Sergey Vladimirovich Arzhanukhin (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Аржанухин, born 1 September 1957 in Chelyabinsk) is a Russian philosopher, an expert on the ideology of freemasonry in Russia. He is a professor at the Ural Institute of Management.
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Early life and education
Arzhanukhin was born on 1 September 1957 in Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a closed city where his father worked in the nuclear industry. In 1957, following the Kyshtym disaster, the family were relocated to Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Arzhanukhin graduated from the Ural Federal University in 1980, obtained a candidate degree from Leningrad State University in 1984 and a doctorate from the Ural Federal University in 1996. His doctoral thesis was entitled, "The philosophical and socio-political views of Russian masons in the late 18th to early 19th centuries" (Философские и общественно-политические взгляды русских масонов второй половины XVIII- первой четверти ХIХ вв.).
Work
From 1993 to 1995 he was an associate professor of the history of philosophy at Ural State University. Arzhanukhin's monograph, Philosophical Views of the Russian Masons (1995), was the first treatise on freemasonry in Russia published since 1917. It analysed the views of masons such as M. N. Longinov, A. N. Pypin, S. V. Eshevsky, P. P. Pekarsky, N. S. Tikhonravov, V. O. Kluchevsky and T. O. Sokolovskaya in their historical and sociological context.
After the 1990s, Arzhanukhin's work switched focus to post-industrial issues such as knowledge management and public administration. Since 2000, he has been a professor at the Ural Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.