Mark Kupovetsky, an important historian studying the demographics of ethnicities and historian, the Executive Director of the Russian State University for the Humanities Research Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies, is celebrating his 60th anniversary.

Kupovetsky graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. He participated in the Independent Jewish Movements and was one of the founders of the Jewish Historic and Ethnographic Commission in Moscow (1981), the Jewish Historical Society (1987), and the Hebrew University in Moscow (1991). He has been the Director of the Science Center of the Association of Jewish Studies and Jewish Culture since 1990, and the supervisor of studies of the “Jewish History and Philology” specialization at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Since 1994, he has been the dean of the Faculty of History of the Hebrew University in Moscow. He is the author of over 40 academic publications about the demography and ethnic history of Russian Jewry. He is the member of the Sefer Center Academic Board, and a senior lecturer of the Russian-American Academic and Research Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Secretary General Michael Chlenov congratulated Mark Kupovetsky on behalf of the EAJC. The letter reads as follows: “You were always a true scholar among te activists of the Independent Jewish Movement, and a true activist among the Jewish scholars of modern Russia. This is what we have always valued - and still value - in you; this is what we love you for. Today you are busy with a most noble task: transferring your knowledge to new generations of those who care about Jewish studies. You have just passed the halfway mark of the lifespan which the Almighty grants to the best sons of the Jewish people - to whom you, of course, belong. This means that you have many more years of active life ahead of you, many new studies and discoveries, and more and more work for the good of the Jewish community.”