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December 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of the journal “Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri”, a periodical of the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which publishes papers on archaeography, source studies and history of Russia, first of all its Siberian region. The journal “Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri” traces its origins back to the Journal of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences called “Izvestiya SO AN SSSR” which, in turn, had a predecessor “Izvestia Vostochnykh filialov AN SSSR”. The last one was found by the decree of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, November 12, 1956. The journal was issued monthly in 1957, and published works of researchers from six branches of the Academy of Sciences. On December 13, 1957, Scientific Council of the SO AN SSSR appointed Academician S.L. Sobolev as the editor of the journal. In 1983, the journal was renamed “Izvestiya SO AN SSSR. Seria istorii, filologii i filosofii”, in 1992 the journal was named “Izvestiya Sibirskogo otdelenia Rossiyskoy Academii Nauk. Seria: istoriya, filologiya i filosofiya”. The journal got its modern title “Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri” in 1994. N.D. Zolnikova writes that in publications on the pages of the journal N.N. Pokrovsky and his students used “approaches characteristic for the historical anthropology: attention to everyday life, peculiarities of behavior of both individuals and their groups, identification of participants’ attitudes towards the events, etc.” The journal chief editors were S.L. Sobolev (1957-1967), G.A. Prudensky (1967), A.P. Okladnikov (1967-1981), A.P. Derevyanko (1982-1991), R. S Vasilievsky (1991-1998), V.E. Larichev (1998-2003), V.A. Ilinykh since 2003. The journal is published by publishing house of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. S.P. Mkrtchan headed the journal editorial department for many years. At present its head is V.I. Smirnova.