scholarly journals “The whole region with people, nature and all the riches...” (Review: Paul Dukes, A History of the Urals: Russia’s Crucible from Early Empire to the Post-Soviet Era [London: Bloomsbury, 2015])

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Natalya Veselkova
Keyword(s):  
The Urals ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals ‘... Her Imperial Majesty Deigned to Declare Herself’: V. N. Tatishchev’s Journal-Book for 1734

2018 ◽  
pp. 882-891
Author(s):  
Mikhail A. Kiselev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
The State ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
State Archive ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important State

This is the first publication of the journal-book kept by famous Russian statesman and historian Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev from February 10 to April 2, 1734, after his appointment director of the Urals state-owned metallurgical plants. This document allows to clarify the circumstances of V. N Tatishchev's appointment to the Urals, including its date. According to the document, it was made on February 10 by oral order of the Empress. Immediately afterwards Vasily Nikitich plunged into planning his trip assisted by cabinet-ministers A. I. Osterman, A. M. Cherkassky, and president of the Commerce-Collegium P. P. Shafirov. The journal-book allows to reconstruct the flow of communication within the bureaucratic elite in 1730s. It also shows that internal documentation (minutes and registers) of the Cabinet of Ministers does not fully reflect its activities. It indicates that the Empress took a most active part and interest in Tatishchev’s appointment and his sending away; she thus sought to keep under her personal control all most important state affairs, including management of metallurgical plants. The document is of interest for studying history of Russian culture of the 18th century, as it contains some information about translator and writer K. A. Kondratovich and historian P. N. Krekshin. It intimates that Kondratovich was exiled to the Urals with Tatishchev by oral order from Anna Ioannovna. To this, there is no other documentary evidence, and therefore, Kondratovich attempted to mystify the circumstances of his exile to the Urals and to bury the fact in oblivion. The document is stored in the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg.

scholarly journals Repressive Policy of the Ussr Towards Certain Peoples in the Years of the Great Patriotic War (in Particular, the Bulgarians in the Urals)

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Kamenskikh Mikhail
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Field Trip ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Forest Exploitation ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The North ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Perm Krai ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to studying Russian Bulgarians living in the Urals in the 1940s with the help of archive materials of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions as well as Perm Krai. During the Great Patriotic War the USS Rcitizens of Bulgarian origin, like many other peoples, were subject to repressions which meant enrollment in labour army and deporting every single Bulgarian of the Crimea. As a result of the semeasures, a significant number of Bulgarians were moved to the territory of the modern Urals. The deported Bulgarians settled in areas of logging (forest exploitation) in the north of Molotov and Sverdlovsk regions, and members of the labour army were employed in the trust organization «Chelyabmetallurgstroi». The Bulgarians were deported along with other peoples of the Crimea. They did not form compact settlement in the new areas but managed to preserve their traditional culture. Some families were even able to organize permanent lodging in the Urals, pursue a career and contribute to the development of the region. The author is convinced that the judicial legal documents kept in archives as well as field trip research results may serve as a significant but not sufficiently appreciated source of investigating the history of deporting Russian Bulgarians. The topicality of the sources grew after the year 2020 when the 75-years’ period of storing documents of the year 1945 expired. Autobiographies, biographic information, interrogation protocols enable to obtain a detailed reconstruction of deportation circumstances and the process of enrollment into labour army, and to see these events through the prism of the repressed people themselves. Researching the history of repression, inparticular – repression of the Bulgarians – has revealed how complex and controversial the policy of the soviet state towards certain peoples during the Great Patriotic War was.

A book review: The History of Ural Literature. 19th century. In 2 vols. Ed. by E. K. Sozina. Moscow, Publishing house JASK, 2021, vol. 1. 664 p.; vol. 2. 778 p.

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-339
Author(s):  
Tatyana I. Rozhkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genre Preferences

The review deals with the second volume of the academic edition “The History of Ural Literature,” prepared by a group of scholars from the Ural-Siberian scientific community. The merit of the issue is presenting the literary process and the Ural writers’ community as a complex sociocultural phenomenon aimed at work professionalization and connected with the history of the region’s self-determination. When presenting specific names, the authors of the project followed the principle description tasks: to show the connection of the writer’s biography and work with the territory, to emphasize how the works are filled with impressions of Ural life, to draw attention to the writer’s involvement in local cultural communities and support from leading literary figures and critics. Since the book covers a wide range of authors, a number of conclusions significant for the regional literary process understanding can be drawn. Biography materials allow speaking of a variety of social segments of people involved in writing: from base estates and plant workers to noble and intellectual people. Not everyone was ready for professional literary activity, but all quite openly demonstrated their reading tastes. By the end of the century, the cultural and aesthetic commonality of the Ural literature is defined. Its specific writing style becomes distinctive, with a tendency toward documentality, autobiography, and ethnography. Genre preferences become apparent. Genre preferences become apparent. Most importantly, the names appear, starting to be identified by critics as “the Urals writer.”

scholarly journals Woman-scientist, paleontologist

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
O. V. Martirosyan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Russian Platform ◽  
Woman Scientist ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Northern Urals ◽  
Birthday Anniversary ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the scientific activities of one of the first Russian women geologists, paleontologists — Tatyana Alekseevna Dobrolyubova in connection with the anniversary date — the 130th birthday anniversary. A whole stage in the history of geological studies of the natural resources of the Northern Urals, as well as paleontological studies of the Carboniferous and Permian corals of the Russian Platform and the Urals, are associated with her name. The most important directions of her research and the most significant achievements, as well as the stages of her life, are briefly highlighted.

scholarly journals IN THE WAKE OF PUGACHEV’S REBELLION: EXPERIENCE IN ORAL HISTORY

2016 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
N. V. Shevtsov
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
The Urals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Vast Area

Grand uprising led by Pugachev seized a vast area from the middle reaches of the Volga, the Urals and the Kazakh steppes. Thousands of people from different classes and nationalities joined rebellious Ural Cossacks in 1773. From the beginning, the uprising was of antimonarchic, not noble character, although its leader, and posed as a resurrected Emperor Peter III. During two years since 1773 the rebels were holding at bay the entire Russian Empire, becoming a real threat to the power of Catherine II. Pugachev's Rebellion is a subject of numerous works of Russian historians, writers, articles, research journalists and ethnographers. But perhaps the most famous "History of Pugachev" is written by a classic of Russian literature Alexander Pushkin. His work became one of the first (if not the first) serious historical studies on Pugachev's Rebellion. The historical science of XIX century, especially its first half, doesn't know many writings on the uprising. The fact that historians did not dare to write about Pugachev and the events that took place in 1773-1775 years, as Catherine II prohibited even mention the uprising. The decree of the senate ordered even rename the place, where the described events took place, for example, the Yaik river and Yaitsk town in order "to bring all that has happened to eternal oblivion." The famous historian S.M. Solovyov did not have advance to write about Pugachev. Death interrupted his work when his 29 volume ws in process, which he planned to complete with the execution of the leader of the uprising. Russian historian V.O. Klyuchevskii did not write many pages devoted to Pugachev as well. The author of this article visited the places, where the events took place, and repeated the journey of A.S. Pushkin, who visited the region in 60years after Pugachev's Rebellion. By talking with the locals, visiting ancient towns and villages, I sought to find out what has now preserved since ancient times, whether it is possible today to see evidence of the uprising or the famous trip of A.S. Pushkin.

scholarly journals Chelyabinsk Historian V.E. Chetin: Studying the History of the Mining Urals in the Context of Soviet Historiography during the 1950s–1970s

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
N.N. Alevras ◽  
◽  
S.D. Batishchev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Mining Works ◽  
Soviet Historiography

The dissertation projects of Vasilii Egorovich Chetin, a Chelyabinsk historian, on the history of mining works in the pre-revolutionary Urals were analyzed. His versions of the history of the Ural workers and labor movement were interpreted with regard to the historiographic context of his research activity during the 1950s–1970s. The prototype of a provincial historian committed to the orthodox Marxist-Leninist methodology as exemplified by V.E. Chetin’s personality was identified. General trends in the development of Ural historiography over the period when V.E. Chetin worked on his dissertations were shown. He defended his candidate’s dissertation in 1953. It was devoted to the labor movement in the Perm governorate after the reform of 1861, one of the popular problems of Ural historiography. The doctoral dissertation that ensued was drafted and should have been defended by the end of 1970. It continued to ponder the same problem within the entire region of mining works in the Urals and covered the historical period up to the early 20th century. Here, an attempt was made to take into account a whole variety of factors, including the secondary ones, influencing the situation of Ural workers. It was concluded that the scope of tasks set by V.E. Chetin in the doctoral dissertation made it impossible for him to meet the deadline.

D. Smyshlyaev — Ethnographer, Publisher, Bibliographer

2009 ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Anna V. Kostitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Regional Study ◽  
The Urals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Perm Region

History of Perm that in 2008 celebrated the 285th anniversary of its foundation counts many great names. Among them is Dmitry Smyshlyaev (1828-1893), talented researcher of the region, publisher and bibliographer. His activity is connected with the creation of regional study movement in the Urals. Editorial and authorial works of Smyshlyaev became bibliographic rarity and still remain the important sources for studying the history of Perm region.

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