Severyan Dyakonov
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Severyan Dyakonov
@severyandyakonov.bsky.social
Historian of socialist internationalism. USSR-India relations/International Red Cross movement and the Cold War divide/digital humanities for historians. Postdoc/associate researcher.
A little report on my first digitization project. So I completed making pictures of each page of the archive for Ukrainian Red Cross Abroad, 1939-45. You see it all in the box. It took me six working days. Now the new step - text recognition and playing with AI tools for research output.
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Coming soon...
October 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened!
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel!
connecting3worlds.org/african-afro...
July 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How great it was doing my BA in Paris and having all year free access to #Louvre. A new discovery during vacation.
July 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.
July 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
brill.com/view/journal...
June 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our panel on Medical Socialist Entanglements is at 11 15, ground floor 011, #ECAS2025. Bidemi Balogun, Sarah Howard, me.
June 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.
June 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025
June 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ok, on y va. #ECAS #ECAS2025 European Conference on African Studies. Prague.
June 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research!
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
June 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
May 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You can read my blog entry on my current project on hist of Intl Red Cross, 1940s-80s and about amazing archives at CarletonU in Ottawa. Special thanks to the Canadian Network for Humanitarian History for posting! Join their newsletter if interested in these themes.
aidhistory.ca/project-on-t...
May 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Coming soon! My new article “'Resilience, Perseverance, and Sense of Diplomacy:' The Soviet #RedCross in #India, 1954–1963" is accepted by the European Journal for the History of
Medicine and Health.
May 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
1976, the Philippines, Canadian Red Cross records. @carleton.ca library special collection.
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
@carleton.ca allowed me to open a letter sent in 1942. A lady had sent her address for her son if he would search for her.
April 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A map of #Delhi from 1957! There is a pictogram of a girl's face in a nurse hat to indicate a hospital. The Soviet #RedCross facility was in Kalawati Saran, in the very center East side of Connaught Place.
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
American Red Cross WWII era poster and fashion ad at the same time. Lauren Bacall in 1943.
March 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Just a nice stamp. I want to go to India again. Now for their Indian Red Cross archives but it seems it's going to be quite a challenge. I need good contacts! Чтобы пропротежировали меня!
March 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I opened a random page of Petit Robert dictionary in my office. Now I know a new word.
March 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My talk is on Monday, March 31. Online option too, in the link.
Thank you, Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, for posting it!

aidhistory.ca/the-soviet-r...
March 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM