Nataliya Lebina

Natalia Borisovna Lebina is a Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and professor. She is a scientific consultant at the D.S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage. She is a well-known researcher of the history of everyday life in Russia. Natalia Lebina was born in Leningrad in 1948. In 1966, she graduated from Physics and Mathematics School No. 38 and entered the Faculty of History at the Zhdanov Leningrad State University. In 1971, she graduated with honors and began postgraduate study in the full-time doctoral program at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Lebina was one of the first to begin the professional study of the socio-domestic aspects of Russia’s past in the context of everyday history. In 1975, she defended her Candidate of Sciences dissertation, and in 1994 she received the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences after defending her dissertation in Moscow. In 1992, Lebina became a senior researcher at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. In 1994, together with researchers K. Kiaer and E. Nyman, she organized the international scholarly conference “Russian Everyday Life: New Approaches.” From March 1995 to September 2010, Lebina was a professor in the Department of the History of Russia and Foreign Countries at the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance. At the university, in addition to the main course on Russian history, she taught a special course, “The History of Russian and Soviet Manners.” Under her supervision, six Candidate of Sciences dissertations were defended. In 1995, she was invited to head the “Russian Everyday Life” section in the Russian national historical magazine Rodina. In 2006, Lebina’s book Encyclopedia of Banality. Soviet Everyday Life: Outlines, Symbols, Signs was published; it was highly praised by specialists and was included in the top ten at the 2006 Non/Fiction book fair. Two years later, the second edition of the book appeared. In 2015, Lebina’s new book Soviet Everyday Life: Norms and Anomalies. From War Communism to the Great Style was longlisted for the Enlightener Prize. In 2010 and 2013, Lebina served as moderator of a session and as a commentator at the