Nikita Lomakin, PhD

E-Mail: lomakinu@gmail.com

Professional Employment:

Since 2023 - Research fellow at the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Jena

2022 - 2023 Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Memory Work scholarship, funded by Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung der SED Diktatur

2011 - 2022 Historical and Civil Rights Society “International Memorial”. Last position: head of archive digitisation program

2019- 2022 Institute of Anthropology and Etnography of Russian Academy of Science (researcher)

2010-2011 Moscow State University, Faculty of History, assistant at the Department of Medieval History

2008-2012 “Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia” ecclesiastical research center (Department of History of Catholic Church), editor

Education and Fellowships:

2021-2022 Netology Product Manager advanced training course

2020 Russian Presidential Library (“Describing digital collections” course)

2019 Marion Dönhoff Foundation Fellowship

2017-2018 Jena University (“Exhibiting Contemporary History” postgraduate certificate programme)

2012 Moscow State University, PhD in History

2009 Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales” (Internship)

2008 Moscow State University, Faculty of History, M.A.

2007-2008 Humboldt University Berlin (Internship)

Publications (selected):

• Чужими голосами. Память о крестьянских восстаниях эпохи Гражданской войны. Под ред. Кравченко А. В., Ломакина Н. А. Москва: НЛО, 2022 [В печати]. Введение и заключение в соавторстве [Kravchenko A., Lomakin N. (ed.) By somebody’s else’s voices. Memory about peasant uprisings of Russian Civil War. Moscow, 2022[In print] (Incl. Preface, Conclusion)]​
   
• ​Lomakin N. Spielen im Untergrund. Handgefertigte Brettspiele in der späten Sowjetunion // Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung. 2021. S. 157–176

• Ломакин Н. Новорусаново: свои. Память о Тамбовском восстании и о коммуне «Дача» // Чужими голосами. Память о крестьянских восстаниях эпохи Гражданской войны. Под ред. Кравченко А. В., Ломакина Н. А. Москва, НЛО 2022 [В печати] [Lomakin N. Novorusanovo: «svoi». Memory about Tambov uprising and «Dacha» commune // Kravchenko A., Lomakin N. (ed.) By somebody’s else’s voices…]

• ​Lomakin N. Institutions, Stakeholders and the City in the 2010s Renaming Policy in Russia // Journal of Geography, Politics and Society. 2020. Vol. 10(3). P. 29–41

• Кравченко А. В., Ломакин Н. А., Склез В. М., Соколова А. Д. Парадоксы темпоральности: память о крестьянских восстаниях 100 лет спустя // Сибирские исторические исследования. 2020. № 1. С. 144-165 [Kravchenko A., Lomakin N, Sklez V., Sokolova A. Paradoxes of Temporality: Remembering Peasant Uprisings 100 Years Later // Siberian Historical Research. 2020 (1). P. 144-165]

• ​Different Wars. Exhibition catalogue. Berlin, 2017 (coauthor); Разные войны. Школьные учебники о Второй мировой войне / под ред. Ломакина Н. А. Москва, 2018

• Соломина О. Н., Бушуева И. С., Долгова Е. А., Золотокрылин А. Н., Кузнецова В. В., Кузнецова Т. О., Кухта А. Е., Лазукова Л. И., Ломакин Н. А., Мацковский В. В., Матвеев С. М., Михайлов А. Ю., Михаленко В. Н., Пожидаева Д. С., Румянцев Д. Е., Cакулина Г. А., Семёнов В. А., Хасанов Б. Ф., Черенкова Е. А., Чернокульский А. В. Засухи восточно-европейской равнины по гидрометеорологическим и дендрохронологическим данным. М.; Спб., 2017 [As coauthor. Droughts of East European Plain according to Hydrometeorological and Dendrochronological Data. Moscow, 2017]

• Ломакин Н. Власти и общества России в борьбе за топонимику. 2010-е // Векторы развития современной России: от формирования ценностей к изобретению традиций. М., 2015. С. 102-113 [Lomakin N. Authorities and Societies of Russia struggling for place-naming. 2010s // Vectors of Modern Russia Development: from Values Shaping to Tradition’s Invention. Moscow, 2015. P. 102-113]

• Ломакин Н. Пять лет до вечности. Регламентация топонимики российских городов в 1990-2000-х годах // Историческая разметка пространства и времени / Под ред. И. Куриллы. Волгоград, 2014 [Lomakin N. Five Years before the Eternity. Regulation of Russian urban toponymy in the 1990-2000s // Kurilla I. (ed.) Historical Markup of Time and Space. Volgograd, 2014]

• Ломакин Н. Папский церемониал и городское пространство Рима в XII в.// История. 2012. Вып. 1. [Электронное издание] URL: http://www.mes.igh.ru/magazine/content/papskii-zeremonial.html [Lomakin N. Papal Ceremonial and Urban Space of Rome in the 12th Century // History. 2012 (1). Digital edition]

• ​Ломакин Н. Сценарии власти в современной России // Русский журнал [Электронное издание]. 2012. URL: http://www.russ.ru/pole/Scenarii-vlasti-v-sovremennoj-Rossii. [Lomakin N. Scenarios of Power in the Modern Russia // Russian Journal. 2012. Digital edition]

Digital Projects:

2022 Open archive of letters from and to GULAG, supporting thematical, geographical and personal indexes and EAD import and export. Beta-version was finished and ready to be used as a tool for publication.

2021 Geographical database of Memorial. Database of places inside Soviet union emphasises change of names, administrative borders and status of settlements since 1920 till 1989. Beta-version was finished and ready to be published.

2018-2022 Internal Archival Database of International Memorial. Database unites personal, geographical, and institutional indexes with documents inventory and digitised documents of archive. Supports EAD import and export.

2021 memoirs.memo.ru. Online publication of archival collection of memoirs about GULAG. Each memoir (over 1000 were prepared for publishing, over 600 published) has annotation, there are united index of topics and persons mentioned.

2020 ost-west.memo.ru. Online publication of lists of ostarbeiters from State Archive of Russian Federation and International Memorial archive. Each list is supplied with geographical index, most of them are transcribed.

2018-2019 ost.batenka.ru (landing unavailable now) Podcast “Ostarbeiters” based on International Memorial archive interviews. Laureate of “Enlightener” national price as best digital educational project (2019).

2018 fond21.memo.ru Digitisation and online publication of collection of ostarbeiter documents from International Memorial archive.

2017 Ost-db.tastorona.su: Open database on forced labour during WWII based on 320.000 letters; platform for crowdsourcing verification of the database

2015 Tastorona.su Archive of ostarbeiters and Soviet Prisoners of war: Oral-history archive containing more than 200 interviews taken in the 1980-2000s. Supplied with elaborated indexes of topics, places and persons mentioned

2015 Archivist: Open-source publishing tool for oral history interviews


Exhibition curation and other projects:

2021-2022 1919. Videogame. A detective point-and-click adventure occurring in the setting of Veliky Novgorod city after the revolution.

2020-2021 A Probe. Exhibition in honor of Andrey Sakharov (Politechnic Museum in Moscow). Was prohibited by Moscow Department of culture a couple of days before starting installation. A part of the exhibition was shown in Russian Academy of Science in Autumn 2021.

2018-2020 Postscriptum: Eastern workers in the Third Reich (International Memorial Exhibition). Travelling exhibition shown in Moscow, Veliky Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Pskov, Kostroma. Translated into Belorussian and shown in Minsk. Translated into German and shown in Berlin (Karlshorst Museum, Schöneweide Zentrum).

2018 74. Boardgame about Soviet History. Developing and publishing of a bordgame which is based on one of International Memorial Museum objects.

2015-2017 Different Wars. National School Textbooks on WWII (EU-Russia Civil Society Forum Exhibition): A travelling exhibition shown in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Milan, Bruxells, Strasbourg, Perm, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Vilnius, Münster et al.

2015-2016 Right of correspondence: An International Memorial exhibition of letters sent from and to Gulag-camps and prisons during 1930-1950-s . Researcher

2014 Fair Enough: Russian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale. Researcher