On 14-16 April, 2016, National Research Tomsk State University, the Department of History conducted XII International academic and applied research conference for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and early career researchers, titled ‘Topical issues of history, international relations and document science’.

On April 21-27, 2016, the Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research organized a series of lectures and seminars themed ‘Introduction to social anthropology’ which were given by international professor of Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg) Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov.

Some changes have been made to the terms of participation in the summer school ‘Science as a form of life: watching heterogeneous communities in the ‘field’’ which is to be held in Tomsk and at the Stationary Biological Laboratory Kaybasovo in Tomsk region, on 10-20 July, 2016.

On 20-22 April, 2016, the XVII International West-Siberian Archeology and Ethnography Conference was held at Tomsk State University. Within the framework of the conference a seminar, entitled ‘East and West: interaction of peoples in the context of dialogue of cultures’, took place.

On April 4th, following a year-long evaluation of the journal’s application, we have received a positive response from the Scopus citation database. According to the Content Selection Advisory Board (CSAB), it has been recommended that the Siberian Historical Research journal be accepted for inclusion in Scopus!