This is a woman who has an iron will, studies the military historical period, publishes her scientific articles and at the same time is a professor at the Department of History of the Russian State Pedagogical University. Herzen. Meet: Cantor Julia Zorakhovna.
Childhood and school years
Julia Zorakhovna was born in the city of Leningrad in 1972. From childhood, she loved literature and read a lot of books. In the house where her grandparents lived, there was a huge library. It was precisely on a visit to grandmother Cantor Julia that she became acquainted with the fascinating world of literature and history. In school years, her love of reading only intensified, so she spent a lot of time reading in the school library. Julia was especially diligent, responsible and held the honorary post of headman for almost three years. In all subjects she had round fives. Perhaps, thanks to a good history teacher who taught very interesting lessons, Julia decided to become a teacher herself. After graduating from school in 1989, she decided to go to a pedagogical institute. Having passed the entrance exams for high scores, Julia was able to choose one of the most prestigious universities in Leningrad - RSPU them. Herzen.
Years of study at the university
Julia Kantor, whose biography is closely intertwined with science and history, back in the university years established herself as a girl with a broad outlook and developed thinking. Received Julia at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Herzen in 1990, studied for 5 years with a degree in General History and in 1995 received a diploma. In her third year, as a student, Julia began working with various magazines and published her historical notes and short articles. The main topics for study, she identified the pre-war period, Soviet-German relations and all aspects of the Second World War.
Julia Kantor - historian and professor
In 2001, Julia defended her dissertation in the specialty "Russian Language" and in 2001 received the post of adviser to the director - leading researcher at the State Hermitage Museum on displaced art from the Second World War. To this day, he is a leading researcher at the museum, which is responsible for the preservation and proper placement of all exhibits dedicated to the war period. In the same year, she was actively engaged in teaching at St. Petersburg State University, taught students of the faculty of journalism.
In 2007, Cantor Julia received the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences, defending her doctoral dissertation "Military-political relations of the USSR and Germany." Since then, she devoted herself to the further study of Soviet-German relations and regularly publishes her scientific works in the most popular magazines.
Scientific works and books of Julia Kantor
Thanks to her work in the editorial department of the newspaper Nevskoye Vremya (also a correspondent for the Izvestia newspaper), Kantor Yulia had access to a large database of classified documents from the Second World War. Curiosity and a craving for knowledge prompted Julia to seriously study the entire period of the war. She described her studies in detail in her books. For example, in 2008, Julia published one of her most powerful works - a book on Stalinist repressions. “The War and Peace of Tukhachevsky” is a book that describes detailed details about the “military case”, it is based on the life example of the Soviet military commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Yulia Zorakhovna is the author of a number of historical books, such as Sworn Friendship. Secret Relations of the USSR and Germany, Baltic States. War without Rules, Tukhachevsky. All books are based on reliable sources, because when they were written, Julia used data from unique documents taken from the Central Archive of the FSB and foreign military archives. In these books you can find answers to many questions regarding the political motives of certain events, for example, the repressions of 1937-1939.
Social work
In addition to scientific activities, Cantor Julia is actively involved in public affairs. She constantly speaks at various meetings with proposals to perpetuate the memory of victims of repression. So, for example, in 2012, Julia was appointed a member of the expert group of the program to help the needy victims of political repression. Of course, the state provides assistance (financial support ranging from 300 to 2,000 rubles), but Julia Zorakhovna believes that this is too little. “We need every Russian citizen to realize that the repression of the 20th century is a common national tragedy,” she says.
To the question of how she manages to combine work at the university (we recall that she is a professor at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of History) with active social activities, Yulia Zorakhovna replies that competent time management helps her.