Honorary Professors

Rector of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. President of the Russian Union of Rectors. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, the State Prize of the Russian Federation, two prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education and a prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» was awarded in 2003.

Film director and screenwriter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People’s Artist of Russia, three times laureate of the State Prize of Russia, winner of the Golden Lion of the 68th Venice Film Festival and the Golden Leopard of the International Film Festival in Locarno, laureate of the United Nations Prize, laureate of the Prize of the Holy See (Vatican) «Man of the Third Millennium», laureate of the Robert Bresson Prize, Vittorio de Sica Prize (State Prize of Italy), Andrei Tarkovsky Prize, Triumum Prize «Named after Grigory Kozintsev Prize, winner of two awards» Nika «, three times winner of TEFI. According to the decision of the European Film Academy A.N. Sokurov is included in the list of one hundred best directors of the world.

The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» was awarded in 2007.

Artistic director and chief conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic.People’s Artist of the USSR, Laureate of two State Prizes of the USSR, State Prize of the RSFSR them. M.I. Glinka and the State Prize of the Russian Federation, President of the International Center of the Roerichs.Full Commander of the Order «For Services to the Fatherland». The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» was awarded in 2010.

Historian and sociologist, publicist. Professor at New York University in Abu Dhabi. He worked under the leadership of Immanuel Wallerstein at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems and Civilizations at the University of New York in Binghamton. Candidate of Historical Sciences, Ph.D. (PhD) in Sociology. Currently he teaches macrohistorical sociology at the Northwestern University in Chicago.The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» was awarded in 2011.

Social and cultural activist. Since the 1970s he has been working on the collection of folklore monuments, musical jokes, various historical sources and literature on the history and culture of the Adygs and other peoples of the North Caucasus.

Honored cultural figure of the CBD. The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» was awarded in 2012.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Academy of Social Education of the Russian Federation, International Academy of Social Work (IASW). Commissioner for Human Rights in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Honorary Professor of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov (2020).

People’s writer of the Republic of Adygea and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. Chairman of the Union of Writers of the Republic of Adygea, member of the Writers’ Union of Russia. He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the IV degree, the Order of Friendship of Peoples. The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov» was awarded in 2016.

Director of the Russian Ethnographic Museum, a member of the Presidium of the Union of Museums of Russia, a member of the Board of the Committee for Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg, a member of the Public Council under the Governor of St. Petersburg, an expert in interethnic relations. Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Order of Friendship and the Order of Honor. The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berberov» was awarded in 2016.

Director General of the State Hermitage Museum, Dean of the Eastern Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the IV degree, the Order of Friendship, the Order of Honor, the Pushkin Medal, the Medal «In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg», the Medal «In Memory of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan», the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation, the President’s Prize Russian Federation in the field of literature and art. The title of «Honorary Professor of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berberov» was awarded in 2016.