Kirill Chunikhin
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Senior Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History
- Kirill Chunikhin has been at HSE University since 2018.

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2020-2021)
Category "New Lecturers" (2019)
Publications13
- Article Chunikhin K. Art and Irreconciliation, or Cubist Ruptures of Soviet Postwar Aesthetics // Russian Review. 2022. Vol. 81. No. 1. P. 66-91. doi
- Article Chunikhin K. Establishing Eye Contact with One Historical Photograph // Technology and Culture. 2022. Vol. 63. No. 3. P. 599-602. doi
- Article Chunikhin K. Risk and Respirators: The Hazardous Trajectories of Soviet Occupational Safety, 1940s–80s // Technology and Culture. 2022. Vol. 63. No. 3. P. 603-633. doi
- Chapter Чунихин К. А. Материалистическая магия, или детская литература как проводник электрификации // В кн.: Электрификация. Свет и ток в искусстве и культуре 1920-1930-х. М. : Музей Москвы, 2022. С. 160-169.
- Chapter Chunikhin K. Spells of Materialist Magic, or Soviet Children and Electric Power, in: The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. University of Toronto Press, 2021. P. 265-298. doi
- Article Chunikhin K. Visual Art Experience during the Coronavirus Pandemic // Social Anthropology. 2020. Vol. 28. No. 2. P. 239-241. doi
- Article Чунихин К. А. Дилеммы Холодной войны в XXI веке / рец. на коллективную монографию "Советская культурная дипломатия в условиях Холодной войны. 1945-1989" // Ab Imperio. 2020. № 1. С. 366-374.
- Article Чунихин К. А. Нестрашные ужасы модернизма: эпизод из истории уродства периода оттепели // Новое литературное обозрение. 2020. № 2. С. 222-236.
- Article Chunikhin K. At Home among Strangers: U.S. Artists, the Soviet Union, and the Myth of Rockwell Kent during the Cold War // Journal of Cold War Studies. 2019. Vol. 21. No. 4. P. 175-207. doi
- Chapter Chunikhin K. “Painting and Sculpture at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959: Defining Success of a Hot Art Show during the Cold War”, in: New Europe College Yearbook: Pontica Magna Program, 2015-2017. Bucharest : NEC, 2018. P. 191-216.
- Chapter Чунихин К. А. «Модерн и постмодерн» Клемента Гринберга, или апология модернизма в эпоху постмодернизма // В кн.: Актуальные проблемы теории и истории искусства III: сборник статей по итогам конференции. СПб. : НП-Принт, 2013. С. 515-520.
- Chapter Чунихин К. А. Американская национальная выставка в Сокольниках и Выставка достижений СССР в Нью-Йорке: история, семантика и кинорепрезентация двух выставок 1959 года // В кн.: Bulletin des DHI Moskau. Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau, 2013. С. 109-127.
- Article Чунихин К. А. СКВОЗЬ ЖЕЛЕЗНЫЙ ЗАНАВЕС: РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОГО ИСКУССТВА США В ЖУРНАЛЕ «АМЕРИКА» В ЭПОХУ ХОЛОДНОЙ ВОЙНЫ // Артикульт. 2012. № 8 (4). С. 20-38.
Courses (2022/2023)
History of Art (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; field of study "46.04.01. История", field of study "46.04.01. История"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- History of Art (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Research Seminar "Research Methodology and Design" (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; field of study "46.04.01. История", field of study "46.04.01. История"; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- The Cold War Beyond Politics (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- History of Art (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- The Cold War Beyond Politics (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- History of Art (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Modern Approaches to the Study of Art (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing in English (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cold War Encounters (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Rethinking the Cold War (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- History (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Sociological Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
"Cold War matters: the invisible economics of things"
On December 16th and 17th, the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History and the History Department hosted the symposium titled "Cold War Matters: (In)Visible Economies of Things." The goal of the symposium was to look at the Cold War from a different angle, one that differed from politics and military. Instead the focus of the symposium was to look at the Cold War through consumer culture, art, science, industry, and the exchange of these things across the permeable Iron Curtain.
«Fighting a New Cult: Thing-Theory of Late Socialism» by Serguei Oushakine!
The second day of the international symposium Cold War matters: The (In) Visible Economies of Things, organized by the Laboratory of Environmental and Technological History, ended with a lecture by Russian-American cultural historian and anthropologist Sergei Alexandrovich Ushakin. Currently, he is an employee of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton University. His professional interests include family and gender identity, the consequences of cultural trauma and the collective memory of the Soviet past.