Gennady Osipov

Osipov graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) in 1952.

Thanks to his organizational and scientific activities, sociology has become a vital component of humanitarian and social sciences.

He made a major contribution to the development of theoretical and methodological basis of scientific analysis of the socio-political situation in Russia with due regard for foreign sociological thought.

In the 1960-70s he initiated the translation of the papers by American and British sociologists into Russian.

Osipov is the author of the first Russian textbook on sociology – Rabochaya kniga sotsiologa (Sociologist's handbook) which was translated into various languages.