The Photonics Laboratory of the PFRC UB RAS was organized in 2013 on the initiative of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Perm Scientific Center, Academician V.P. Matveyenko and General Director of the Perm Scientific-Production Instrument-Making Company. The foundation of the laboratory was one of the steps in the development of photonics in Perm krai on the basis of a fiber cluster based on industrial enterprises, national universities and the academic center of Perm.

The Department was created on 12 October 2003 - on this day, the official opening of Perm branch of the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the only academic center of political sciences outside Moscow, took place. In 2013 there was the reorganization of academic institutions, and the branch was transformed into the Department for the study of political institutions and processes of Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In February 2002, the on-site Presidium of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences made a decision to open the calving of humanitarian institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Perm. This was done in order to correct the historically established bias in the subject of scientific research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Western Urals. In March 2003, Perm Department of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was opened, in April 2004 it was transformed into Perm Branch of the Institute. In March 2013, Perm branch of the IHA UB RAS was transformed into the Department of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the PSC UB RAS (now PFRC UB RAS).

Board of Trustees of PFRC UB RAS: