Academic Degree: Doct. of Historical Sc.

Academic Rank: Associate Professor

Position: Chief Research Associate

Affiliation: Institute of Russian History of the RAS

Contact Data:

nikolay401@yandex.ru

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

Education and Training:

Kabardno-Balkaria State University (1968)

Institute of USSR History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, postgraduate courses

Candidate of Sciences degree (1972, theme of degree work ‘The Revolutionary committees of the North Caucasus in the process of establishment and consolidation of Soviet power (1918–1920)’), Doctor of Sciences degree (2006, theme of degree work ‘Emergency forces of Soviet power (1918–1921)')

Employment History:

Department of USSR History, Moscow State Historical-Archives Institute (1974–1975), teacher

From 1977 — Institute of USSR History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academic secretary, head of the Sector and the Group for studies of national relations in USSR (Russia).

1993–2002 — head of Department of Deported and Repressed Peoples' Affairs, Department of North Caucasus Affairs, Department of Russian Peoples' Affairs, Department of Nationalities’ Affairs of the Ministry of Federation Affairs, Department of National and Migration Policy of Russian Federation, member of the Ministry Board.

From 1999 — head of Department of Nationalities’ Affairs of the Ministry of Federation and Nationalities’ Affairs of the Russian Federation.

From March 2002 — consultant, counsellor of the Department of Regional Development at the Government Office of the Russian Federation, then counsellor of the Department of Inter-ethnic Relations of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.

Key Disciplines Taught:

Research Interests: national relations, nation-building, inter-ethnic relations, peoples’ deportation and reabilitation; Russian peoples, Cossacks

List of Most Essential Works:

Monographs:

Bugai N. F. Joseph Stalin to Lavrentiy Beria: ‘We need to deport them...’. Moscow, 1992.

Bugai N. F. Military Action Named ‘Ulusy’. Elista, 1991.

Bugai N. F. Peoples and Authority: ‘a Socialist Experiment’. Maykop, 1994.

Bugai N. F. L. Beria to J. Stalin: ‘According to Your Directive...’. Moscow, 1995.

Bugai N. F. Social Naturalization and Ethnic Mobilization (experience of Koreans in Russia). Moscow, 1998.

Bugai N. F. Russian Koreans and policy of ‘sun heat’. Moscow, 2002.

Bugai N. F., Gonov A. M. North Caucasus: New Benchmarks of National Policy (the 1990s).

Pak B. D., Bugai N. F. 140 years in Russia. The Essays on History of Russian Koreans. Moscow, 2004.

Bugai N. F., Sim Hon Yong. Public Organizations of Russian Koreans: Constitutiveness, Evolution and Adoption. Moscow, 2004.

Bugai N. F., Mamaev M. I. Turks-Meskhetians: Georgia, Uzbekistan, Russia, USA. Moscow, 2009.

Bugai N. F. North Caucasus. Nation-building and Federative Relations: Past in Present. Moscow, 2011.

Bezugolny A. Yu., Bugai N. F., Krinko E. F. The Highlanders of North Caucasus in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945): to the Issue of History, Historiography and Source Studies. Moscow, 2012.

Bugai N. F. The Kurd Society in Russia: Political and Legal Experience, Integration, Ethnocultural Renewal (1917–2010s). Moscow, 2012.

Bugai N. F. The Issues of Nationals’ Repressions and Rehabilitation: History and Historiography. 20^th cent. – beginning of 21^th cent. Moscow, 2012.

Bugai N. F. The Roma of Russia: Society, Adaptation, Consensus (1900–2010). Moscow, 2012.