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O L (Ministry of Education and Science Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science of Russia) - a federal executive body of Russia that operated in 2004-2018 (and earlier in 1996-1999) and carried out the functions of developing public policy and legal regulation in the field of education, scientific, scientific-technical and innovative activities, development of federal centers of science and high technologies, state scientific centers and science cities, intellectual property, as well as in the field of youth policy, education, guardianship and trusteeship, social support And
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students and pupils of educational institutions.
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It ceased to exist due to the division into two departments: the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
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Subtitles Story The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Education and Science of Russia) was formed in 2004 and was the legal successor of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, transformed in 1999 from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (1996−1999), which was formed from two departments: until 1996, primary and secondary (including secondary specialized and vocational) education was managed by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (1991−1996), and higher and postgraduate education from the Ministry of Education) from the Ministry of Science and Technical Policy of the RSFSR, which existed for only two weeks in November 1991, which united the departments of the USSR and the RSFSR: the RSFSR State Committee for Science and Higher Education, the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology. Ministry of Education of the RSFSR (later Russian Federation), created in 1988 (with the merger of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR and State Committee RSFSR for vocational and technical education), with the collapse of the USSR in 1991, became the successor to:
- USSR State Committee for Public Education (−), formed as a result of the merger of three ministries of the USSR:
- Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the USSR (Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR)
- Ministry of Vocational and Technical Education of the USSR.
The Ministry was formed during the creation of the first Fradkov government by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 314 of March 9, 2004. It received the functions of adopting regulations of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, abolished by the same decree, as well as the functions of adopting regulations of the abolished Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (in the field of science) and the reorganized Russian Trademark Agency.
At the same time, the functions of law enforcement, management and control in the fields of education, science and intellectual property were transferred to the jurisdiction of the newly created four federal services and agencies controlled by the ministry - the Federal Agency for Education, the Federal Agency for Science, the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks and the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Education and sciences.
On the same day, Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko, who had been acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation since November 2003, was appointed minister.
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 158 of April 6, 2004 established the number of the central apparatus of the ministry - 380 people - and the addresses of its location: Tverskaya Street, house No. 11/4; Bryusov lane, house number 21, buildings 1 and 2; Chistoprudny Boulevard, building No. 6 (the Federal Agency for Education was located in the building of the former Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on Lyusinovskaya Street). It was also established that the central apparatus has 6 departments in the main areas of activity, and the minister has two deputies.
On May 20, 2004, the Federal Agency for Science, subordinate to the ministry, was renamed.
On August 13, 2005, an additional position of Secretary of State - Deputy Minister was established.
On August 18, 2008, the number of deputy ministers was increased to five, the number of central staff was increased to 430 people, and the number of departments was increased to seven.
On May 15, 2010, the number of deputy ministers was increased to seven, the number of central staff to 850 people, and the number of departments to eighteen.
Under the auspices of the Ministry and the Federal Agency for Education, the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren is held in 21 subjects (2007 data). The Ministry of Education and Science of Russia coordinates the implementation of the Priority National Project “Education”.
According to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated March 4, 2010 (came into force on March 10), the Federal Agency for Education (Rosobrazovanie) and the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation (Rosnauka) were abolished with the transfer of their functions directly to the Ministry of Education and Science.
According to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 24, 2011, the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks was renamed the Federal Service for Intellectual Property and removed from the subordination of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, along with the expansion of the range of issues regulated by it.
In the second half of the 2010s, the idea of dividing the Ministry of Education and Science into two departments was periodically voiced: one responsible for education, the other for science.
On May 15, 2018, the Ministry of Education and Science was divided into two separate ministries - the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Rosobrnadzor and Rosmolodezh came under the control of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Competence of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science regulates in the following areas:
- scientific, scientific and technical activities and innovative activities in the scientific and technical field;
- development of federal centers of science and high technologies;
- state scientific centers and science cities;
- education, guardianship and trusteeship of minor citizens;
- social support and social protection of students and pupils of educational institutions;
- unique scientific stands and installations;
- national research computer network of a new generation and information support for scientific, scientific, technical and innovative activities.
Management
Ministers
Deputy Ministers
- Fridlyanov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (April 5, 2004 - May 15, 2010)
- Svinarenko, Andrey Gennadievich (April 8, 2004 - March 22, 2007)
- Livanov, Dmitry Viktorovich (November 19, 2005 - March 27, 2007) - Secretary of State
- Sentyurin, Yuri Petrovich (April 27, 2007 - November 11, 2010; until June 16, 2010 - Secretary of State)
- Kalina, Isaac Iosifovich (September 11, 2007 - November 9, 2010)
- Miklushevsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich (September 1, 2008 - October 19, 2010)
- Khlunov, Alexander Vitalievich (September 1, 2008 - February 8, 2010)
- Ponomarev, Alexey Konstantinovich (June 9, 2010 - April 17, 2012)
- Mazurenko, Sergey Nikolaevich (March 25, 2010 - June 7, 2012)
- Bilenkina, Inna Petrovna (June 15, 2010 - August 1, 2012)
- Lobanov, Ivan Vasilievich (June 16, 2010 - January 28, 2011) - State Secretary
- Kambolov, Marat Arkadevich (November 12, 2010 - August 2, 2014)
- Dulinov, Maxim Viktorovich (November 17, 2010 - June 9, 2012)
- Remorenko, Igor Mikhailovich (February 3, 2011 - July 20, 2013; until June 5, 2012 - Secretary of State)
- Klimov, Alexander Alekseevich (June 14, 2012 - September 9, 2016)
- Fedyukin, Igor Igorevich (June 14, 2012 - June 6, 2013)
- Povalko, Alexander Borisovich (June 18, 2012 - December 15, 2016)
- Tretyak, Natalya Vladimirovna (June 18, 2012 - December 8, 2016; until August 2, 2013 - Secretary of State, after - First Deputy)
- Tolstikova, Ekaterina Andreevna (September 11, 2014 - November 12, 2016)
- Pereverzeva, Valentina Viktorovna (from March 22, 2017) - first deputy
- Kaganov, Veniamin Shaevich (from June 25, 2013)
- Ogorodova, Lyudmila Mikhailovna (from August 26, 2013)
- Kuznetsova, Irina Vladimirovna (from December 1, 2016)
- Trubnikov, Grigory Vladimirovich (since January 25, 2017)
- Zenkovich, Pavel Stanislavovich (from February 6, 2017) - Secretary of State
- Sinyugina, Tatyana Yurievna (from March 25, 2017)
Structure of the central office
Departmental awards (description)
Medal of L. S. Vygotsky
Medal of L. S. Vygotsky- departmental medal of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, established by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia No. 546 dated May 12, 2016 (clarifications made by order No. 1223 dated September 26, 2016). The establishment of the medal was associated with the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of L. S. Vygotsky, who made a significant contribution to the development of sciences about human development in nature, culture and society.
Award procedure
The L. S. Vygotsky Medal is awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation from among teaching workers and figures in the field psychological sciences who have an academic degree of candidate or doctor of sciences and are carrying out scientific or educational activities(hereinafter referred to as employees) who made a significant contribution:
in the development of the cultural-historical approach in psychology; in improving methods of psychological and pedagogical support citizens; in scientific and methodological provision of psychological support. The medal is awarded to employees who have worked in the field of psychological sciences for at least 20 years, including at least 5 years in the educational or scientific organization nominated for the award.
Description of the award badge
The medal of L. S. Vygotsky has the shape of a regular circle with a diameter of 27 mm with a convex side on both sides 0.5 mm high and 1 mm wide; it is made of nickel silver alloy with subsequent oxidation.
On the front side of the medal is a direct relief-graphic image of a portrait of L. S. Vygotsky. Along the circumference of the medal on the right side there is a relief inscription in the letters “LEV SEMENOVITCH VYGOTSKY” and the years of his life are indicated 1896-1934.
On the reverse side there is a circular inscription “Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation”, in the center in raised capital letters in 4 lines there is an inscription “FOR MERIT IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES”, from bottom to top along the circumference to the right and left - one laurel branch.
Using an eyelet and a ring, the medal is connected to a quadrangular block measuring 25 mm by 15 mm, covered with a white silk moiré ribbon 20 mm wide. In the middle of the tape are two vertical transverse blue stripes 3 mm wide, separated by a white stripe 1 mm wide. The side edges of the tape are bordered by a blue stripe 1 mm wide. At the bottom of the block there is a relief image of laurel branches. The reverse side of the block is metal plate with pin fastening.
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
The award was established on January 13, 1999 by order of the Ministry of General and vocational education Russia No. 44 dated January 13, 1999. In 2004, in connection with the renaming of the ministry, by order of the Ministry of Education and Science No. 84 dated October 6, 2004, the regulation was revised and published under the name “Regulations on insignia in the field of education and science.” Transformed and ceased to exist in its previous form on September 26, 2016 in accordance with Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia No. 1223 dated September 26, 2016.
Award procedure
Employees of educational institutions (organizations) of higher and additional professional education, education management bodies, employees of educational institutions (organizations) of other ministries and departments, as well as employees of enterprises, organizations, ministries and departments are awarded for:
- significant successes in organizing and improving the educational process in the light of modern achievements of science, technology and culture, the implementation of educational programs of higher and postgraduate professional education, as well as programs of relevant additional education and retraining of specialists, ensuring the unity of training and education, the formation of intellectual, cultural and moral development personalities;
- implementation in educational process forms and methods of organizing and conducting classes, monitoring knowledge and new technologies that ensure the development of student independence and individualization of their learning;
- progress in practical training students, graduate students and listeners, management of research and design activities of students;
- advances in research on current problems fundamental, search, applied sciences, including issues of education;
- achievements in regional, federal, international educational and scientific-technical programs and projects, implementation of regional interuniversity programs in priority areas of science, technology and culture;
- progress in development educational literature and production teaching aids and equipment;
- merits in the preparation and improvement of pedagogical and scientific qualifications of scientific and pedagogical personnel, retraining of specialists in the system of higher and postgraduate professional and relevant additional education;
- successes in organizing financial and economic activities, development and strengthening of the material, technical and experimental production base of educational institutions (organizations);
- constant and active assistance to educational institutions (organizations) in the training of highly qualified specialists and the development of the material and technical base of educational institutions (organizations).
Awarded to employees who have worked in the relevant vocational education system for at least 15 years.
The award is made by order of the Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Russian Federation.
Presentation badge“Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation” and the corresponding certificate for it are issued in a solemn atmosphere at the place of work of the awarded person.
Privileges of the awarded
Honorary workers of higher professional education of the Russian Federation working in educational institutions, subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, a monthly incentive bonus of up to 20 percent inclusive of the official salary may be established at the expense of the educational institution.
Description of the award badge
The award badge is a medal attached with a lug and ring with a rectangular block measuring 25 mm by 15 mm and covered with a white silk moiré ribbon. The side edges of the tape are bordered by a blue transverse strip 3 mm wide at a distance of 1 mm from the edges, and in the middle there are two more transverse strips 3 mm wide. At the bottom of the block there is a relief image of laurel branches. On the front side of the medal there is the inscription “Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education”, bordered on the right side by an olive branch.
The award badge is worn on right side breasts under state awards of the Russian Federation.
See also . Retrieved March 18, 2018.
— On behalf of the country’s President Vladimir Putin, a unified educational space is being formed. Could you tell us more about what this idea is?
— Thank you very much for such an important question. Education has always, in all periods of our history, worried both the leadership and the citizens, because there is not a single person who is not associated with education. Of course, the issue of a single educational space is directly related - and has always been related - to a very important problem: national security. The question facing the country here is who we are preparing, who we are teaching, who we are educating, to whom we can hand over the country tomorrow. That is, today a student, today a child, and tomorrow a citizen on whose shoulders responsibility for the country will fall.
The concept of a unified educational space includes several directions. But the most important thing is what we put into our training, what we put into our upbringing. Because education is training and upbringing, this is a dualism that is difficult to break, no matter what anyone says. At the most basic level, what is this initiative for? To know for sure that a child, having left one school and moved to another, sat down at his desk, opened a textbook, say, mathematics, and began from the place where he finished reading in the previous school.
At the same time, a single educational space requires several steps. The first step, of course, is creating the content—what and how we teach. There were standards that we all knew about and lived by that were good for their time. But each time requires certain adjustments. When we talk about educational content, we must know the core of what we will teach.
Olga Yurievna Vasilyeva- Russian statesman, doctor historical sciences(1998), professor (2005), Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2016−2018), Minister of Education of the Russian Federation (since May 18, 2018). Olga Vasilyeva is the first woman in history to be the Minister of Education. Vasilyeva is the head of the department of state-confessional relations at the Institute of State Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (since 2002), honorary professor at the Moscow State University for the Humanities and Economics.
early years and education of Olga Vasilyeva
Olga Vasilyeva was born on January 13, 1960 in the city of Bugulma (Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR).
Father of the Minister of Education - Yuri Vasiliev- a mathematician, held a high position and was constantly under close public attention. But this did not prevent him from remaining Orthodox and performing the baptism ceremony on his daughters in Georgievsk, located in the Stavropol region, according to Olga Vasilyeva’s biography on Wikipedia.
Almost nothing is known about the mother of the future Minister of Education; Olga Vasilyeva often says in interviews that everything she knows now was instilled in her by her beloved father.
Vasilyeva has a younger sister.
Olga's parents moved to Tatarstan due to distribution after graduating from higher education educational institution.
Already at the age of three, Olya learned to read and write. Naturally, everyone considered her a child prodigy. And although the girl was a sickly child and suffered from frequent sore throats, she graduated from school at the age of 14. Olga Vasilyeva loved not only to study, but also to sing and dance.
As a result, after graduating from school, Vasilyeva was able to receive three higher educations almost simultaneously.
Olga Vasilyeva graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Culture, the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, and the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nevertheless, Vasilyeva connected her life with pedagogy.
In 1990, at the Institute of History of the USSR, Olga Vasilyeva defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic “The Soviet state and the patriotic activities of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic War.” Patriotic War"(specialty - "history of the USSR").
In 1998, Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences on the topic “The Russian Orthodox Church in the politics of the Soviet state in 1943-1948.”
Labor activity and career of Olga Vasilyeva
Olga Vasilyeva began her work biography by working in a regular school. Olga Yurievna for a long time worked as a singing and history teacher in Moscow.
In the early nineties, Vasilyeva worked at the Center for the History of Religion and Church at the Academy of Sciences. Soon she headed this center. Since 2002, Olga Vasilyeva has been the head of the department in Russian Academy civil service under the President of the Russian Federation, later taught at a theological seminary.
Vasilyeva’s career as a politician began back in 2012, when Olga Yuryevna took the post of first deputy director of the department of culture of the government of the Russian Federation, and then deputy head of the department for public projects of the department of culture.
Then Olga Vasilyeva became a state adviser. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin dated September 16, 2014, Vasilyeva was awarded the class rank of “Actual State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 2nd class.”
Olga Vasilyeva’s biography on Wikipedia states that in 2014, Olga Vasilyeva was one of the initiators of the discussion about conservatism on the platform of the All-Russian Popular Front. Olga Vasilyeva was a member of the council for the preparation of programs for the course “National History” under the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation and the working group of the Presidential Commission for the Affairs of Disabled People - on issues of creating conditions for the participation of people with disabilities in the cultural life of society . Olga Vasilyeva was a member of the Council for Coverage of Religious Topics in Electronic Media under the Ministry of Press, Television and Radio Broadcasting and Media mass communications.
Olga Vasilyeva as minister
On August 19, 2016, at a working meeting in Crimea, the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed to the Russian President Vladimir Putin for changing Dmitry Livanov appoint as head of the Ministry of Education and Science “a woman - Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva, who has a good track record.”
Since August 2016, Olga Vasilyeva took the post of Minister of Education.
On May 18, 2018, Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva joined the new Government of the Russian Federation. The structure of government has undergone changes. The Ministry of Education was divided into two departments: the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Vasilyeva was appointed Minister of Education, while Minister of Science was appointed Mikhail Kotyukov. Now Vasilyeva’s department is responsible for general school and special education.
Views of Olga Vasilyeva
Olga Vasilyeva is convinced that Russians should study in Russia. Your first higher education should be obtained in Russia; you should go abroad to study only if necessary. According to her, Russian education is one of the most powerful in the world, and therefore “the basics, the first higher education,” should be obtained in Russia, and “only then improved abroad.”
Olga Vasilyeva stated the need to return to a single font in the CIS.
“Now we must return to a single font in the CIS - this is the Cyrillic font, because, as surveys show, our population, the neighboring countries, still speaks of the attachment and need for the Cyrillic font,” Vasilyeva said at the III Livadia Forum.
She emphasized that over the past twenty years, Russia’s position on the issue of distributing the Cyrillic font has weakened a little, although it needs to be “kept very clearly”
After the collapse of the USSR, a transition from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet was carried out in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan.
Criticism and scandals with Olga Vasilyeva
Critics of Olga Vasilyeva believe that she failed to propose a clear program of reforms in the educational sector of the Russian Federation. New project educational standards(Federal State Educational Standards), developed by Vasilyeva’s department, was criticized by many literature teachers, says Wikipedia.
During the period of leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva began to be accused of having connections with the Prosveshcheniye publishing house, which last years began to rapidly increase its share in the domestic market of educational literature, mainly due to government contracts for the purchase of textbooks included in the unified federal list of textbooks. For some reason, the publishing house's market share today already exceeds 31% and continues to grow. The company's net profit is also growing by leaps and bounds. In 2016, it increased by 30% and amounted to 4.4 billion rubles, and in 2017 it already exceeded 6 billion rubles. The total circulation of products produced during the year amounted to over 90 million copies in 2017 versus 79.1 million copies in 2016. After the final monopolization of the market, net profit may increase to 12-15 billion rubles.
Olga Vasilyeva’s biography on Wikipedia says that her focus on religious issues and her desire to introduce relevant topics into the educational process caused a number of negative assessments. A journalist is a critic of Vasilyeva’s activities as minister Alexander Nevzorov, who believes that “unfortunate children” will now face 11 years of torment at school after all the innovations of the Ministry of Education.
In June 2018, Olga Vasilyeva supported the reform of the pension system introduced by the authorities, which caused a sharply negative reaction from Russian society.
Personal life of Olga Vasilyeva
Olga Vasilievna was married. Divorced. In 1985, her daughter Vera was born. Vera Vasilyeva Graduated from the Gnessin Academy of Music. She lives in the capital.
Olga Vasilyeva's family was complete, religious and intelligent. Olga Yuryevna is also an Orthodox person and a deeply religious person.
In addition, Olga Yuryevna, as a real teacher, considers schoolchildren, whom she taught history and musical literacy for a long time, to be her children.
Olga Yurievna published 240 works of a scientific nature, she constantly gave patriotic lectures, including to party members “ United Russia" Under the leadership of Olga Vasilyeva, 3 doctoral and more than 25 candidate dissertations were prepared and defended.
Sphere scientific interests Olga Vasilyeva touches on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century, state-church relations in the Soviet period, international relations, problems of religious and political extremism, etc.
The list of Russian education ministers has been replenished with a new name. This event marked a number of changes in the Ministry of Education and Science. In August 2016 he was appointed new minister education in Russia.
The post was taken by O. Yu. Vasilyeva, who previously worked as deputy. Head of the Department of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for Public Projects. She replaced Dmitry Livanov, who had headed the department since 2012. Livanov was entrusted with the work of the special representative of the Russian President for trade and economic relations with Ukraine.
Kremlin assessment
The new Minister of Education of Russia Olga Vasilyeva, while holding her previous position as deputy. Head of the Presidential Administration, has established herself as a highly qualified expert in matters of education and science. She maintains a constant dialogue with representatives of the professional community. As an official, she is distinguished by a particularly valuable quality - high efficiency. This is how the new appointment was commented on in a conversation with TASS journalists by the head of the Russian Presidential Administration for Public Projects, Pavel Zenkovich.
The new Minister of Education and Science of Russia is “an insider” in the scientific and pedagogical community; an excellent expert, knowledgeable about all the problems in this area from the inside, the official added.
According to P. Zenkovich, the appointment of Olga Vasilyeva to the post of minister is in a certain sense a loss for the Directorate, but at the same time an honor, since the President decided to entrust an employee of the Directorate with such important tasks.
The official reminded reporters that O. Vasilyeva began working in the Department from the very moment of its creation, i.e. 3 and a half years ago. She took upon herself the resolution of issues related to the content of the education system. Earlier in the government, O. Vasilyeva also dealt with education issues. My labor activity she started out as a school teacher. According to P. Zenkovich, Olga Vasilyeva is excellent at finding mutual language with many representatives of the scientific community and higher education.
The candidacy of Olga Vasilyeva for the post of Minister of Education and Science was proposed to V. Putin by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who believed that this could intensify work in priority areas, including in the field of education. The President agreed with this proposal.
Acquaintance
O. Yu. Vasilyeva is Russian statesman, historian, religious scholar, teacher, doctor of historical sciences, professor, active state adviser of the Russian Federation, 2nd class. She became the first Russian history woman as Minister of Education and Science.
In addition, since 2002, O. Vasilyeva has headed the department of state-confessional relations at the Institute of State Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, and is a professor at the Moscow University of Humanities and Economics.
Biography of the Russian Minister of Education: early years
Future minister born. 01/13/1960 in the city of Bugulma (Tatarstan) in a family of school teachers. From 1979 (after graduating from the conducting and choral department of the Institute of Culture in Moscow) to 1982, she worked as a singing teacher in capital schools.
In 1982, Olga Vasilyeva entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute at the evening department of the history department; in addition to her studies, she worked at Moscow school No. 91 as a history teacher. In 1987, O. Vasilyeva graduated from the institute and continued her education by enrolling in graduate school at the Institute of History of the USSR.
Scientific activity
The biography of the Minister of Education of Russia O. Yu. Vasilyeva contains rich information about her scientific work. In 1990, under the scientific supervision of G. Kumanev (Institute of History of the USSR), Olga Vasilyeva defended her Ph.D. thesis. Her work was devoted to the relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church, as well as the patriotic activities of the Orthodox Church during the Second World War. The official opponents were: Ph.D. historical sciences Yu. Sharapov, V. G. Ovchinnikov. For the first time in Russian historiography, the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and the relationship between church and state in the twentieth century was described.
In 1998, O. Vasilyeva defended her doctoral dissertation on modern history Russian Orthodox Church. In 1991-2002, her place of work was the Center for the History of Church and Religion (Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Here Vasilyeva O.V., starting from the position of mln. researcher, “grew up” to head of the center. In 2002, she was appointed head of the department of state-confessional relations at RANEPA (Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) under the President of the Russian Federation. In 2003 she began teaching at the theological seminary on Sretenka.
In 2007, O. V. Vasilyeva completed her studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (specialty: “international relations”).
Publications
Vasilyeva O. Yu. - author of more than 160 scientific works. She is the supervisor of more than 25 candidate and 3 doctoral dissertations. Her research interests include the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century, relations between the state and the church during the USSR period, problems international relations, religious and political extremism, etc. From 1989 to 2008, she co-authored more than 90 articles on theological topics.
In addition, Olga Vasilyeva is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, Chairman of the Dissertation Council on Philosophy and Anthropology, Deputy. Chairman of the Dissertation Council on Theology under the President of the Russian Federation.
In public service
In February 2012, Vasiliev was appointed deputy. Director of the Government Department of Culture. In 2013, she began fulfilling her duties as deputy head of the department for public projects under the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
In 2014, she acted as one of the initiators of the discussion on conservatism in the All-Russian Popular Front. In subsequent years, O. V. Vasilyeva worked as a member of the council for the preparation of Russian history course programs at the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the commission for religious associations, the commission for the disabled, and the council for covering religious topics in the media.
By presidential decree in September 2014, she was awarded the rank of Active State Counselor, 2nd class. In August 2016, by presidential decree, she was appointed to the post of Minister of Education.
Resonance
This appointment caused a wide resonance in society; many famous people, representatives of the scientific, pedagogical and religious communities responded to it.
Religious and public figure Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev described the new Minister of Education as a person who knows many still undiscovered pages of the newest church history. In his opinion, the existing fears regarding the strengthening of clerical influence on the department after Vasilyeva’s appointment are completely groundless. Kuraev called the new minister a serious scientist. A similar assessment was given by physicist Andrei Zayakin. The scientific competence of O.V. Vasilyeva will not affect the work she will do as minister.
According to the director of the Institute of Public Service and Management, Doctor of Legal Sciences Igor Bartsits, Vasilyeva is distinguished by her ability to “hold” any audience with dignity, balance and calm, be it 17-year-old teenagers with bachelor’s degrees, students or representatives of government administrative structures.
Ministers of Education of Russia
The Ministry of Education in Russia has existed since 1990. In March 2004, by Presidential Decree, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation was created on the basis of this department. Russia's ministers of education were appointed by the head of state and dealt with issues of providing accessible, quality education to the population. Each of the officials who held this post was different high level competence and desire, while in the position entrusted to him, to bring maximum benefit to his homeland. Ministers of Education of Russia, in different years upon taking up the post, they held it for periods of varying lengths. Their list, starting in 1990, consists of the names:
- Eduard Dneprov. Took office in 1990. He performed his duties until December 1992, when he was appointed to the position of Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation.
- Evgenia Tkachenko. He headed the ministry from December 1992 to August 1996.
- Vladimir Kinelev. He headed the department from August 1996 to February 1998.
- Alexandra Tikhonova. He remained at the head of the ministry for a minimum period of 212 days, from March to September 1998. Left his post after the resignation of the government of S. Kiriyenko.
- Vladimir Filippov. He was appointed in September 1998 and resigned in March 2004.
- Andrey Fursenko. Replaced his predecessor in March 2004. He held office longer than other Russian education ministers - as much as 2995 days, until May 2012.
- Dmitry Livanov. Came to the ministry in May 2012. In 2016, he was appointed special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for economic and trade relations with Ukraine.
His successor was Olga Vasilyeva, who took over the post in August last year.
Reformatting
Immediately after Vasilyeva’s appointment to the post in August, changes began in the Ministry of Education and Science. The new minister removed several deputies from their posts. In addition, there was a collective voluntary dismissal of an entire group of employees of the science department.
In a relatively short period, several resignations were made in Vasilyeva’s circle. Only one appointment has taken place so far: in December last year, by order of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, a new Deputy Minister of Education of Russia was appointed. It was Irina Kuznetsova, a teacher of chemistry and biology by profession, who has experience working in 2 large Russian publishing houses.
Political scientists explain the change of personnel in the Ministry of Education and Science in two ways. Some see what is happening as the usual process of selecting suitable employees for the new head of the department. Others believe that significant changes may occur in the ministry in relation to science.
Olga Vasilyeva was born on January 13, 1960 in the city of Bugulma, Republic of Tatarstan. The girl was brought up in a religious family, so it is no coincidence that her further scientific activity always closely intertwined with religion. In her early childhood she was raised by her grandmother.
From high school Olga graduated at the age of fourteen, becoming known as a young prodigy. Since childhood, the girl was different from her peers in her mental abilities and an inexorable thirst for knowledge. In 1979 she graduated from the conducting and choral department of the Moscow State Institute of Culture.
For the next three years she worked as a singing teacher at schools No. 578 and No. 91 in Moscow. In 1982 she entered the evening department of the history department of the Moscow State Correspondence Pedagogical Institute, from which she graduated in 1987. Then she taught national history in high school at school No. 91.
From 1987 to 1990 she studied at the graduate school of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Upon completion, she defended her dissertation on the topic “The Soviet State and the Patriotic Activities of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic War,” receiving the academic degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Then, for fourteen years, Vasilyeva worked at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. She worked her way up from a junior researcher to a leading researcher and head of the Center for the History of Religion and the Church of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1999, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences, after successfully defending his dissertation on the topic: “Russian Orthodox Church in the politics of the Soviet state in 1943-1948.”
In 2002, Olga Yuryevna headed the Department of Religious Studies of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. Since 2003 he has been teaching at Sretensky Theological Seminary. Two years later, Vasilyeva was awarded the academic title of professor. Under her skillful leadership, three doctoral dissertations and over twenty-five candidate dissertations were prepared and defended. In 2007, her number of diplomas was higher education added: Olga Yuryevna graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a degree in International Relations.
Vasilyeva is the author of more than one hundred and sixty scientific papers. He is interested in issues from the field of politics and religion, in particular, the influence of the USSR church on the state and on the course of the Great Patriotic War, problems of religious extremism, the relationship between the church institution of Russia and foreign policy.
Olga Yuryevna repeatedly gave lectures on patriotism for members of the United Russia party, and was one of the organizers of the exhibition dedicated to the Romanov dynasty. The authors of the exhibition tried to convey to the public that the Romanovs were able to “strangle” the uprisings of their enemies, and the Decembrists tried to plunge the country into “bloody turmoil.” Olga's attitude towards Stalin is interesting. At her lectures, the doctor of history said that the secretary general conducted important work for the unity of the nation, promoting language and literature, which, although indirectly, contributed to the victory over Nazi Germany.
In February 2012, Vasilyeva was appointed to the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Culture of the Government of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of 2013, she became deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration for Public Projects, where she oversaw issues related to the implementation of public projects in the field of education, interacted with public associations and other structures of civil society.
Vasilyeva was also a member of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of Russia and the working group of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities on issues of creating conditions for the participation of people with disabilities in the cultural life of society.
In 2014, Olga Yuryevna was awarded the class rank of Actual State Advisor of the Russian Federation, II class. In the same year, she became a member of the working group to prepare the concept of a new educational and methodological complex on Russian history. Having proven herself to be an experienced and competent leader, Vasilyeva was appointed to the post of Minister of Education and Science by Decree of President Vladimir Putin on August 19, 2016, becoming the first woman in Russian history to hold this post.
Olga Vasilyeva is an Honorary Professor at the Moscow State University for the Humanities and Economics. Member of the International Association for the History of Religions. Member of the editorial boards of the journals “Science and Religion”, “State, Religion, Church in Russia and Abroad”, “Historical and Religious Studies”. She was a member of the Council for Coverage of Religious Topics in Electronic Media under the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Press, Television and Radio Broadcasting and Mass Communications.
Having headed the ministry, the official said that her main task would be to take care of the teaching staff, as well as rethink the experience of previous years. Olga Vasilyeva is going to take the best from the previous education system and supplement it with some necessary modern innovations.
