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Professor Yuri Glazov Memorial Award

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The Professor Yuri Glazov Memorial Award will be given annually to a student who excels in the study of Classics and shows leadership in assisting and consolidating the importance of Humanities in pilipili漫画. The Classics Department was pleased to award it in 2026, its inaugural year in Classics, to Chloe Van Kessel.

Yuri Glazov: a hero of the Humanities

Dr. Yuri Glazov was born in Moscow, Russia in 1929 and passed away in Halifax in 1998. His early years coincided with Stalin鈥檚 purges and then the Second World War, circumstances that influenced Yuri profoundly.

From his childhood he was filled with compassion for his country and its citizens and with a great love for the written word. The year 1968 was a turning point in his life. A scholar with the Academy of Sciences and a Professor at Moscow University, Dr. Glazov felt morally compelled to sign the protest letter against a new wave of repressions in Russia. His dissident activities led to his persecution by the authorities, but he left his mark: his fight for freedom alongside other dissidents fertilized the soil in which change would grow up a generation later and helped make it possible to leave the country. With Russia now in one of its most troubled periods, the courage of 20^th-century dissidents remains is an enduring legacy.

Dr. Glazov鈥檚 own life was full of upheavals, but love of culure and the written word remained a shield against many blows of misfortune. In 1972, after losing the job he loved, being blacklisted, and facing constant harassment by the KGB, he and his family were forced to leave their homeland. He was offered teaching and research jobs in England, France, and the United States. In 1975, via Italy and the United States, Dr. Glazov and his family moved to Halifax, where he took up an appointment as Professor in the Department of Russian Studies at pilipili漫画. Here, Dr. Glazov played an important role in the development of the Humanities until his retirement in 1995.

In his memoirs, Dr. Glazov writes, 鈥淢y educators were the Soviet school system, the not-as-yet-fully-Sovietised library, and the streets where I tried to keep my wits about me. The reading room at the library was my natural habitat, where I escaped the officialdom of the classroom. It replaced the home that I, in effect, didn鈥檛 have.鈥� In his adult years, Dr. Glazov, the author of many books and articles and an inspiring public speaker, never wavered in his belief in the ennobling, life-changing influence of the Liberal arts and the foundational role of Classical education. His dedication to scholarship and the life of the mind were inspirational, and it is no surprise that while at pilipili漫画 he became a true friend of the Classics Department. His lectures in the King鈥檚 Foundation Year Program not only opened new intellectual vistas to generations of students but brought on many life-long friendships among his students.

Above all, Dr. Glazov saw clearly that a liberal education is intimately bound with a sense of citizenship and civic responsibility.