Maksim Makarau

Others:

• 2015–2015 – Belarusian National Technical University, Science and Technology Park “Polytechnic”, Minsk, Belarus; Senior Researcher.
• 2011–2012 – Belarusian State University, Faculty of Economics, Minsk, Belarus; part-time academic lecturer.
• 2021–2022 – National Historical Archive of Belarus, Department of Ancient Acts, Minsk, Belarus; part-time archivist.
• 2022–2023 – National Historical Archive of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus; Deputy Director for Research.
• 2024 – Lew Sapieha Award under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland.

Grants and projects:

• 2014–2018 – Contributor: “Monumenta Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae – Preparation of Unique Sources for the History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Historical Sciences, Toruń, Poland; Project Leader: Prof. Tomasz Kempa; funding: Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Programme for the Development of Humanities (proj. no. 11H13028182).
• 2020–2022 – Contributor: “Anthropology of Roads: Communication on the Russian-Belarusian Border in the 14th-18th Centuries”; Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; funding: Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research (project no. Г20Р-166).
• from 04.2025 – Contributor: „Akta sejmikowe województwa połockiego (XVI-XVIII wiek)”; University of Bialystok; Project Leader: Prof. Karol Łopatecki; funding: Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Programme for the Development of Humanities (proj. no. 0318/NPRH9/H11/88/2022).
• from 10.2025 – Contributor: “What Was a Town in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania? Terminological and Source-related Problems in Research on Urbanization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”; Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences; Project Leader: dr Andrzej Buczyło; funding: Central Project Management Agency (Lithuania) (proj. no. NDICI-GEO-NEAR/2023/444-419-0005).

Monographs:

1. Месцкія ўлады Полацка (1580–1772 гг.): арганізацыя, персанальны склад, Смаленск, 2014.
2. Ад пасада да магдэбугіі: прававое становішча насельніцтва местаў Беларускага Падзвіння ў XIV – першай палове XVII ст., Мінск, 2008.

Source editions:

1. [with: T. Kempa, Dz. Liseichykau, A. Latushkin] Księga magistratu miasta Połocka z 1676 roku, Monumenta Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae, Toruń, 2020.
2. [with: A. Latushkin] Кніга магістрата места Полацка 1727 г. / Księga magistraru miasta Połocka 1727 r., Беласток–Вільня, 2012.

Scientific editorial offices of monographic studies:

1. Р. Пятраўскас: Літоўская знаць у канцы XIV–XV ст.: склад – структура – улада, Смаленск, 2014.

Translation of scientific monographs:

1. С. Александровіч: Картаграфія Вялікага Княства Літоўскага ад XV да сярэдзіны XVIII стагоддзя, Мінск, 2021.

Articles and chapters:

1. [with: M. Volkau] “Віцебскія замкі ў XIV – першай палове XVII ст.: архітэктура і соцыум”, Rocznik Lituanistyczny, 10 (2024), pp. 7–47, DOI: 10.12775/RL.2024.10.01.
2. “Рынкавая плошча Віцебска ў другой палове XVI– пачатку XVIII ст.”, Архіварыус, 20 (2022), pp. 146–166.
3. “Выкананне „падводнай” павіннасці мяшчанскай абшчынай і гарадскія „падводныя” землі Віцебска ў XV–XVII стст.”, Архіварыус, 19 (2021), pp. 190–206.
4. “Ułła w latach 1568–1648: funkcjonowanie miasta przy granicy z Wielkim Księstwem Moskiewskim i po zmianie jej przebiegu”, in: Realne i wyobrażone granice i rubieże Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego, ed. D. Michaluk, Ciechanowiec, 2021, pp. 159–172.
5. [with: M. Volkau] “Інвентар замка і горада Віцебска 1638 года”, Архіварыус, 18 (2020), pp. 28–58.
6. “Witebsk w XVIII wieku: historia i „historycy” (dawne kopiariusze miasta, Kronika Pancyrnego i Awierki)”, Rocznik Lituanistyczny, 4 (2018), pp. 93–117.
7. “Miasta powiatu witebskiego w XVI – 1. połowie XVII w.: sytuacja prawna mieszczan, organizacja władz miejskich”, in: Organizacja władz miejskich na obszarze Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej i na Śląsku w XIII–XVIII w., eds. M. Goliński, K. Mikulski, Między Zachodem a Wschodem VI, Toruń, 2013, pp. 309–348.
8. “Witebskie „prawo miejskie” w XVI wieku”, Zapiski historyczne, 68/1 (2003), pp. 7–17.
9. “Полацкі і віцебскі земскія прывілеі. Да гісторыі стварэння тэкстаў дакументаў”, Białoruskie zeszyty historyczne, 20 (2003), pp. 5–32.