About the Enlightener Prize

Jury

The Prosvetitel Prize

Alexander Arkhangelsky — Chairman of the Jury, writer, populariser and publicist

Alexandra Arkhipova — a folklorist, social anthropologist, host of the telegram channel (Un)entertaining anthropology.

Andrey Konyaev
 — PhD in Physics and Mathematics, N+1 publisher.

Mikhail Mayzuls
 — PhD in History, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Educational and Scientific Research of Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and Modern Times of the Russian State University of Humanities, winner of the 2022 Prosvetitel Prize for his book The Imaginary Enemy: Non-Christians in Medieval Iconography.

Sergey Popov
 — astrophysicist, professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences and winner of the prize Commitment to Science.

Olga Filatova
 — Doctor of Biological Sciences (Dr. habil.), a postdoc at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), an expert in mammalian acoustic communication and cetacean behaviour and winner of the 2022 Prosvetitel Prize for her book Cloudy with a Chance of Killer Whales.


The Prosvetitel.Perevod Prize

Oleg Voskoboynikov — Chairman of the Jury, medievalist, Doctor of Historical Sciences (Dr. habil.), Doctor of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, Resident Professor of the Higher School of Economics at the National Research University, translator, co-founder of Stradarium, author of the books 16 Essays on the History of Art (longlisted for the Prosvetitel Prize), Medieval Times in Focus (shortlisted for the Prosvetitel Prize) and others.

Victor Sonkin
 — a philologist, journalist and translator, winner of the 2013 Prosvetitel Prize for the book Here Was Rome.

Ekaterina Aksenova
 — an author of a telegram channel and a blog about popular science books prometa.pro.

Dmitry Prokofiev
 — a translator, winner of The Prosvetitel.Perevod Prize for his translation of Richard Rhodes' book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

Asya Kazantseva
 — a science journalist, science populariser, winner of the 2014 Enlightener Prize for her book Who Would Have Thought: How the Brain Makes Us Do Stupid Things, author of the books The Brain is Tangible (longlisted for the Prosvetitel Prize, 2020), Someone's Wrong on the Internet! Scientific Investigations of Controversial Issues (shortlisted for the Prosvetitel Prize, 2017), etc.


The Special Prosvetitel Prize Award — PolitProsvet

Ekaterina Shulman — Jury Chairperson, PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor of KAZGYUU, Astana, former member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.

Alexander Gorbachev — a journalist and editor of Kholod magazine.

Anna Narinskaya
 — a journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Maxim Trudolyubov
 — a researcher at the Kennan Institute, author and editor of the Ideas section at Meduza.

Nikolai Epple
 — a philologist, translator, researcher of historical memory and winner of the 2021 Prosvetitel Prize for the book An Inconvenient Past.