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Skaballanovich Nikolay (1848‒1918) – Byzantinist, historian of the Church, theologian. He graduated from the Vilna Theological Seminary and, in 1868, entered the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, from which he graduated in 1873. He defended his Master thesis ‘On the Apocrisis by Christopher Philalet’ in the autumn of the same year and, having received Master degree in Theology, remained at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy as Ass. Professor at the Department of Civil History. Ten years later, in 1884, he defended his thesis for Doctor of Theology (‘The Byzantine State and the Church in the Eleventh Century. From the Death of Basil II the Bulgar Slaeyr to the Accession of Alexios I Komnenos’.

Skvortsov (Stepanov) Ivan (1870–1928) – politician, economist, journalist, historian of religion. He was born in the vil. Mal’tsevo (now – town of Noginsk) of the Moscow Region. In 1880, he graduated from the Moscow Teachers-Training Institute and started to teach at the college of the basic level in Moscow. Since early 1890-s, he participated in revolutionary movement; in 1895, he was arrested, set under the police surveillance, but did not stop his membership in the Moscow Social Democratic organization. In 1899, he was arrested again, and sent to exile up to 1902. In the R.S.D.W.P. he supported Bolsheviks.

Smirin Moses (1895–1975) – historian Medievalist, specialist in the history of the Reformation. After 1917, he worked at secondary school and at the district committees on education; in 1921, he entered the Smolensk Institute of People’s Education, than studied at the Faculty of Social Studies of the Moscow State University, at the post-graduate courses of the Russian Association of Research Institute of Social Studies. In 1930-1934, he taught the world history at the Teachers-Training Institute and at the Communist University in the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). In 1935, he became Senior Researcher of the Moscow Branch of the State Academy of the History of material Culture; in 1937, he defended his thesis ‘The Agrarian Relations in the South-Western Germany in the Fifteenth – Sixteenth Centuries’.

Smirnov Aleksander (1857—1933) – historian of religion, Orthodox theologian. In 1879, he graduated from the Simbirsk Spiritual Seminary; in 1884 – the Kazan’ Spiritual Academy and got the rank of priest, and in 1896 – Archpriest. In 1888, he defended his Master thesis in Theology ‘The Book of Enoch’. In 1900, he got the Doctor degree for his thesis ‘Messianic Expectations and Judaic Beliefs about the time of Jesus Christ’. He studied and translated the Old Testament apocrypha (The Book of Jubilees; Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; and others). Docent (1891), Professor (1896-1912) of the Kazan’ Spiritual Academy; he supervised the Kazan’ University church.

Snegirev Ivan (1793–1868) – folklorist, ethnographer, historian. In 1814, he graduated from the Philological Department of the Moscow University. In 1815, he got the Master degree in Philology; since 1816, he was Adjunct, Teacher of Latin language at the Chair of Roman Literature and Antiquities of the Moscow University; in 1826-1835 – Professor of the Moscow University. In 1824-1855, he served as Censor. In 1819, he became Actual Member of the Society for Russian Literature; since 1821 – Librarian of the Society. In 1854, he was elected for Correspondent Member of the Ac. of Sc.

Snesarev Gleb (1910—1989) – Soviet ethnographer and specialist in religious studies, and in the field of spiritual culture of the peoples of the Central Asia. Having graduated from the Ethnographic Department of the Moscow State University, in 1931 —1936, he worked in Samarkand, at the Central State Museum of the Uzbek S.S.R. Then, he returned to Moscow and started to work at the Central Antireligious Museum, where he became a specialist on exhibition management, and a researcher with a obvious interest to the expedition activity (he gathered and studied monuments of the history of Islam in the republics of the Soviet Middle Asia. After a short work (1945—1952) in the office of the Ministry of State Security of the Moscow Region, S. became one of the leading ethnographers and specialists in religious studies at the Institute of Ethnography of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R.

Sobolev Andrey (1878‒1957) – priest, folklorist. He graduated from the Moscow Spiritual Academy; among his supervisors was Father Pavel Florensky. His main research on the theme of folk religious ideas was ‘The Afterworld According the Old Russian Concepts’ (1913); and it still keeps its significance. As sources of his works, S. used chronicles, Bylinas, archeological, ethnographical, and folklore materials.

Sobolevsky Aleksey (1856‒1929) – linguist, paleographer, specialist in Slavic studies, social activist. Brother of Sergey Ivanovich Sobolevsky. In 1874, he enrolled to the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Moscow University; after it taught at the High Female Courses. In 1882, he defended his Master thesis ‘Research in the Field of Russian Grammar’, and was invited to the Chair of Russian Language and Literature of the Kievan St Vladimir University. In 1884, he defended his Doctor thesis ‘Essays on the History of Russian Language’, and became Full Professor of the Kievan University. In 1888-1908, he was Head of the Chair of Russian Language and Literature at the St. Petersburg University. In 1908, he retired and returned to Moscow, where he headed the Commission on composing the ‘Dictionary of Old Russian Language’.

Sobolevsky Sergey (1864–1963) – philologist, specialist in classical studies, translator. Brother of Aleksey Ivanovich Sobolevsky. In 1882, he finished the 5th Moscow Gymnasium with the golden medal and enrolled to the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Moscow University. In 1886, he graduated from it with the Candidat

Sokolov Boris (1889–1930) – folklorist, philologist, ethnographer, specialist in museum work; twin-brother of Yury Matveevich Sokolov. He learnt at the 10th Moscow Male Gymnasium; in 1906, together with brother, he enrolled to the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Moscow University. In 1908-1909, also with his brother, he went at the expedition to the Belozersky and Kirillovsky Districts of the Novgorod Region to collect folklore and ethnographical material. In 1911, he stayed at the Faculty to prepare himself for the Master exams and for his thesis. At the same time, he started to reach students.