Memorandum (1911) about a well-preserved mammoth from the Russian Arctic donated by Aleksander Stenbock-Fermor to Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
P. Daszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Biographical Information

In 1911 Aleksander Stenbock-Fermor, a Russian aristocrat, offered the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, a well-preserved mammoth from Lyakhowskiy Island, New Siberian Isles. This paper presents a hitherto unpublished memorandum that Stenbock-Fermor addressed to Edmond Perrier, the Museum's director, which related the circumstances surrounding the discovery, removal and transportation of the mammoth from Siberia to St Petersburg and thence to Paris. The paper also presents some biographical information on Konstany Wołłossowicz, who explored Siberia and who organized the expedition to Lyakhowskiy Island in order to bring the mammoth to Europe.

The glorious jubilee of Rujero Sergeevich Gilyarevsky

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
M. Dvorkina
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
Information Sciences

The author offers the brief biographical information on Rujero Sergeevich Gilyarevsky whose 90-th anniversary is celebrated. She reviews the main stages of his academic and pedagogical career, in particular, his scholarly works, his two theses studies (candidate’s and doctoral), numerous publications that have been contributing to the librarianship, library and information sciences. The author emphasizes the scope of Gilyarevsky’s professional interests and retraces expanding of the subject scope of his publications – from catalog structuring (1954) to cloud technologies, information management and scientometrics. Rujero Gilyarevsky analyzes the problems of the libraries (and e-libraries, in particular), their future, professional values of the librarians within the digital communication environment, bibliography as an element of information culture. R. Gilyarevsky has complete mastery of several foreign languages. The selected bibliography of R. Gilarevsky’s publications, including those co-authored by his colleagues, is appended.

Daniel Chambers Macreight FRCP, FLS (1799–1856), a little-known, innovative Irish botanist

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
E. CHARLES NELSON
Keyword(s):  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Biographical Information

Biographical information is provided for Daniel Chambers Macreight. He worked in Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle's herbarium at Geneva during the early 1830s, and later in the decade was prominent in medico-botanical circles in London. Macreight retired in 1840, due to ill-health, and moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands where he died. In 1837, he published an innovative Manual of the British flora which covered both native and cultivated plants. This flora contained two novel features: dichotomous keys were provided to assist students to identify plants, and the category subspecies was employed for taxa within the genera Rosa, Rubus and Salix.

The journalist, the minister and the lost cairnfield of Cathkin Braes

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Jim Mearns
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Modern Work

This paper reviews the use of sources in archaeological research, with particular reference to antiquarian material. Specific attention is paid to antiquarian texts by the Rev. David Ure and Mr Hugh MacDonald relating mainly to the site of Queen Mary's Cairn, Cathkin Braes, south-east of Glasgow. Brief biographical information is provided about the two antiquaries and their different approaches to recording sites discussed. The paper also looks at more recent work on the area and compares the modern approaches to reporting with the antiquarian and notes the uses of antiquarian sources in modern work.

Cryogels as a solution to the issues of environmental management and trunk pipeline operation in Arctic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Lyubov K. Altunina ◽  
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Vladimir P. Burkov ◽  
Petr V. Burkov ◽  
Vitaly Y. Dudnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Soil Microflora ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Thaw Cycle ◽  
Trunk Pipeline ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Spatial Lattice

In the Russian Arctic, a soil cryostructuring technique (i.e. strengthening of soil horizons with cryogel-based composite materials with no excavation of unstable soils required) seems to be showing promise. Experiments have proven that mechanical and thermal insulation properties attributed to cryogels make them appropriate for use in strengthening and thermally insulating the soil, while their structure makes it possible to form a stable vegetation cover. Field experiments have confirmed that cryostructuring efficiently strengthens the soil layer with cryogels stimulating soil microflora. An experience of using cryotropic compositions in the oil and gas sector was described. Notably, cryogels can be used to strengthen unstable soil foundations of trunk pipelines, as well as to bind soil (e.g. on slopes). In addition, cryogels are advised for use in engineering protection to prevent the uneven settlement of a trench base and its creep: thus, cryogels are pumped into the soil of the trench bottom base to create a support system representing a spatial lattice. After the first freeze and thaw cycle, cryotropic material is formed and then increases its strength and elasticity with each new cycle. More broadly, opportunities have been considered regarding cryogels used in various engineering and geological conditions, while taking into account the outcomes of landscape and territorial analysis. It was concluded that cryogel-based composite materials are a promising innovative scientific field expanding technological capabilities for developing and using spaces and resources in the Russian Arctic.

Contributions to the lichen flora of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago (Archangelsk Region, Russian Arctic)

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
I. S. Zhdanov
Keyword(s):  
Lichen Species ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Novaya Zemlya Archipelago ◽  
Ecological Preferences ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lichen Flora

The annotated list of 20 lichen species, based on the author’s collection, is presented. Atla wheldonii is new for Russia, and 16 species are new for Novaya Zemlya Archipelago. Morphology and ecological preferences of the lichen species new for the archipelago are discussed. The history of lichenological investigations in Novaya Zemlya is described.

Arctic projects

Globus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Kulpin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Industry Trends

The article briefly examines a number of Russian Arctic projects, each of which lays down some industry trends, and in General gives an idea of the current and promising directions of economic activity in the region in the form that the initiators see it. Certain generalizations on the nature and direction of projects are made, a number of conclusions are formulated and individual recommendations are given.

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