Aleksandr Kapto

Aleksandr Semenovich Kapto
Kapto in 2014
Born	(1933-04-14)April 14, 1933 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	April 19, 2020(2020-04-19) (aged 87)
Occupation	Diplomat, author

Aleksandr Semenovich Kapto (April 14, 1933 – April 19, 2020) was a Russian and Ukrainian sociologist, political scientist and a diplomat, journalist and politician. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. In 2008 he was head of the UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).^[1]

Education[]

Kapto graduated from Dnipropetrovsk University in 1957 with a philosophy degree, studying the problems of war and peace, international relations, political sociology, sociology of morality and education, social activity of youths, and professional ethics.

Career[]

In addition to his duties with UNESCO, Kapto served as Chairman of the Expert Council under the Top Certifying Commission for Political Science; Chairman of the Council for Defending a Doctoral Thesis under the Institute of Socio-Political Research (ISPR RAS) (sociology of spiritual life and management); Vice-President of the Academy of Social Sciences; and was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Political Science. He was a Soviet Ambassador to Cuba from 1985-9, and the last Soviet and first Russian Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Writing career[]

Kapto was a member of the Union of Russian Writers. In 1971 and 1974 he received a first-degree diploma certificate for winning the All-Union Competition for the best popular science works.

Awards and prizes[]

• 3 Orders of the Red Banner
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Cuban Order of Solidarity
• S. Vavilov Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Spreading Scientific Knowledge, Enlightened and Humanitarian Activities
• Honorary Citizen of Denver, Colorado

Bibliography[]

• Social activity as a moral trait of an individual. Kiev, 1968.
• Public activity of youths. Moscow, 1971.
• Class education: methodology, theory, practice. M., 1985.
• Political memoirs. Moscow, 1996.
• Nobel peacemakers. Moscow, 2002.
• Encyclopedia of the world. Moscow, 2002 and 2005.
• From the bellicose culture to the culture of peace. Moscow, 2002.

See also[]

• Institute of Socio-Political Research

References and sources[]

• A. Kapto’s biography (in Russian)

External links[]

• Official Web site of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• The official web site of the Institute of Socio-Political Research
• The UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research