R/V “VITYAZ” – FLAGMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC FLEET OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF SOVIET OCEAN SCIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-105
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Research Vessel ◽  
Shirshov Institute ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Archives ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

The article is devoted to the first research vessel “Vityaz” of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IO RAS, until 1991 – IO of the USSR Academy of Sciences). The history of the vessel is briefly told, information about “Vityaz” cruises is selectively given, photographs stored in the Museum of the History of IO RAS and documents from the personal archives of IO RAS employees participating in “Vityaz” cruises are given. Some of the photos and documents are published for the first time.

scholarly journals Доклад И.С. Гурвича по этнографии Якутии в архиве Академии наук

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Mikhail Yu. Kiselev,
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Language Literature

The article provides information on the report by I.S. Gurvich “New Data on Ethnography of Northern Yakutia”, stored in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, presented at a meeting of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences on April 26, 1955. The report contains information about expeditions of the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Yakut Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1953-1954. The expeditions aimed to study the composition of the population, life and culture of the peoples living in the basins of the Yana and Lower Lena rivers (Verkhoyansk, Ust-Yansky, Berizinsky, Zhigansky regions). As a result of a wide continuous ethnographic survey, it was possible not only to collect material for an ethnographic map of the northern regions of Yakutia and to further elaborate ethnic statistics for a number of regions, but also to identify areas of settlement of specific ethnic groups. The scientist managed to collect sufficient material to characterize the process of national consolidation, which was extremely intensive in the north of Yakutia. He noted that in reality the historical process in the North was still going on and had its own specificity, and "the task of Soviet historians and ethnographers is to reveal the essence of these processes, since there is still no connected history of the peoples of the North".

scholarly journals Crimean Correspondents of Academician V. I. Vernadsky (1920s–1930s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Nepomnyashchy ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Local History ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Pedagogical Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Written Sources

Referring to a corpus of epistolary sources kept in the personal archival fund of academician V. I. Vernadsky in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (correspondence sent to him from Crimea) and documents from the St Petersburg branch of the RAS Archive and the Department of Written Sources of the State Historical Museum, the author restores some aspects of the daily life of Crimean local history of the 1920s–1930s. Vernadsky’s attention to people and events on the peninsula are connected with a dramatic period of his biography, i.e. his unexpected tenure as rector of the University of Taurida (October 1920 — January 1921). Thanks to the participation of the university in the activities of the Taurida Scientific Association, the academician formed a social circle of scientists from different fields of knowledge in Crimea. The analysis of Vernadsky’s correspondence helps define his range of interests related to Crimean affairs after his departure from Crimea. Vernadsky, not indifferent to the fate of Taurida University (M. V. Frunze Pedagogical Institute) (during the years in question described as Crimean University), was interested in the fate of the prominent professors who he worked with at the university in 1920. Thanks to the Crimean correspondence of A. I. Markevich, the leader of the local history movement, the author has been able to clarify the fate of individual manuscripts by V. I. and G. V. Vernadsky and the history of transfer of funds of the pioneers of comprehensive exploration of the peninsula P. I. Köppen and H. H. Steven to the Archives of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The epistolary heritage of geologists P. A. Dvoichenko and S. P. Popova, Vernadsky’s former colleagues at Taurida University, makes it possible to recreate the pages of the research of the natural productive forces of Crimea carried out in those years. In his correspondence with professors E. V. Petukhov and N. L. Ernst, Vernadsky discussed individual issues that worried scientists.

scholarly journals From the history of the formation of the Far Eastern Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.В. БОГАТОВ
Keyword(s):  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
First Time ◽  
Time Information

Анализируются этапы формирования Дальневосточного научного центра АН СССР. Впервые приводятся сведения о проектировании комплекса зданий Дальневосточного филиала АН СССР во Владивостоке. The stages of formation of the Far Eastern Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences are analyzed. For the first time, information is provided on the design of a complex of buildings for the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok.

Book Collections of European Military Libraries of the 18th — 19th Centuries in the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Vera I. Ryabova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Military Science ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

It is known that the history of book collections of past centuries’ libraries, including military ones, is tragic: for many reasons, they are often either scattered or preserved in small fragments. Today, when libraries intensively work to digitize their holdings and search out historical book collections, it is very important to identify and attribute books from foreign, as well as from Russian military libraries.For the first time, the article describes the work carried out to identify publications of foreign (and partly Russian) military libraries from the rare books collection of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article considers the publications as a source of information about scientific knowledge (military libraries were aimed to acquaint their readers with the basics of military art and the latest achievements in military science). There is shown that the content of such libraries’ collections did not exclude thematic diversity, targeted to comprehensively form the officer’s personality: professional, moral and cultural. The article examines the books of the 18th—19th centuries from military libraries of Europe, currently stored in the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the book marks in them proving the publications’ belonging to specific military libraries. There is highlighted the importance of book marks for the attribution of collections (and libraries) that existed in the past, but turned out to be scattered. The results obtained show that the publications and book marks of military book collections are a strong and reliable source in studying the history of military affairs, military science, and the history of military libraries, and confirm the need for further serious work with the library’s rare book collection.

AT THE ORIGINS OF A NEW OCEAN SCIENCE. ON THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF ACADEMICIAN A.S. MONIN (1921–2007)

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
V. G. Neiman ◽  
N. N. Korchagin ◽  
A. P. Mirabel
Keyword(s):  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Shirshov Institute ◽  
Russian Scientist ◽  
Atmospheric Physics ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
Ocean Sciences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

July 2, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Andrei S. Monin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1972), Director of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1965–1987, a world-famous outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of Earth and Ocean sciences. The article highlights the main fundamental scientific results obtained by this scientist as a result of his many years of research on a wide range of problems of hydromechanics, dynamics of the earth's interior, planetology, atmospheric physics, and first of all, gives a high assessment of his capital contribution to domestic and world oceanology.

scholarly journals DAGHESTAN FEDERAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: THE DIFFICULT AND GLORIOUS WAY OF CREATION (TO THE 75 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION)

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Akai Kurbanovich MURTAZAEV ◽  
Yuliya Mikhaylovna LYSENKO
Keyword(s):  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Activities ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of Formation

The article examines the history of formation and development of the Daghestan base of the USSR Academy of Sciences – the Daghestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences – the Daghestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences – the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Shown are the successes achieved by the team of Daghestan scientists over the years of its existence. The scientific and scientific-organizational activities of the Centre for 75 years have been analyzed.

scholarly journals The history of forming libraries of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Siberian-Far East region and trends of their development in the 2000s

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
E. B. Artemyeva ◽  
N. I. Podkorytova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Far East ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Library System ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the context of the active development of information and communication technologies and a changing society in the XXI century, it becomes relevant to comprehend the experience accumulated by the scientific libraries of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which have experienced serious organizational and structural transformations that affect the formation of their ideological and resource base, the construction of adequate models for the organization, preservation, use and promotion of their resources.  The article objective is to present the history of forming scientific institution libraries in Siberia and the Far East, emerging and developing the library system of a department of the USSR Academy of Sciences – the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences – Russian Academy of Sciences (SB USSR AS and SB RAS) in 1920–2020 to determine further trends in their activities. To carry out the work, the author used such techniques as statistic, system and factor analysis, modeling, forecasting. The main tasks of the library system of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (as well as other libraries of RAS) were to provide information for scientists and specialists of research institutions and preserve the historical, cultural and scientific heritage of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Disintegration of the network connections, the model destruction of centralizing the library community of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which has occurred recent years, required the development of new models of interaction between libraries and adjustments of their functions in the scientific and information space of the region. The authors represents reasoning about the trends in the further development of the libraries of RAS, SB RAS and SPSTL SB RAS as the central library of the system.

scholarly journals Studies of Permafrost in the European Northeast of Russia in the First Half of the 20th Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
Tatyana P. Filippova ◽  
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Nina G. Lisevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

On the basis of a wide range of sources, the research analyzes the history of the study of permafrost in the territory of the European Northeast of Russia in the first half of the 20th century. The documentary sources revealed in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the National Archive of the Komi Republic (Syktyvkar), the Scientific Archive of the Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar), the Vorkuta Museum and Exhibition Center (Vorkuta) are introduced into the scientific use for the first time. The 1920s became the period of the birth of a new scientific direction – permafrostology. This science gave an impetus to the systematic study and development of the North and the Arctic. The beginning of systematic geocryologic studies was connected with the development of the European Northeast in the 1920s–1930s. It has been determined that the USSR Academy of Sciences played the leading role in carrying out these studies: it organized special scientific expeditions for studying the cryolithozone of this region. The main results of the studies and their motives interconnected with the government’s interests in the development of valuable northern mineral resources are shown. The results of the expeditions were conclusions about the possibility of constructing large industrial facilities in the regions of the explored reserves of natural raw material resources. Following scientists’ recommendation, the industrial development of the Pechora coal basin and the colonization of the polar region began. The climatic and natural features of the region demanded stationary scientific research in the field of design and construction. The Vorkuta Research Permafrost Station (VRPS) (1936–1958), created under the supervision of the USSR Academy of Sciences, began to carry out this research. Today, the history of this station’s activities is poorly studied. The article presents the main directions of VRPS research: engineering permafrostology and general issues of permafrost studies. The staff of the station were researchers of the Committee on Permafrost Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences and scientists from among prisoners of GULAG. The role of the staff who made a great contribution to permafrost studies is shown. Under the leadership of the scientists of the station, on the basis of their techniques, large industrial structures of Vorkuta District and Vorkuta, among them the first railroad in the conditions of permafrost, were designed. The conclusion is drawn on the leading role of scientists of the USSR Academy of Sciences in carrying out studies of permafrost soil in the European Northeast in the first half of the 20th century which became the basis in the successful solution of construction problems in the Arctic territory.

scholarly journals Orest A. Scarlato – scientist and organizer of science: on the 100th anniversary of his birth (1920–1994)

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Zoological Institute ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Work ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

В статье описана биография, научная и научно-организационная работа академика Ореста Александровича Скарлато (1920–1994) – зоолога и гидробиолога, специалиста по двустворчатым моллюскам, с 1975 по 1994 гг. возглавлявшего Зоологический институт АН СССР/РАН. Ключевые слова: О.А. Скарлато, биография, история малакологии. The article describes the biography, scientific and scientific-organizational work of the Academician Orest Alexandrovich Scarlato (1920–1994), zoologist and hydrobiologist, specialist in bivalves, who headed the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences from 1975 to 1994. Key words: O.A. Scarlato, biography, history of malacology.

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