IN KEEPING WITH THE BEST TRADITIONS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. ON THE OCCASION OF THE 115th ANNIVERSARY OF MITHT LIBRARY

The article is devoted to some pages in the history of the library of one of Russia’s oldest higher education institutions, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology (MITHT): the organization of the library at the Moscow High Women Courses (1901-1918), the main library of the 2nd MSU (1918-1930), the MITHT scientific and technical library (1930-2015). The today’s library of the MITHT campus of the Moscow Technological University is described. The contribution of outstanding scientists that taught at different times in MITHT to the creation of the specialized university type library is noted. The surnames of the MITHT library managers starting with the Soviet period are given. Some information is published for the first time.

MITHT DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (1941- 1945). THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

The article is dedicated to the memorable tragic date - to the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and to the activity of the Lomonosov Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology in 1941-1942: mobilization, evacuation, renewal of the educational and scientific activity in the conditions of the martial law.

PLOTKIN SEMEN YAKOVLEVICH (TO THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY)

The article tells about life and fate of S.Ya. Plotkin, whose 110-th anniversary of birth was marked on March 2016. He was born in 1906 in Melitopole town (Ukraine). Having graduated at the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology in 1931, he was asked for administration works firstly as the director of the Institute and then as the member of the All-Union Committee for High School problems. During all his life S.Ya. Plotkin successfully combine administrative, scientific, pedagogical and journalistic activities. He was the expert in the problems of hard alloys and powder metallurgy, professor, editor in chief of the journal «History of Natural Sciences and Technique». He was the member of the Journalist’s Union of the USSR, Honorary member of the International Institute for the Sciences of Sintering and Honorary worker of Culture of Russian Federation.

University Library — Booster of Environmental Information

To provide students with the environmental information is possible by the creation of a special resource of environmental information in the Internet. The library complex of the Moscow state academy of fine chemical technology of M.V.Lomonosov is ready to become an experimental platform for approbation of such interauthority resource on ecology and stable development. Authors of the article, experts of academy, write about realization of this idea.