HYDROBIOLOGIST, POLAR EXPLORER, FIRST DIRECTOR OF IO RAS P.P. SHIRSHOV

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
I. A. Melnikov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Biographical Sketch ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Hydrobiological Research

This article is a short scientific and biographical sketch about petr petrovich shirshov (12/25/1905, Dnepropetrovsk – 02/17/1953, Moscow) – hydrologist, polar explorer, Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1937), Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), Hero of the Soviet Union (1938 ), the first director of the institute of oceanology of the russian academy of sciences (1946 – early 1953). The Institute bears the name of P.P. Shirshov. Of course, in the year of the anniversary, all of us – employees of the Institute of Oceanology – remember with gratitude and respect the name of Petr Petrovich – the largest scientist-researcher, hydrobiologist, organizer of science and an amazing, deep, very courageous, gifted person with a bright and difficult fate. The article presented below is especially valuable because it pays close attention to the work of P.P. Shirshov as a hydrobiologist. His contribution to history as the organizer of the Institute of Oceanology or a polar explorer is widely sanctified in various publications, but his scientific hydrobiological research is much less known, meanwhile it was this direction that interested Petr Shirshov as a scientist more than anything else.

India of 1920s as Seen by Soviet Playwright, Consulting Indologists, Theater Critics

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Igor Yu. Kotin ◽  
Nina G. Krasnodembskaya ◽  
Elena S. Soboleva
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Detailed Picture

The authors of this contribution analyze the circumstances and the history of a popular play that was staged in the Soviet Union in 1927-1928. Titled Jumah Masjid, this play was devoted to the anti-colonial movement in India. A manuscript of the play, not indicating its title and the name of its author, was found in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences among the papers related to A.M. and L.A. Meerwarth, members of the First Russian Expedition to Ceylon and India (1914-1918). Later on, two copies of this play under the title The Jumah Masjid were found in the Russian Archive of Literature and Art and in the Museum of the Tovstonogov Grand Drama Theatre. The authors of this article use archival and published sources to analyze the reasons for writing and staging the play. They consider the image of India as portrayed by a Soviet playwright in conjunction with Indologists that served as consultants, and as seen by theater critics and by the audience (according to what the press reflected). Arguably, the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in 1927 and the VI Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1928 encouraged writing and staging the play. The detailed picture of the anti-colonial struggle in India that the play offered suggests that professional Indologists were consulted. At the same time the play is critical of the non-violent opposition encouraged by Mahatma Gandhi as well as the Indian National Congress and its political wing known as the Swaraj Party. The research demonstrates that the author of the play was G.S. Venetsianov, and his Indologist consultants were Alexander and Liudmila Meerwarth.

V all-Union symposium "synthetic polymers for medical use"

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
State Committee ◽  
Synthetic Polymers ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Ussr State ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Molecular Compounds

(28-31 / X 1981, Riga) The symposium was organized by the Scientific Council "Synthetic polymers for medical purposes" of the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology, the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on high-molecular compounds, the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the problems of biomechanics. Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, the Ministry of Health of the Latvian SSR. The symposium was attended by more than 250 scientists, engineers, representatives of scientific research institutes, SEC, industrial enterprises from 26 cities of the Soviet Union.

scholarly journals Discovering the Arctic: Socio-Humanitarian Studies of USSR Academy of Sciences in Northern Regions of Yakutia in 1980s-1991s

2020 ◽  
pp. 434-448
Author(s):  
A. A. Suleymanov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The North ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
The One ◽  
Clear Shift ◽  
New Research ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

A pioneering attempt in historiography presents a scientific analysis of socio-humanitarian research carried out by employees of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Arctic regions of Yakutia during 1980-1991. Archival materials identified by the author, as well as data from the scientific literature were used for the preparation of the article. The work carried out allowed us to present a characteristic of the development by scientists of a complex of sociocultural, economic, archaeological, historical and anthropological, linguistic and folklore issues. In this regard, the geography of the research is shown, their key actors and main directions are identified. At the same time, an analysis of the most important provisions developed by the participants of the considered research initiatives was carried out. It was established that in the mentioned period, on the one hand, the research was continued, which had been successfully carried out earlier in the Polar Yakutia, and on the other hand, new research trends were making their way. Their stipulation is proved by the development of scientific knowledge and the changing socio-political situation in the Soviet Union. It is concluded that, as a result, interdisciplinary research has been developed, including the widespread use of the natural science arsenal, as well as a clear shift in the paradigm regarding the assessment of Soviet transformations for the destiny of the indigenous peoples of the North.

How I Became a Historian

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. N. Bolkhovitinov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Official Status

One rainy day in the autumn of 1978, when I returned to Moscow from my leave, the Institute's executive secretary for international ties called me to her office and handed me a letter with the invitation for me to write an autobiographical article for the silver jubilee issue of the Journal of American Studies and to tell how I came to be a historian and a specialist on the United States.At first the invitation puzzled me. To be honest, I have never written anything personal and, certainly, nothing autobiographical (except for the formal “autobiography” required in the USSR for official documents). Secondly, my official status and my place in the academic hierarchy could hardly justify my taking up the genre of autobiography. True, addressing their letters to the Institute, foreign correspondents often called me “professor” and even “academician,” but I naturally saw diis just as a polite form of address or as ignorance of our scientific hierarchy. The fact of the matter is that I have never been a professor (there is no such official post at the research institutes in the Soviet Union). As far as the title of “academician” is concerned, the difference between a senior research member of an academic institute and an actual member of the USSr Academy of Sciences (Academician) is the same as between the English “Dear Sir” and the French “Sire.”

scholarly journals Book exhibitions in commemoration of world-famous scientists in the USSR Academy of Sciences: 1943–1944

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
M. V. Levner ◽  
N. A. Vinogradova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Synthetic Methods ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The People ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the World War II, the authors turned to the previously unexplored subject of organizing book exhibitions to the anniversaries and memorable dates of outstanding scientists in the war period. The article is based on the documents found in Moscow and St. Petersburg Archives of the Academy of Sciences considering the aspects of exhibition activity conducted by the librarians of the USSR Academy of Sciences institutions and, particularly, by the Sector of Special Libraries, in the period of the Great Patriotic War. This, practically not considered previously, aspect of the academic libraries work during in the war period was, determines the novelty and relevance of the study. The authors used the general scientific methodology, applying source study, archaeographic and analytical-synthetic methods of work with documents. Even in the ordeals of the severe war years, in spite of inaccessibility of the majority of academic libraries’ collections for searching the editions needed, the librarians did their best to organize book exhibitions in commemoration of the outstanding foreign and Russian scientists, such as I. Newton, N. I. Lobachevsky and others. Science sessions devoted to the occasion where men of science reported about the worldwide known scientist, always preceded the ceremony of the exhibition opening. Organizing book exhibitions was an extremely difficult task due to the evacuation of the most precious books of academic libraries from Moscow, poor communication between academic libraries and the blockade of Leningrad where the oldest academic library situated. All the exhibitions were prepared on the initiative of the Soviet Academy of Sciences top management and under its auspices. Their purpose was to raise the prestige of science in the Soviet Union. All the people (the representatives of the USSR war allies among them) who attended those exhibitions demonstrated great interest and highly appreciated the librarians’ efforts and praised them for their professionalism, dedication and commitment to their work.

Ethnicity and Anthropology in the Soviet Union

1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Gellner
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Interaction History ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Revolution

InThePastDecade, a minor revolution has taken place within Soviet Anthropology. ‘Ethnography’ is one of the recognised disciplines in the Soviet academic world, and corresponds roughly to what in the West is called social anthropology. This revolution has as yet been barely noticed by outside observers (1). Its leader is Yulian Bromley, a very Russian scholar with a very English surname, Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The revolution consists of making ethnography into the studies of ethnos-es, or, in current Western academic jargon, into the study of ethnicity—in other words the study of the phenomena of national feeling, identity, and interaction. History is about chaps, geography is about maps, and ethnography is about ethnoses. What else ? The revolution is supported by arguments weightier than mere verbal suggestiveness; but by way of persuasive consideration, etymology is also invoked.

scholarly journals Richard Pipes: A Life Against the Tide (1923-2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Wojciech Łysek
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article discusses the life and work of the outstanding Sovietologist Richard Pipes, who was born in a Polonized Jewish family in Polish Cieszyn. After an adventurous trip to the United States in 1939 and 1940, he graduated in history from Harvard University and devoted himself to scientific work. For the next half a century, Pipes dealt with the historical and contemporary aspects of Russia. In his numerous publications, including more than 20 monographs, he emphasised that the Soviet Union continued rather than broke with the political practice of tsarist Russia. In his professional work, he thus contested views prevailing among American researchers and society. From the 1960s, Pipes was involved in political activities. He was sceptical about détente, advocating more decisive actions towards the Soviet Union. Between 1981 and 1983, he was the director of the Department of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the National Security Council in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Although retiring in 1996, he did not give up his scientific activity. Pipes died on 17 May 2018; according to his last will, his private book collection of 3,500 volumes has been donated to the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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