scholarly journals Moscow University’s field station in the Khibiny Mountains, Russian Arctic: A 70-year history to the present day

Polar Record ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Vikulina ◽  
T.V. Vashchalova ◽  
O.V. Tutubalina ◽  
W.G. Rees ◽  
Y.V. Zaika

Abstract The Khibiny Educational and Scientific Station (KESS) of the Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), was founded in 1948. It is one of the oldest stations of the MSU Faculty of Geography and the only one located north of the Arctic Circle. It is also one of the oldest continuously operating arctic field stations in the world. For more than 70 years, the research station has fostered scientific and international collaboration. Science and education carried out at the station have always gone hand in hand and the research results have been both theoretical and practical. Many generations of Russian geographers owe their successful careers to the research activities at the Khibiny station. Nowadays, it is one of the two major student training bases for the Faculty of Geography as well as a focal point of many national and international research projects, including the International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT) network.

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 07008
Author(s):  
Victoria Kolupaeva ◽  
Anna Kokoreva ◽  
Tatyana Bondareva

Metribuzin is a mobile pesticide widely used in agriculture and has great potential for soil migration. In addition, weather and soil conditions in the non-chernozem zone of Russia contribute to the movement of pesticides in the soil. The behaviour of metribuzin was studied in a lysimetric experiment. The experiment was carried out at the lysimeters of the Soil Research Station of Moscow State University from June 2016 to December 2017. Mertribuzin was applied in lysimeters in maximum recommended and eightfold rates two years in a row. Used in the recommended rate, metribuzin was detected in the samples of lysimetric water once at a concentration of 14 µg L-1 (6% of the samples analyzed). Applied in the eightfold rate, it was detected in 39.5% of samples, the maximum concentration was 180 µg L-1. The experiment revealed that metribuzin is able to leach bottom of the soil profile. The concentration of metribuzin found in the variant with the recommended rate is lower than the hygienic index adopted in Russian Federation for metribuzin, which indicates that the risk of metribuzin application for people is low.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria N. Kolupaeva ◽  
Ann А. Kokoreva ◽  
Alexandra A. Belik ◽  
Pavel A. Pletenev

AbstractThe behaviour of cyantraniliprole was studied in a lysimetric experiment. The experiment was carried out at the lysimeters of the Soil Research Station of Moscow State University from June 2015 to December 2018. The soil of lysimeter is soddy-podzolic silt loam. The insecticide was applied at the recommended and tenfold rates in 2015 and 2016. The maximum depth of migration of cyantraniliprole in the soil profile was 35 cm in October 2015 and 40 cm in October 2016. Cyantraniliprole was found in the leachate of lysimeter water 2 weeks after its first application in 2015 and continued until the end of 2018, that is, 2 years after the last treatment. Cyantraniliprole was found in most of the water samples analyzed. The maximum concentrations of cyantraniliprole in the leachate were 12.5 and 2.6 μg L−1 in lysimeters with tenfold and recommended doses, with mean values of - 1.7 and 0.6 μg L−1, respectively.


Author(s):  
Valery S. Sekovanov

The article describes the creative activity of the outstanding scientist and pedagogue Nikolay Khristovich Rozov. The content of the work is based on personal memories, impressions of the author, reports of people who knew Nikolay Rozov and material used from open sources. There was a wide range of activities of Nikolay Rozov in science and education. The significant contribution of Nikolay Rozov in mathematics, pedagogy and methods of teaching mathematics, his outstanding organisational skills, which manifested themselves when opening mathematical schools for gifted children, under the leadership of the Institute of Pedagogic Education at Lomonosov Moscow State University, work in various publishing houses. The article tells about the help of Nikolay Rozov to classical universities in Russia to open specialties related to the teaching profession. The innovative ideas of the scientist about changing the content of the mathematics course in secondary school, teaching mathematics at the university and school are noted. The journalistic works of Nikolay Rozov, dedicated to fellow mathematicians, noted the scientist's gift as an orator and an excellent lecturer.


2020 ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
Evgeny A. Mikhailov ◽  
Evgeny V. Shirokov

The article presents the experience of organizing research activities of schoolchildren at the Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. The subject matter of the works is connected with different sections of nuclear physics, the study of which is especially important in secondary school. In the process of preparing for their implementation schoolchildren listen to a short course devoted to computer methods in physics. They then develop programmes to simulate various nuclear phenomena. A laboratory experiment is then conducted to check and correct the results of the simulation. The article presents two examples of works, the authors of which have successfully performed at various scientific and practical conferences for schoolchildren. The first one is related to the absorption of gamma radiation and the second to the study of cosmic radiation background. It is especially important to note that these works were conducted with pupils of Lyceum № 87 of Nizhny Novgorod in a partly remote format. This suggests that such work can be successfully performed by schoolchildren living in other cities and not having the opportunity to visit the laboratory frequently.


Upravlenie ◽  
10.12737/2813 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Омельченко ◽  
Nikolay Omyelchyenko

The paper concerns the history, scientific groundwork, mission and major development goals of the school of thought “Research of Public Policy and Current Public Administration Problems”, emerged on the basis of Administering sub-department of Public administration and political technologies at the State University of Management. Intellectual capital of the department’s personnel is characterized as the main contributor to the leading position, gained by the Department in the said field and the source of objective prerequisites for formalization of this school of thought. The author, professor N.A. Omelchenko, Doctor of Sciences (History) and the head of the Department of Public administration and political technologies — is hopeful, that scientific results produced by this school of thought would bу demanded in the public administration realm and help encourage research activities in the State University of Management and integration of science and education.


Author(s):  
O. R. Khromov

The article is devoted to the 75th Birth Anniversary and to the 50th Anniversary of Pedagogical and Research Activities of S. Garanina, the famous Russian bibliologist, Professor of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. The author summarizes the biography of the outstanding scholar and educator S. Garanina.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
V.V. Rubtsov ◽  
M. Cole ◽  
J.V. Wertsch ◽  
A.G. Asmolov ◽  
V.T. Kudryavcev ◽  
...  

On May 25, 2018 the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education hosted a methodological seminar “Human Development and the Creative Potential of Culture” (supervised by V.V. Rubtsov and B.D. Elkonin) that was dedicated to the 80th birthday of the renowned American psychologist professor Michael Cole, the disciple of A.R. Luria and the successor of the cultural-historical and activity approaches in psychology. Michael Cole has and continues to put a lot of effort into the internationalization and development of these acknowledged Russian approaches all over the world. The seminar was organized by the Cultural-Historical Psychology journal and the International UNESCO Chair of Cultural-Historical Psychology of Childhood (MSUPE). The issues discussed in the seminar included: 1. Understanding culture: from the environment to the origins of human development; 2. Cultural-historical psychology: the language of mutual understanding and the creative tool in science and education; 3. The diversity of cultural mediation of human activity in the modern world; 4. Cultural-activity approach as an interdisciplinary project; 5. Psychology and sociocultural practices of human development; 6. From joint activity towards co-creation of culture; 7. Imagination: the ‘third’ eye of culture. Among the participants of the seminar were Russian researchers V.V. Rubtsov, A.A. Margolis, A.G. Asmolov, V.T. Kudryavtsev, N.N. Nechaev, V.A. Lektorsky, T.V. Akhutina, Zh.M. Glozman, M.V. Falikman, B.D. Elkonin, V.A. Guruzhapov as well as M. Cole himself and his friend and colleague J.Wertsch (both participating online). The paper presents the full text of the discussion.


Author(s):  
Marina F. Dorokhova

The species composition of soil algae and cyanobacteria in landscapes with different types of land use was studied for the first time on the territory of the Lomonosov Moscow state University educational and scientific station (Kaluga region). 125 species and intraspecific taxa of algae and 35 species of cyanobacteria were found. The specificity of algal-cyanobacterial communities in soils under different types of forest, in clearings of different ages and on arable land was revealed. In a field experiment, the effect of hydrocarbon fuel contamination (gasoline, kerosene, and diesel fuel) on the algal-cyanobacterial communities of sod-podzolic soils was studied. It is shown that with the same primary load of pollutants, their toxicity to algae and cyanobacteria and the rate of recovery of algal-cyanobacterial communities depends on the type of land use of the territory, and with the same type of land use – on the water regime of soils. In the same soil, the specific of the pollutant also affects the recovery of algal-cyanobacterial communities. Data on the composition of algae and cyanobacteria successfully complement information about the biological activity of soils obtained by other methods.


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