.Sc. Irina D. KARPENKO (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-29-25

Field of Activities: Fundamental research in the field of theory and methodology of natural scientific and socio-humanitarian cognition, philosophical anthropology, social ecology, ethics and aesthetics. Elaboration of innovative strategies of social, spiritual, cultural and scientific progress. Study of the actual problems of the contemporary socio-political and cultural development. Study and summarizing of the achievements of the world and national philosophical thought with the aim of their practical application

Subdivisions: centers of philosophical and methodological investigations; socio-philosophical investigations; historical and philosophical investigations; divisions of logics, methodology and cognition and interdisciplinary studies; philosophy of science, technology and information processes; philosophical problems of social ecology; philosophical problems of national and international relations; philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture; philosophical and socio-political thought of Belarus; philosophy of religion, ethics and aesthetics; foreign philosophy

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 09.00.01 Ontology and epistemology; 09.00.08 Philosophy of science and technology; 09.00.11 Social philosophy; 09.00.13 Science of religion, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture; 09.00.03 History of philosophy; 09.00.05 Ethics

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 09.00.01 Ontology and epistemology; 09.00.08 Philosophy of science and technology; 09.00.11 Social philosophy; 09.00.13 Science of religion, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture; 09.00.03 History of philosophy; 09.00.05 Ethics

Production and Services: collective and individual monographs, articles, manuals and teaching aids; preparation of analytical and expert materials for the governing bodies; elaboration of educational courses

Founded 1990

Director: Dr.Soc.Sc. Prof. Georgiy M. EVEL'KIN, tel.: +375 (17) 284-18-65
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Soc.Sc. Oksana F. SHELEST (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-18-65

Field of Activities: Fundamental and applied sociological studies. Methodological substantiation elaboration of social changing and mechanisms research, scenario development and model design of stable innovation evolution and civil society formation. Social mechanism analysis and strategies of the basic social population groups economic behavior. Studies of political strategy roles and managerial and organizational mechanisms for civic society formation providing in Belarus. Socio-cultural, informational and value-identification mechanisms of Belarusian nation formation

Subdivisions: centers of executive researches and social forecasting; migration monitoring of scientific and scientific and pedagogical staff; divisio of culture and communication sociology; politics, economics and law sociology

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 22.00.03 Economic sociology and demography; 22.00.04 Social structure, social institutes and processes; 22.00.06 Sociology of culture and spiritual life; 19.00.05 Social psychology

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 22.00.03 Economic sociology and demography; 22.00.04 Social structure, social institutes and processes; 22.00.06 Sociology of culture and spiritual life

Production and Services: the complex set of application sociological studies (electoral, marketing, etc.); carring out an analysis of television viewing specificity in the country using people-meters

Founded 1957

Director: Corr. Mem. Aliaksandr I. LAKOTKA, tel.: +375 (17) 284-29-21
Scientific Secretary: Dr.Hist.Sc. Aliaksandr V. HURKO, tel.: +375 (17) 284-29-16

Field of Activities: Studies of the ethnocultural processes in Belarus, interethnic ties of the Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians and other ethnic groups, their material and spiritual culture, issues connected with history and theory of the Belarusian art, anthropology

Subdivisions: departments of architecture; ancient Belarusian culture; fine, decorative and applied arts; folklore; Slavonic studies; dramatic art; music; cinematographic art; ethnology; anthropology and ecology

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 03.00.14 Anthropology; 07.00.07 Ethnography, ethnology and anthropology; 10.01.09 Folklore studies; 17.00.01 Dramatic art; 17.00.02 Musical arts; 17.00.03 Cinematographic, television and other screen arts; 17.00.04 Architecture, fine, decorative and applied arts; 17.00.09 History and theory of art

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 07.00.07 Ethnography, ethnology and anthropology; 10.01.09 Folklore studies; 17.00.01 Dramatic art; 17.00.04 Architecture, fine, decorative and applied arts; 17.00.09 History and theory of art

Production and Services: Fundamental and applied research in the fields of art criticism, ethnology, folklore and anthropology; working out recommendations on practical use of research results. Examination of the major scientific and economic programmes, innovation projects; and laws in draft within the framework of Institute's activities. Postgraduate studies and postdoctoral training, preparing the highly qualified scientists. Tours in the Museum of Ancient Belarusian Culture affiliated to the Institute, which aims at promoting national arts and history. Books in the fields of fine, decorative and applied arts, architecture, dramatic, musical and cinematographic arts, folklore, ethnology and anthropology

Founded 1929

Director: Dr.Phil.Sc. Aliaksandr A. LUKASHANETS, tel.: +375 (17) 284-15-94
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Phil.Sc. Ihar L. KAPYLOU, tel.: +375 (17) 284-27-18

Field of Activities: Studies of the Belarusian language system on different stages of its development. Research in sociolinguistics, confrontative and comparative-typological studies. Compilation of the Belarusian language dictionaries including Belarusian/other Slavic languages and the other Slavic languages/Belarusian dictionaries

Subdivisions: divisions of the Belarusian language history; dialectology and geolinguistics; lexicology and lexicography; contemporary Belarusian language; Slavic and theoretical linguistics; Belarusian-Russian relations

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 10.02.01 Belarusian language; 10.02.02 Russian language; 10.02.03 Slavic languages

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 10.02.01 Belarusian language

Production and Services: dictionaries and reference books of various types, linguistic expert examinations

Founded 1931

Director: Dr.Phil.Sc. Valery A. MAKSIMOVICH, tel.: +375 (17) 284-07-76
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Phil.Sc. Nikolay V. MIKULICH, tel.: +375 (17) 284-27-20

Field of Activities: Discovery and analysis of the general tendencies and principles of historical and modern literary process. Exploration of literary history and literary interrelations in the Slavic world and beyond. Research of the literary legacy of Belarus (including academic editions of Belarusian literary classics, literary masterworks)

Subdivisions: divisions of modern Belarusian literature; Belarusian literature of the 20th century; history of ancient and new Belarusian literature; literary theory; literary interrelations; textology and editions

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 10.01.01 Belarusian literature; 10.01.08 Literary theory. Textology

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 10.01.01 Belarusian literature

Production and Services: professional literature, text books and readers, editions of Belarusian literary classics, literary masterworks