scholarly journals Scientific and Technical Associations of Tomsk Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 904-920
Author(s):  
Vasiliy P. Zinovyev ◽  
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Sergey G. Sulyak ◽  

This article analyzes the corporate movement in the scientific and technical spheres of Russia’s largest Tomsk province in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. The authors have collected the most comprehensive information available in historiography about the scientific and technical associations of the province. In total, 35 associations have been identified. Tomsk, being a university city, had more scientific and technical associations than other cities — 20. It is determined that the most important factor in the emergence of scientific communities and their activity in the Tomsk province were higher educational institutions: the Imperial University (which opened in 1888); the Institute of Technology (1896), and Siberian Higher courses for women (1910), whose teachers initiated the majority of agricultural, medical, technical, local history, and humanitarian public associations. The second most important factor was the activity of officials of the regional administration concentrated in Tomsk — civil servants, engineers by education, in such spheres as transport, mining, telegraph, excise and others. The third factor in uniting fans of scientific activity was the Siberian group of the State Duma, which initiated the work of the society for the study of Siberia and improvement of its life. The fourth, the most numerous, but weak in scientific terms, group of associations was formed by agricultural specialists: agronomists, animal technicians, beekeepers, gardeners, botanists. The departments of the Imperial Russian geographical society in the Tomsk province were represented by one — the Altai sub-department in Barnaul. The authors conclude that scientific associations were non-political associations whose social significance was small in contrast to the scientific one.

Author(s):  
D.D. Yessimkhanov ◽  
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Zh.S. Begimbayeva ◽  

This article is devoted to the study of the «Works» of the Society for the study of the Kazakh region. The «Society for the study of the Kazakh region» existed as a Scientific Society and was the direct successor of the Orenburg scientific archival commission and the Orenburg department of the Russian geographical society. For the entire period of his scientific activity (1920-1932) The society was engaged in a comprehensive study of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh people. In the «Works» of the Society there are a number of works devoted to the study of geographical features of the regions of Kazakhstan, historical events of the second half of the XVIII-early XIX centuries. The «Works» of the Society for the study of the Kazakh region» made a huge contribution to the development of local history in Kazakhstan.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Силантьева ◽  
Margarita Silanteva

The development of science as a social institution, as well as its interaction with diplomacy, now spawned a number of “hybrid” forms of promoting the unification of the capacity of each of these areas to address specific social and political problems of contemporary culture. Against the background clotting own potential natural science research programs in a number of countries who spoke first among the leaders of the world of science (especially physics) especially interesting are dynamics of the changing role of the scientist in the paradigm of post-nonclassical science. Italy from this point of view is a unique platform where the tradition of classical education, the political process and the modern European strategy received a particular orientation towards the sphere of application of this bias potential in the communications area. And, above all, scientific communication (including, in particular, diplomatic communications). Using biographical method based on the publicly available reference information helps to change perspectives in the analysis of the formation of philosophical and cultural foundations of such type of science diplomacy as “diplomacy of scientists”. The fate of prominent scientists (such as Bruno Pontecorvo) and less well-known figures in science, has been included in the activities of international organizations, there are no less revealing than the fate of those who did not rise to the top of science, becoming invisible “cog” in the wheel of history. Science diplomacy thus can be considered at least in two aspects. On the one hand, as “science for diplomacy” — in terms of general cultural potential of science education and scientific activity itself, deducing scientists to the level of diplomatic work. On the other — as a public diplomacy in the framework of “cultural diplomacy” does not lead to a certain status and rank, but enables to solve issues within the scientific community, is an important group communicator in international relations. The questions are appropriate to consider in the light of the idea of the creative potential of science education, the prospects of its impact on the productivity of thinking in the application of social and cultural practices based, inter alia, on the communicative competence. But even more important is the approach exposing the fundamental importance of education of any type for the formation of a mature personality, capable to realize itself in the solution of various problems with weighty social significance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 148-156
Author(s):  
Konstantinova Natalia N. ◽  

The article deals with scientific and educational activity of Alexander Vasilyevich Konstantinov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, chairman of Transbaikal Branch of the Russian Geographical Society on the occasion of his 65th anniversary. The scientist’s contribution to the historical science of the region, especially to the study of its ancient history is presented and his role in the development of education, including the training of teachers in Transbaikal region is assessed in the paper.


Purpose. Life, scientific and pedagogical way of А. М. Krasnov at the time of the formation of geography was unique, versatile, often contradictory, but clearly creative and innovative approach to everything that was within his interests. Despite some hasty results that harmed his general authority, the figure of A. M. Krasnov – the professor of Imperial Kharkiv University, the founder of Batumi Botanical Garden – is still of interest. Attention has veen paid to the period of his initial formation as a scientist, communication with V. I. Vernadsky, comparison of A. M. Krasnov’s works with works of other researchers, the implementation of the idea of plant introduction. Method. Authentic scientific works of A. M. Krasnov and his contemporaries have been used in the work. Through the use of historical and historiographical sources and comparative analysis there have been revealed those inconsistencies in his works which caused sharp criticism of reviewers. Results. Studies of the work of the first domestic doctor of geographical sciences Andriy Mykolayovych Krasnov have showed his passion for expeditionary research, charisma, thirst for knowledge, love of nature, rich innovative heritage. Attention has been paid to the initial stage of his life, when the interest in scientific, in particular, expeditionary research, which did not leave him during his life, emerged. Based on the study of the relationship between A. M. Krasnov and V. I. Vernadsky, a conclusion about his extraordinary character, ingrained sense of independence, but also passion, excessive emotionality, haste of conclusions has been made. The authors have given the generalized description of the state of the study of geography, which was considered an auxiliary science in the universities of the Russian Empire in the late XIX century, because for A. M. Krasnov it became a source of innovation. The article reveals the extraordinary scientific courage of A. M. Krasnov, who in his doctoral thesis considered the views of famous scientists on the causes of steppe plains. The analysis of А. М. Krasnov’s publications and other sources has proved that he became the creator of constructive geography, combined theoretical classes with practical ones in nature, initiated student scientific expeditions, founded a student geographical society and a geographical office. Possessing artistic and literary talent, he became one of the best promoters of exotic regions, visiting dozens of countries around the world. The authors have also traced the reasons why his scientific works were treated with skepticism and distrust. Scientific novelty and practical significance. Some details of the relationship between A. M. Krasnov and V. I. Vernadsky have been clarified. The reasons that led to the ignoring of the scientific achievement of A. M. Krasnov by contemporaries have been revealed. It is expedient to use these materials while writing the full scientific and pedagogical biography of professor A. M. Krasnov.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
E. S. Zavarina

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), primarily to the interaction between geography and statistics. The author examined in detail the evolution and stages of this interaction, noting that since its foundation, despite all the political storms, the Society has not ceased its activities, preserved continuity and traditions established by its founders.The article opens with the analysis of the historical background and economic prerequisites for the foundation of geographical societies worldwide. The author gives a detailed account of the founding history of the Russian Geographical Society (following in the footsteps of France, Germany and England), focusing on trials and tribulations that accompanied the foundation and naming of the Society. The author provides biographical information on statesmen and scholars who are founders and organizers of the RGS, describes the functions specified in the Charter. One of the four branches in the structure of the RGS was the department «Statistics», which allowed the author in the following sections to consider the interaction between statistics and geography.A separate section of the article addresses the historical relationship between geography and statistics, which has resulted in the development of a methodological and analytical tool for management decision-making on social and economic development of countries and regions. The article also describes a new direction of scientific activity in the world «Regional science», combining a multitude of sciences into its research, including statistics, economic geography and demography. In conclusion, in the twentieth century, statistics and geography were within the same scientific discipline, complementing and enriching one another and giving an impetus to social development.The article concludes with information on the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society in the Russian Federation and prospects for the development of a modern public organization.


Author(s):  
Tuiaara A. Androsova

The article considers the history of foundation and development of scientific libraries in Yakutia. In many ways, the opening of libraries was caused by the scientific interest in Siberia, the emergence of scientific and cultural-educational societies. Libraries strengthened the status of the societies and provided information support for their activities. The first scientific libraries were opened at the Yakut Regional Statistical Committee (1853), the Yakut Regional Museum (1891), the Yakut Department of the Agricultural Society (1899) and the Yakut Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1913).The article notes the contribution of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to the study of history of libraries and librarianship in Siberia, including Yakutia. Particularly, the author describes the influence of political exiles on the formation of libraries and the development of culture in the region. The author focuses on the activities of the Yakut Regional Statistical Committee, which established one of the first special libraries, which later became the main one for scientific libraries. The article considers its activities as an integral part of scientific research in the Eastern Siberia, since the Committee not only collected statistical data on the region, but also supported research institutions, took part in organizing expeditions to study the region, etc. The author describes the role of the Secretary of the Committee, S.F. Saulsky, in the ordering and systematization of the library’s collection, as well as the role of A.I. Popov, state councillor, full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, in the organization of the Yakut Regional Museum. The article reveals the activities of the museum library on selection of books and periodicals of scientific societies, Sibirika, local history literature and manuals for the identification of collections and their systematization. The library kept valuable materials: manuscripts, archival files, geographical maps, route maps, plans of cities, villages, dwellings of foreigners, etc. Academic expeditions of the 18th — first half of the 19th century made an invaluable contribution to the study of Siberia; and the Academy of Sciences gradually transferred the functions of specialized stationary scientific body to the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. The author attempts to trace the origins of the library at the Yakut Branch of the Russian Geographical Society. Attention is paid to the activities of the governor of affairs N.N. Gribanovsky, who identified one of the main directions of the library activity — creation of local history reference and bibliographic apparatus that reflects the literature about Yakutia.The article notes the general trends of scientific libraries: insufficient financing; acquisitions mostly consisted of donations and book exchange; involvement of political exiles in the work; limited access of readers (only for the staff or members of societies). The author reveals the fate of the first scientific libraries, whose collections were distributed among the libraries of Yakutsk and partially preserved in the historically formed library holdings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Natālija Buile ◽  

Since its establishment in 1923, the Latvian Geographical Society (LGB) has been a non-governmental organisation that brings together geographers and people who are interested in research into nature and human geography. Local history and geography has always been an integral part of the teaching process. Today, the knowledge held by members of the society and the research-based educational work carried out by the society about different cities and regions for the improvement of the study content of Latvian geography is diverse. The Latvian Geographical Society cooperates most extensively with local government, organising seminars and conferences in Latvia at the regional level. This cooperation has helped teachers to schedule lessons and excursions outside the classroom.


1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Gunn ◽  
Heather Carpenter ◽  
Paul Left ◽  
Carol Fatialofa

FUTURES is a computer-based careers information system designed primarily for independent use by individuals, although it is equally valuable in guidance sessions led by an adviser. The program, developed over the past four years at Auckland's UNITEC Institute of Technology, is used there, in schools, in private careers consultancies and has been trialled by The New Zealand Employment Service. Surveys of user reactions suggest that FUTURES has assisted large numbers of students and community members to gain a broad perspective on career opportunities, reflect on their own potential and make well informed career decisions. This is achieved by providing an intuitive, graphical interface to a program that supports the structured exploration of a comprehensive information database and promotes reflection on personal prospects. The objective was to develop a significantly different system from the many computer-based products already available in the education market. The novel design philosophy, based on autonomous enquiry and choice, is believed to be largely responsible for the program's success.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Gutsalov

В статье предпринята попытка осмыслить исторический опыт краеведческой деятельности и вовлечения в нее молодежи. Основной акцент сделан на исследование практики регионов Юга России. В XVIII XIX вв. в нашей стране началось формирование понятийного аппарата краеведения, которое тогда обозначалось различными терминами: местнография, отчизноведение, отечествоведение, родиноведение. Особое значение имела деятельность краеведческих организаций в провинции. Южнороссийские краеведческие объединения представляли собой крупнейшие региональные центры распространения научных знаний, формирующие пространство коммуникации интеллигенции. Опыт развития краеведения в дореволюционной России оказался востребованным в дальнейшем. В 1920-х гг. ( золотое десятилетие краеведения ) на Юге, как и в других регионах, возникли специализированные государственные институты наряду с ними продолжалась деятельность общественных организаций. В постсоветский период активизация краеведческого движения происходила на фоне обострения межэтнических отношений и ослабления роли государства. Краеведческие исследования, проводимые вне контекста общероссийской истории, провоцировали мифологизацию образов прошлого, рост сепаратистских настроений в обществе, особенно в молодежной среде. Сформированный в последние годы положительный опыт сочетает разумное участие в краеведческой деятельности государства и его учреждений с развитием общественных инициатив.The article comprehends the historical experience of local history and young peoples involvement in local history activities in order to identify the prospects of its development and growth points. The main emphasis is made on the study of the practice of Southern Russias regions. Local history was conceptually designed in Russia in the 18th 19th centuries. It was designated by various terms: local studies, fatherland studies, national science, motherland studies. The leading actors of local history studies were academic institutions and public research organizations that were massively being established in the 19th century. Their initiatives objectively contributed to the development of traveling, to the engagement of representatives of various professional groups and youth in research, to the introduction of local history subjects into curricula. Public associations were the cells of the civil society formed in the Russian Empire and contributed to the formation of the allRussias and local identities. The activities of local history organizations in provinces was of particular importance. Southern Russias associations such as the Society for the Study of the Kuban Region, the Caucasus Mountain Society, the Stavropol Society for the Study of the NorthCaucasian Region, the Terek Society for the Protection and Preservation of Monuments were major regional distribution centers for the scientific knowledge that formed the communication space for the intelligentsia. Experience in the development of local history in prerevolutionary Russia was in demand later. Specialized state institutions in the South and in other regions were established in the 1920s, the socalled golden decade of local history. Along with them, the activities of public organizations continued. The multiethnic nature of the territory led to the creation of national research institutions, associations and societies. Specialized regional editions (Byulleten SeveroKavkazskogo byuro kraevedeniya Bulletin of the North Caucasian Local History Bureau, etc.) paid special attention to involving youth and students in local history activities. The conflict between the diversity of local history topics and interpretations and the ideological strategy of the state to unify the life of society manifested itself in the 1920s. The dissolution of amateur local history associations in the early 1930s marked the total subordination of local history initiatives to the state. The activation of the local history movement in the postSoviet period took place against the background of the aggravation of interethnic relations and the weakening of the role of the state. Local history studies, which were conducted outside the context of Russian history, provoked the mythologization of images of the past, the growth of separatist sentiments in society, especially among young people. The positive experience of local history, which was formed in recent years, combines the reasonable participation of the state and its institutions with the development of public initiatives. As an example, the article discusses the activity of the historical and geographical society Dzurdzuki (Republic of Ingushetia). The urgent tasks of identifying forgotten names and artifacts, issues related to the return to the modern cultural discourse of the memory of the events of national history make the development of literary, scientific, technical, archaeological, historical, ethnocultural local history relevant. Local history as an important component of patriotic education of young people is directly connected with the solution of topical socioeconomic and cultural problems, with the development of domestic tourism, with the protection of historical and cultural monuments, as well as with cultural branding of territories.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-3.) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Edina Kicsindi

Scientific associations that still exist today were founded all across Europe since the middle of the 19th century. Magyar Földrajzi Társulat (Hungarian Geographical Society; now: Magyar Földrajzi Társaság) was created in 1872, Magyarországi Néprajzi Társaság (Hungarian Ethnographical Society; now: Magyar Néprajzi Társaság) in 1889; but they were different from today’s similar organizations in their basic goals, tasks and their membership as well. These associations were “hybrids” of sorts: they possessed both a scientific side and a science-popularizing side that aimed for a large number of members for financial security. The Hungarian Geographical Society used the huge public interest surrounding the exploration of Africa better: inviting explorers returning from Africa, public readings and regular news based on foreign associations’ publications served undoubtedly the above mentioned popularizing purpose. However the geographers of the early 20th century voiced harsh critiques against the sensationalism of the Hungarian Geographical Society. At the same time Hungarian geography as a science was not lagging behind that of Western Europe at the time of the explorations. 1870-1880 were the decades of Central African exploration, and the main focus of Western European geographical publications and events as well. The official journal of the Hungarian Ethnographical Society, Ethnographia containing much fewer Africa-centric publications is partly due to the Association having been created at the end of the explorations. However, while Földrajzi Közlemények (the official journal of the Hungarian Geographical Society) followed the political movements of Europe in Africa between 1890 and 1900, even though the time of explorations was over, Ethnographia distanced itself from these in favour for more professional content. Földrajzi Közlemények and Hungarian geography in general only followed suit after 1900.


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