Doctor, teacher and scientist (in memory of Professor Viktor Pavlovich Baskakov)

On November 11, 2001, at the age of 78, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Viktor Pavlovich Baskakov, suddenly died. It is difficult to get used to the thought and hard to realize that there is no longer this life-loving person among us, a magnificent obstetrician-gynecologist, a prominent scientist and talented teacher.

MAIN WORKS OF PROFESSOR YA. M. MAYER (A REVIEW)

The article is devoted to an overview of the scientific and pedagogical activities of a prominent scientist in the field of engine building and mechanical engineering, one of the organizers of the higher school of Ukraine, a public figure, Professor Ya. M. Mayer. In the biographical work, the first study of complex life path and versatile creative heritage of the last rector of Kharkiv Technological Institute, the founder and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Internal Combustion Engines, director and scientific leader of the Ukrainian Research Aviation Diesel Institute, one of the creators of the famous V-2 diesel engine, one of the heads of the department «Theory of Mechanisms and Machines» Yakov Moiseevich Mayer. Keywords: engine; engineering science; higher technical education; Ya. M. Mayer; KhPI; scientific school; SE “KhKBD”; diesel

Ibn Al-Haytham’s View On Human Soul

Ibn al-Haytham (965-1039) is hitherto known merely as a prominent scientist and mathematician who contributed to the development of science and mathematics. His contribution in philosophy and religious sciences are not exposed yet, therefore some scholars e.g. Muhammad Saud (1990), Saleh Beshara Omar (1977), Roshdi Rashed (2007), and many others, consider him neglecting philosophical and religious issues and regarded him to be a secular-positivist scholar. consider him to be uninterested in philosophical and religious issues. However, study has been done from the his primary works, especially his work namely Kitab Thamarah al-Ḥikmah that still rarely studied by researchers of Ibn al-Haytham thought. The method used in this study is the historical and philosophical methods. The results obtained clearly show that Ibn al-Haytham was not merely scientist and mathematician, he was also a philosopher who had contributed in explaining human psychology which accepted other philosophers. He elucidates the faculties of human soul and explains the relation between soul and the concept of happiness.

PROFESSOR V.D. DIMITRIEV – ORGANIZER OF HISTORICAL EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

The article is dedicated to a prominent scientist, public figure and administrator, Doctor of Historical Sciences Vasily Dimitrievich Dimitriev. The article traces the path of his formation as a researcher, teacher, organizer of historical education and science. The professor’s main biographical data, scientific problems developed by him are analyzed. The stages of his work at the Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature and History and I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University are determined. Thanks to his brilliant analytical abilities, Vasily Dimitrievich became a specialist in Russian history, but also in ethnography, source studies and related scientific disciplines. The scientist created a whole galaxy of followers. He is considered as their teacher by 10 doctors and 40 candidates of sciences, in whose training he participated. Among the students who defended their dissertations in the last years of the scientist’s life were A.A. Chibis on the theme “Monasteries of the Right Bank of the Kazan Land in the Second Half of the XVI – First Half of the XVIII Centuries: Functioning, Land Ownership and Economy” (2011) and A.K. Kuznetsov on the theme “State Archival Service of the Chuvash Republic: the History of Reorganization and Functioning in 1991–2004” (2011). V.D. Dimitriev’s research is a notable help for historians of the neighboring regions of the Middle Volga region. The scientific heritage of Vasily Dimitrievich will be preserved for many years in the works of his followers and students, historical works and collections of documents. Despite a considerable number of published articles devoted to the scientist’s life, work, his research work, the historian’s scientific archive is valuable, which is stored in the Chuvash State Humanitarian Institute, including more than 200 volumes of various documents from the central and regional archives of the country. V.D. Dimitriev’s personal fund was passed by his will to the State Historical Archive of the Chuvash Republic. Thanks to the efforts of the scientist, the collected array of sources will enable followers to open new pages both in the history of the Middle Volga region and in the biography of the scientist.

90 Years Old Academician Felix Ivanovich Ershov

December 10, 2021 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth and 65 years of the scientific activity of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Felix Ivanovich Ershov. F.I. Ershov is a prominent scientist-virologist, popularizer of science, known in our country and abroad, one of the leading experts on the problem of interferon and its inducers. Staff members of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya, friends, colleagues and students sincerely congratulate Felix Ivanovich Ershov on his anniversary and wish him new creative successes, health, long and happy years of life!

The life chronicle of a geologist as a historical and socio-anthropological source

The article deals with the book by I. D. Batieva about the life and work of the prominent scientist-geologist and mineralogist I. V. Belkov (1917–1989), who headed the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1961–1985. The goal is to determine the information capabilities of a chronicle memoir and biographical work. It is a source on the history of geological research and scientific everyday life of the Soviet era and a resource for the anthropology of science and the anthropology of professions. Of particular value are descriptions of field life, official and informal communications in the academic environment, scientific and festive events, and the organization of family life of geologists. The authors conclude that the significance of this book goes beyond the interests of the regional academic corporation. Among other memoir sources, it serves the purposes of self-knowledge, self-identification, and presentation of the professional community. A feature of the source is its complex nature. The book includes many letters of I. V. Belkov. Thanks to this, the facts are presented and evaluated from different points of view, which creates an anthropological perspectiv

TO THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF PROFESSOR R.D. KOS’YAN

On May 20, 2021, the head of the Laboratory of Lithodynamics and Geology of the Southern Department of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, prominent scientist and public figure Kosyan Ruben Derenikovich is 75 years old. R.D. Kosyan is a leading Russian expert in the field of studying the regularities of hydrogenic movements of detrital material in the coastal zone of the sea. He is a participant of many expeditions and thematic conferences, an expert on some major international projects, and lectures in various countries of the world. Under his leadership, a group of models was developed to calculate the long-shore sediment discharge, as well as the associated deformation of the relief in the coastal zone of the sea. R.D. Kosyan was awarded the Order of Courage, as well as the International Medal of the Black Sea Commission for merits in the study of the Black Sea. Congratulations to the wonderful scientist-oceanologist on the solemn date.

Professor A.M. Mazhbits

Notable an obstetrician-gynecologist, urologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Alexander Mazhbits made a great contribution to the history of medicine of the USSR and the annals of the Arkhangelsk state medical Institute (ASMI, now the North-State Medical University (NSMU)), where he headed the Department in 1953-1958. Being the author of over 120 scientific works and 7 books, many scientific inventions and publications on obstetric and gynecological urology and its history, he was a creator of the textbook Operative urogynecology, inventor and prominent scientist. Each operation for a particular urogynecological disease the author described in detail and step by step with the attachment of original visual drawings, photos or radiographs, diagrams of practical activities. Alexander Moiseevich was the first who proposed a new direction for the creation of urogynecology. Not specific urologists, surgeons or obstetricians-gynecologists should deal with this activities, but urogynecologists who consider the female pelvis as a whole. A.M. Mazhbits wrote: Obstetrics-gynecology and female urology are daughter cells of general pelvic surgery, they are twins of different ages, so closely related to each other genetically, clinically and practically that the boundaries between them are often smoothed out.

In memory of Tatiana Andreevna Denisova

On January 7, 2021, the heart of a prominent scientist and talented teacher, doctor of law, professor, member of the Presidium of the NGO "All-Ukrainian Association of Criminal Law" Tatiana Andreevna Denisova stopped beating. The Presidium of the All-Ukrainian Association of Criminal Law expresses its deepest condolences to her husband, Denisov Serhiy Fedorovych, relatives, friends and colleagues.

THE SYSTEM OF SPIRITUAL VALUES IN THE HERITAGE OF ZH. MOLDABEKOV

Current article is devoted to scientific and pedagogical activity of professor, PhD Zh.Moldabekov. In his scientific work were discussed issues such as national innovations in improvement of Kazakhstani patriotism. Professor Zh. Moldabekov made a huge contribution to the education of young people, combining scientific activities with teaching activities. Also, the works of a prominent scientist on the development of a methodological basis for humanities education were widely used in the disclosure of this article.