Information about the Publication

The founder is Federal State-Funded Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education ‘SouthUralStateUniversity’.

The series ‘Humanities and Social Sciences’was established in 2001.

The subscription index of the journal ‘Bulletin of South Ural State University’, series ‘Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the unified catalogue ‘The Press of Russia’ is 29076. The periodicity is 2 issues per year.  

The certificate of registration ПИ № ФС77-26455 issued on December 13, 2006 by Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communication and the Protection of Cultural Heritage.

The publication is registered in theISSNInternationalCenter, ISSN number 1990-8466.

The journal is included in ‘The list of leading reviewed academic periodicals and scientific publicationswhere main scientific results of doctoral and candidate’s dissertations are published’ by the decision of the Presidium of Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 6/6 dated February 19, 2010.

The Journal is included in the VINITI’s Abstract Journal and Data Bases. The Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) is constantly provided with the information about published articles according to a set form.

The information about publications is annually uploaded to the International reference system ‘Ulricht’s Periodicals Directory’.

Journal Themes

There are the following rubrics in the Journal:

  • Historical Sciences
  • Art History and Cultural Studies
  • Political Science
  • Social Science
  • Philosophy
  • Brief Communication
  • Review

The articles devoted to problems of archaeology and history are placed in the rubric ‘Historical Sciences’. The articles cover issues of ancient and modern history.  This rubric also contains works on historiography and source studies.

The articles devoted to urgent problems of art history and theoretical issues of cultural studies are placed in the rubric ‘Art History and Cultural Studies’.

The articles about political studies are published in the rubric ‘Political Science’.

In the rubric ‘Philosophy’ you can find articles which cover methodological problems of philosophy, philosophical anthropology and everyday philosophy.

Brief reports of postgraduate and master’s students are published in the rubric ‘Brief Communication’.

Original articles in each rubric should not exceed 12 pages. Brief reports in the rubric ‘Brief Communication’ should not exceed 5 pages.