The scientific school of Ural internationalists in the post-Soviet period (To the 80th anniversary of Prof. V.I. Mikhailenko)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the scientific work of Valery Ivanovich Mikhailenko, a well-known specialist in the field of international relations, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, and Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation. V. I. Mikhailenko’s entire life is connected with Ural University. The scientist’s development took place in the 1970s–1980s within the framework of the Ural scientific school of specialists in the field of modern and contemporary history of foreign countries and international historians, headed by I. N. Chempalov, a professor at the Ural State University named after A. M. Gorky. In the 1990s, V. I. Mikhailenko headed a scientific school and became the founder of Italian studies at Ural University. The main focus of the article is on the analysis of the scientific issues that V. I. Mikhailenko is developing in the 21st century. In addition to his research on Italy, the scholar added the study of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, of the EU’s foreign regional policy and international relations in the Indo-Pacific region.