Political, Economic, and Social Factors Affecting the Development of Russian Statehood: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Bogdan Anatolyevich Ershov was born on June 18, 1982 in the city of Voronezh (Russian Federation). In 1999 he entered the Voronezh State Pedagogical University as a full-time department of the Faculty of History, which he graduated in 2004 with a degree in history with an additional specialty in social pedagogy. In 2007 he defended his thesis on the theme: “The Church of the Russian province in the XIX century (on the materials of the Voronezh province)” in the specialty 07.00.02 - the history of Russia. In 2012 he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic “The Russian Orthodox Church in the System of State Relations in the 19th - Early 20th Centuries (Based on Materials From the Central Black Earth Provinces)” in the specialty Domestic History. In 2013 he was awarded the academic title of associate professor. From 2014 to the present, Bogdan Yershov is a professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology and History of the Voronezh State Technical University.

Igor Ashmarov was born on November 18, 1975. In 1997, he graduated from the history department of the Voronezh State University. In 2003 Ashmarov I.A. defended his thesis. Thesis: “Economic institutions of the labor market” (place of defense - Voronezh State University). In 2009, he was awarded the academic title of associate professor. From 2014 to the present, Ashmarov Igor has been working as an assistant professor in the department of humanitarian and socio-economic disciplines of the Voronezh State Institute of Arts.