Fyodor Semyonovich Gorovoy (Russian: Фёдор Семёнович Горово́й February 9 (22), 1916, Ploskoe village, Ananyevsky county, Kherson province — June 8, 1973, Perm) was a Soviet historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, head of the Department of History of the USSR (1948-1961), Rector of Perm State University (1961–1970), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1966), member of the Scientific Council for the History of Cities and Villages under the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
After the army, he worked as a school principal and head of the local education authority and at the same time studied in postgraduate course at the Department of History of the USSR of Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute.
On June 28, 1946, he was awarded the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences after defending his PhD thesis "Unrest of the peasants of the Perm Cis-Urals in the 60s of the XIX century".
[1] In 1952–1954, he studied at the doctoral program of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, scientific consultant — V. K. Yatsunsky.
On November 15, 1954, he defended his doctoral dissertation "The abolition of serfdom in the Urals" (official opponents S. M. Dubrovsky, P. A. Zayonchkovsky and M. V. Nechkina).