Nikita Petrov

Nikita Vasilyevich Petrov (Russian: Ники́та Васи́льевич Петро́в, born 31 January 1957, Kiev) is a Russian historian. He works at Memorial, a Russian organization dedicated to studying Soviet political repression. Petrov specializes in Soviet security services.
The book about Nikolai Ezhov written by Nikita Petrov and Marc Jansen is based on the archives made accessible after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Petrov's part was tracking original archival documents, while Jansen worked with published sources.
On March 24, 2005 Nikita Petrov was awarded Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his efforts in uncovering truth about repressions against Polish people during the war.
In 2008 Petrov earned Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam (Instituut voor Cultuur en Geschiedenis, Faculty of Humanities) with the thesis "Сталин и органы НКВД-МГБ в советизации стран Центральной и Восточной Европы. 1945–1953 гг."
Articles by Petrov were published in the Novaya Gazeta.

• Лекция "Мемориала" по истории политических репрессий [Memorial lecture on the history of political repression, in Russian, 149 min] on YouTube
• Общество Мемориал: Семинар «Москва. Места памяти»: Никита Петров [Memorial society: seminar "Moscow. Places of memory": Nikita Petrov, in Russian, 68 min] on YouTube
• Сотрудники карательных органов: от ВЧК до КГБ [Agents of punitive organs: from Cheka to the NKVD, in Russian, 134 min] on YouTube