Nikolai Biryukov: Education and Degrees

 

Elementary and Secondary Education

o        Secondary School No. 45 (Moscow) (1957-1958)

o        Secondary School No. 43 (Moscow) (1958-1967)

Graduate

o        Moscow State Institute for International Relations
Faculty of International Economic Relations (1967-1972)

Qualification (Major): International Economic Relations
Qualification (Minor): Management of International Transport

Postgraduate

o        Moscow State Institute for International Relations
Department of Philosophy (1974-1977)

Specialisation (Major): Philosophy
Specialisation (Minor): History of Philosophy

Professional Skills Enhancement

o        Moscow State Institute for International Relations
Faculty of Professional Skills Enhancement (1982)

o        Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.) (2003)

Honours, Degrees and Ranks

o        School Graduation Certificate (with Silver Medal)
Secondary School No. 43 (Moscow) (1967)

o        Diploma (with Honours) (» M.A. cum laude)
Moscow State Institute for International Relations (1972)

Diploma Thesis:
The Port of Karachi: The Contemporary Condition and Prospects for Development

o        Academic Degree of Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (» Ph.D. in Philosophy)
Institute for Sociological Research, USSR Academy of Sciences (1983)

Ph.D. Dissertation:
A Critique of Contemporary Bourgeois Theories of Political Leadership

o        Academic Rank of Docent (» Associate Professor) in Department of Philosophy
State Committee for Higher Education, the Russian Federation (1994)

Prize

o        Yu. P. Frantsev Prize for the best scholarly monograph of the year
Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO-University) (2004)

Monograph:
Stanovlenie institutov predstavitel’noy vlasti v sovremennoy Rossii
[The Making of Representative Institutions in Contemporary Russia]