Legal and postal addresses of the founder and publisher: Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation

Editorial office address: Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series "Humanitarian and Social Sciences", 56 ul. Uritskogo, Arkhangelsk

Phone: (818-2) 21-61-20, ext. 18-20
E-mail: vestnik_gum@narfu.ru
https://vestnikgum.ru/en/

ABOUT JOURNAL

Aims and Scope

The journal is an academic peer-reviewed online periodical.  Until 1 January 2012 its name was Vestnik of Pomor University. Series “Humanitarian and Social Sciences”

The journal’s aim is to provide scholars with the opportunity to publish research results in the key areas of the humanities and social sciences.

The journal’s mission is to highlight current issues of history, linguistics and philosophy as well exchange information with the international scientific community.

The journal is included by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the list of reviewed scientific journals, in which major scientific results of theses for academic degrees of candidate and doctor of science have to be published.

The Journal has been assigned to Category 2 on the Higher Attestation Commission’s list.

More details on VAK specialities can be found in the documents of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: https://vak.minobrnauki.gov.ru/documents#tab=_tab:editions~

The journal has been assigned to level 3 on the Unified State List of Scientific Publications (the “White List”) (dated September 12, 2025) https://journalrank.rcsi.science/ru/record-sources/details/31675/

We publish articles in Russian and English.

Editor in Chief – Doctor of History, Professor Vladislav Goldin

Executive secretary of the journal: Irina Kuznetsova
Tel.: (818-2) 21-61-00, ext. 18-20   e-mail: vestnik_gum@narfu.ru

Subscriptional index – 38555

The journal is issued bi-monthly and publishes key research results in the following fields:

5.6. Historical Sciences
        5.6.1. Russian history
        5.6.2. World history
        5.6.5. Historiography, source study, historical method
        5.6.6. History of science and technology (historical sciences)
        5.6.7. History of international relations and foreign policy

5.7. Philosophy
        5.7.1. Ontology and theory of knowledge
        5.7.7. Social and political philosophy
        5.7.8. Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture
        5.7.9. Philosophy of religion and religious studies

5.9. Philology
        5.9.5. Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia
        5.9.6. Foreign languages (German, English, Spanish, French) (instead of 10.02.04 and 10.02.05)
        5.9.8. Theoretical, applied and comparative linguistics (instead of 10.02.19 and 10.02.20)

The journal is an open access publication. The author of an article grants usage rights to others using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute and print full texts of articles or use them for any other lawful purpose.

Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series "Humanitarian and Social Sciences" is registered with the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) as a Russian-language online publication, certificate: El no. FS77-89123 of 7 February 2025.

Full texts of all articles are available for free and open access without delay. There is no embargo period or requirement for users to register to read content. Print versions of the journal (upon request) are available for purchase.

Our authors are scholars and academics doing research, as well as postgraduate students and applicants for academic degrees.

Our readers include a wide range of specialists in the field of the humanities and social sciences.

Editorial Board of Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series “Humanitarian and Social Sciences” 

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