Military History Institute

an institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR; a scientific research institute in Moscow. Established in October 1967.

The main tasks of the Military History Institute are the study of problems of the Great Patriotic War and World War II and of the military past of our motherland and the study of methodological problems of military history. The institute coordinates scientific research work in the field of military history, trains scholarly cadres through graduate and military graduate schools, and prepares and publishes scholarly works, monographs, and scholarly popular works. The History Division of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR provides scholarly and methodological guidance to the Military History Institute. The journal of the institute is Vestnik voennoi istorii (Bulletin of Military History).