Eugene Kosminsky

Eugene Kosminsky
Born	2 November 1886  Warsaw (Russian Empire)
Died	24 July 1959  (aged 72) Moscow
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Alma mater	Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University
Occupation	Historian, medievalist and academic
Employer	Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History Communist Academy Moscow State University
Awards	Stalin Prize (1942) Order of Lenin (1945, 1954)

Eugene Alekseyevich Kosminsky (Russian: Евгений Алексеевич Косминский; November 2, 1886 – July 24, 1959) was a Soviet historian and medievalist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1946).^[1][2] He was a professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 1919), first Head of the Department of History of the Middle Ages at MSU Faculty of History from 1934 to 1949.^[3] Laureate of the 1942 Stalin Prize.^[4]