PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SIBERIAN REGION IN THE ARTICLES OF D. A. KLEMENETS IN THE NEWSPAPER «EASTERN REVIEW»

The article discusses the activities of D. A. Klements - a representative of the revolutionary populism of the 1870s. - as a publicist during his stay in Siberian exile. In the early 1890s he collaborated with the newspaper «Eastern Review», published in Irkutsk. As the head of the East Siberian Division of the Russian Geographical Society, Dmitry Alexandrovich led the scientific department of the newspaper. His articles, feuilletons, book reviews are devoted to the most diverse problems of Siberian life. These are peasant, resettlement issues, the development of mining and gold industry, situation of workers in Siberia, problems of education, health care, the foreign issue, the situation on the Russian-Chinese border, judicial reform in Siberia. While on expeditions, Klements sent travel notes and essays containing information on nature, customs, economy, and culture of the countries bordering Siberia to the «Eastern Review». All the problems he raised were urgent, topical. The articles by D. A. Klemenets reflected his views in the framework of the ideology of revolutionary populism and to some extent contributed to the enlightenment of the education of the Siberian region.

To the History of the RussianJapanese War of 1904–1905: Letters from Major General V. N. Gorbatovsky to Major General A. V. Fok

The letters of the head of the Alekseevsky military school Major General V. N. Gorbatovsky, who commanded the 7th East Siberian Rifle Division during the Russian-Japanese War to the commander of the 4th East Siberian Division Major General A. V. Fok. The letters contain mutual claims and accusations of officers against each other for incompetent actions during the Russian-Japanese War. The conditions of a possible officer duel are discussed.

Guest Editor's Foreword

It is my pleasure to present the Special Issue of Laser and Particle Beams devoted to the 25th anniversary of the Institute of High Current Electronics (IHCE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Division.

Repetitively pulsed high-current accelerators with transformer charging of forming lines

This article describes the principles of operation and the parameters of the SINUS setups designed at the Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Science, over the period from 1990 to 2002. A characteristic feature of accelerators of the SINUS type is the use of coaxial forming lines (in particular, with a spiral central conductor) which are charged by a built-in Tesla transformer to produce the accelerating high-voltage pulses. This ensures a reasonable compactness and long lifetime of the setups.