• Doctor of Sciences in History, Professor,
• Leading Researcher in the History Department 

Research interests: the history of Russian traditional confessional culture, social conscience in modern Russia.

Aleksandr Apanasenok is a member of the Editorial Board of scientific peer-reviewed journals: "Proceedings of Southwest State University. The series: History and Law", Information and analytical journal of INION RAN "The social sciences and humanities. Domestic and foreign literature. Series 5, History", "Christian Pilgrimage Review", Lecturer of the All-Russian Society "Znanie" ("Knowledge").

During 2004-2023 Aleksandr Apanasenok was the head of a number of research projects supported by grants from Russian Foundation of Humanities, Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research and other academic foundations.

The main publications:

1. Apanasenok A.V. Religious Traditionalism in Provincial Russia: the history of the Old Believer Communities of the Central Chernozem region in the XVII — early XX century. Kursk: ROSI, 2014. 397 p. (in Russian). URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=23877738

2. Apanasenok A. V. «Batiushka with motorcycle» in the Soviet village: experience of a local historical-biographic research //Bulletin of Tver State University. Series: History, vol. 52, no. 4, 2019, pp. 126–137 (in Russian). URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_items.asp?authorid=261547

3. Apanasenok A.V. "Journey to God": the perception of pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the rural provincial society of the early XX century // Proceedings of Southwest State University. The series: History and Law, vol. 10, no. 5, 2020, pp. 188—199 (in Russian). URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44277874

4. Apanasenok A.V. Palestinian readings in the spiritual life of the Russian village in the beginning of the XX century // Bulletin of State and Municipal Administration, vol. 4, no. 4, 2020, pp. 94-102 (in Russian). DOI: 10.22394/2225-8272-2020-9-4-94-102 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44421034

5. Apanasenok A.V. Pilgrimage of Russian peasants to Palestine in the late XIX — early XX century // Proceedings of Southwest State University. The series: History and Law, vol. 10, no. 6, 2020, pp. 198-211 (in Russian). URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44508506

6. Apanasenok A.V. Provincial Old Believers in 1914 – late 1980s: destinies, practices of confession, confessional identity. In: Personal history of Orthodoxy: the fate of the Church and believers in the modern History of Russia: a collective monograph / Ed. M. V. Kail. Smolensk: SmolGU, 2021. P. 107 – 157. (in Russian). DOI: 10.35785/978-5-88018-655-6-2021-107-157 (индексируется РИНЦ). URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46284432

7. Apanasenok A.V. "Lord, help me to pass the exam": Orthodox practices of Soviet students in the 1940s — 1960s // Proceedings of Southwest State University. The series: History and Law, vol. 11, no. 5, 2021, pp. 205-216 (in Russian). DOI: 10.21869/2223-1501-2021-11-5-205-216 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=47181777

8. Apanasenok A.V. (co-authored with A. Y. Bubnov). Orthodox practices in the structure of everyday life of the USSR citizens in 1940s — 1950s // Questions of History, no. 12-3, 2021. pp. 204-214 (in Russian). 10.31166/VoprosyIstorii202112Statyi93 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=47539860

9. Apanasenok A. V. (co-authored with I.S. Pudyakova). Practice Orthodox baptism in the USSR in mirror of statistics and researches estimates in 1940-s – 1970-s. // Via in tempore. History. Political science, vol. 50, no. 2, 2022. pp. 413–424 (in Russian). DOI: 10.52575/2687-0967-2022-49-2-413-424 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=49065753

10. Apanasenok A.V. "Almost Soviet father": the experience of microhistoric research of rural confessional history in 1940s-1970s // Scientific Dialogue. vol. 11, no. 8, 2022, pp. 313-331 (in Russian). DOI: 10.24224/2227-1295-2022-11-8-313-331 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=49601926

11. Apanasenok A. V. ‘Faithful Collective Farmers and “Communist Priests”: Coexistence of Orthodox and “Socialist” Cultures in the Life of the Soviet Village in the Late Stalin and Khrushchev Periods’ // Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 4, 2022, pp. 1018–1034 (in Russian). DOI: 10.21638/spbu24.2022.412 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=50082422

12. Apanasenok A. V. The "Communist" transformation and the phenomenon of Soviet Patriotism among Orthodox Believers in the late USSR // Outlines of Global Transformations: Politics. Economics. vol. 15, no. 5, 2022, pp. 163–184 (in Russian). DOI: 10.21638/spbu24.2022.412 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=50082422

13. Soviet Identity and Problems of Religiosity: Orthodox Practices in the Everyday Life of Soviet Citizens in the 1940 - 1980s: collective monograph / edited by A.V. Apanasenok. Kursk: ROSI, 2022. 321 p. (in Russian). URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=49916519

14. Apanasenok A.V. Grandmother’s icons and "natural" fasting: Orthodox culture in the daily life of "ordinary" citizens of the late USSR // Proceedings of Southwest State University. The series: History and Law, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, pp. 122-137 (in Russian). DOI: 10.21869/2223-1501-2023-13-1-122-137 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=50463797

15. Apanasenok A.V. «Pensioners, Housewives and Other Citizens»: to the Question of the Orthodox Believers’ Social Composition in the USSR of the 1940–1970s. // Via in tempore. History and political science. vol. 50, no. 3, 2023, pp. 746–757 (in Russian). DOI: 10.52575/2687-0967-2023-50-3-746-757 URL: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=54709078

• RSCI ID: 261547
• ORCID ID 0000-0003-4650-3730
• Scopus Author ID: 56607294300
• Web of Science Researcher ID ABF-4944-2020