Rudolph Grigorjevich Yanovskiy (Russian: Рудольф Григорьевич Яновский) (born June 16, 1929, in Suzdal, Vladimir Oblast; died January 13, 2010) was a Russian philosopher, professor, Ph.D., corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (from 1991), President of the All-Russian Scientific *ociation of Sociologists and Demographers, full member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the editorial board of the Bezopasnost Evrazii (Eurasia’s Security) journal. He was a top authority on national security, the sociology of social consciousness, the formation, intellectual and moral development of an individual with a special emphasis on women's socio-political status.

From 1991, he was employed by the Ins*ute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences as a top scientist. He was head of the Sociology Department for National Security and Federalism and head of the National Security Centre.

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• Biography of R. Yanovskiy (in Russian)
• The Russian Academy of Sciences
• Obituary (in Russian)