The Department of Finance was created on the basis of the Department of Financial Markets which was founded in 1998 and is the oldest in the campus. The staff have a broad spectrum of research interests including problems of corporate finance, financial markets and institutions, risk, corporate tax planning, accounting and audits and innovation.
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On 9 January 2026, Boris Lodiagin and Olga Alekseeva, lecturers of the Department of Finance at HSE University – Saint Petersburg, delivered an online guest lecture for undergraduate students in management and business at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK, India). The session was held at the invitation of Vipin P. Veetil (Chair Assistant Professor of Economics) and was titled “History and Evolution of the Russian Financial System: From the Tsarist Period to Today’s Sanctions-Era Reality.”
Over the course of the two-hour lecture, students traced the evolution of Russia’s financial system from the Tsarist era to the present day, focusing on key institutional turning points, the logic behind the banking sector’s development, and the formation of market infrastructure. The speakers also discussed the current structure of the financial system, as well as how the COVID-19 shock and subsequent disruptions affected markets, economic behaviour, and policy responses, shaping the environment in which financial institutions and firms operate today.