Vitaly Ilyich Kandyba is the first art critic of Primorye: materials for biography

Виталий Ильич Кандыба (1943–2016) — первый и на протяжении десятилетий единственный искусствовед в Приморском крае, преподаватель истории искусств в Дальневосточном институте искусств, арт-критик, разносторонне и глубоко погруженный в художественный процесс современного ему регионального искусства. Он не только представлял художников Дальнего Востока на всероссийском и всесоюзном уровне в советскую эпоху, но и в какой-то мере указывал направление развития дальневосточного искусства. Виталий Кандыба — автор книг об истории возникновения и путях развития изобразительного искусства Приморья, Хабаровского края, Амурской области с 1860-х до 1930-х годов, об образовании и деятельности Приморской организации Союза художников России, до сих пор являющихся обязательным источником для искусствоведов, посвятивших себя изучению творчества художников региона. Тем не менее его жизнь и творчество до настоящего времени недостаточно изучены. В статье делается попытка представить очерк творческой биографии В.И. Кандыбы, дать оценку роли и значения его деятельности. Vitaly I. Kandyba (1943–2016) is the first and for decades the only art critic in Primorye, a teacher of art history at the Far Eastern Institute of Arts, versatile and deeply immersed in the artistic process of contemporary regional art. He not only represented artists of the Far East at the All-Russian and All-Union level during the Soviet period, but also to some extent indicated the direction of development of Far Eastern art. Vitaly Kandyba is the author of books about the history of the emergence and development of fine art of Primorye, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Region from the 1860s to the 1930s, about the formation and activities of the Primorye Organization of the Union of Artists of Russia, which are still a mandatory source for art historians who have devoted themselves to studying the creativity of artists of the region. Nevertheless, his life and work have not been sufficiently studied to date. The article attempts to present an outline of the creative biography of V.I. Kandyba, to assess the role and significance of his activities.

The Initial COVID-19 Rāhui: Resilience among social work tauira in Tairāwhiti and Hawke's Bay

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in some significant changes in tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand. This situation report identifies the current situation and the issues and challenges for social work degree students at the Eastern Institute of Technology’s campuses in Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti. The report highlights the resilience of tauira in these challenging times. It also proposes a way forward for future learning that supports tikanga and the diverse needs and realities of tauira.

ON THE GOLD MINERALIZATION IN WEATHERING CRUSTS OF THE RYBACHY SITE (WESTERN SIKHOTE-ALIN)

The author addresses an issue of gold presence in pre-Quaternary crusts of weathering that are widespread in sub-mountain areas of the doming-block geomorphological structures of the Amur Region, the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories along the periphery of large- and medium-sized Cenozoic basins and depressions. For a more detailed mining and geological study and assessment of the gold content of the weathering crusts, we recommended the Rybachy site as one of these objects (insufficiently studied), and the entire Mukhenskaya area as a promising one. These sites are located in the zone of articulation of the eastern side of the Middle Amur Depression with the folded structures of the West Sikhote-Alinsky volcanic belt. The author gives examples of large gold deposits, related to weathering crusts with their brief description (Olympiada, Kuranakh), as well as a brief description of alluvial deposits of weathering crust (sub-basalt cl.Paskhalny, an eluvial-alluvial placer of the Bolotisty Stream). The search work of the DVIMS (Far Eastern Institute of Mineral Raw Materials) in 2002 indicated the potential of weathering crusts within the Rybachy prospect for gold mineralization. This is supported by elevated gold in heavy mineral concentrates from the linear weathering crusts and residual blankets, as well as from non-commercial placers (from 0.01 to 4.0 g/t and higher); the occurrence of fracture zones, brecciation, secondary silicification close by fractures, and abundant Late Cretaceous silicic and intermediate dikes. Zones of hydrothermally altered rocks (silicification, chloritization, sericitization, argillization) are widespread here.

JEWISH AND POLISH DISCOURSES AMONG THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN 1940s – 1980s (BASED ON MYKHAYLO DEMKOVYCH-DOBRIANSKYI ARCHIVE)

The paper describes M. Demkovych-Dobrianskyi’s views on Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Jewish relations in historical perspective and his efforts to reach reconciliation between three nations after World War II. Mykhaylo Demkovych-Dobrianskyi, well-known Ukrainian publicist and historian, edited a few Ukrainian periodicals both in Lviv and during his immigration afterwards. Early in 1930s he published articles in different Western Ukrainian newspapers, in which he underlined the necessity for a constructive dialog with Poles. As a “Problemy” magazine editor in late 1940s, M. Dobrianskyi gave a start to the Ukrainian-Polish discussion in European media. During 1950–1970 he was the editor-in-charge of Ukrainian section of Radio Liberty (Munich). In 1950s he began showing his scientific interest toward the Jewish problematic. M. Dobriansky prepared a manuscript of a monograph research entitled “Jews in Ukraine. 14‒18 century”. The manuscript has never been published. Also the author presented a few articles dedicated to the Jewish-Ukrainian relations and the State of Israel. The interest in the Jewish question and Jewish history was a rare phenomenon among Ukrainian diaspora after World War II and many of M. Dobriansky’s thoughts were confronted by other foreign Ukrainians. During his stay in London M. Dobrianskyi was in contact with famous activists from Poland (A. Hermaszewski, J. Giedroyc, J. Iranek-Ośmiecki etc.) and Polish organizations established in postwar Europe (Eastern Institute “Reduta”, Polish-Ukrainian Society for Promotion of Friendship and Understanding, “Kultura” (Paris-based) magazine etc.). He is also the author of two monograph researches dedicated to Polish-Ukrainian relations “Ukraina i Polska”, “Potocki i Bobrzyński”. In his works M. Dobrianskyi always raised important issues, some of which are still presented in public agenda, especially an idea of Ukrainian-Polish alliance against Russian imperialism.

A DEMONSTRATION BUILDING PROJECT: PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY VALUES

ABSTRACT This article explores the relevance of the demonstration project as a strategy for inspiring contemporary building practice in a process towards sustainable building and as a tool for influencing environmental values in the community. The Log Cabin Project in Napier, New Zealand, is a demonstration facility for displaying sustainable building and living practices situated on the campus of the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT). The project is the refurbishment of an existing structure designed to showcase the sustainable use of material resources, energy and water conservation, and waste-water management. The aim was to investigate the effect visiting a demonstration sustainable building might have on people’s knowledge of and attitude towards sustainability issues, and more specifically whether the methods for making a building more sustainable displayed in the building affected how people thought about their own living environments. In February 2016, five visitor groups, three of EIT students not previously connected with the project, one of EIT staff, and a local environment group were invited to view the project and surveys were conducted both before and after the visit with 126 participants completing both pre- and post-surveys. The research found improved scores after the visit in six of the seven survey measures of environmental knowledge, motives, and intentions, especially in the case of student visitor groups. The results also indicated promising increases in environmental values and concerns for environmental quality after the visit. Correlation between gender and sustainable action was not significant, however there was significant correlation between age and actions intended in the future where engagement was higher among young participant groups. Moreover, although many visitors had previously engaged with at least one pro-environmental activity before visiting the project (90%), 42% made at least one change as a result of the visit. These findings suggest the project was a catalyst for behaviour change. Discussions are centred on the usefulness of demonstration sustainable buildings as tools for fostering environmental protection practices.

DESIGNING INTERACTIVE TOOL ENVIRONMENT FOR INDIVIDUAL WORK ON PHYSICS

Nowadays, students’ individual work is becoming the basis of the educational process which is developing by means of information technologies with a view to reaching informatization. The article provides the review of the works which emphasize the role of information technologies in improving the educational process. An important stage in increasing the quality of education is developing and implementing specialized training software that is an effective means for personalizing of education, increasing motivation and cognitive capacity of the students. There has been presented the operating principle of the developed training and monitoring computer program “Practicum” for independent performance of practical tasks in physics. The program is written in Java in the NetBeans programming environment and runs on Linux, Windows XP and more advanced operating systems. To create graphic data (charts, drawings, formulas for the training tasks) the graphic editor Affinity Designer was used. A user can solve a problem on line, the continuity principle and the main component parts of a traditional workshop being observed. All these allow using the software for training first-year students who do not have any experience of individual learning. There has been presented a block diagram for performing tasks by using a computer program. The detailed sequence of stages in the block diagram has been given. The software has been used in the educational process of the cadets of Far-Eastern Institute of Navigation and Fisheries in the academic year of 2018-2019. The advantages and implementation difficulties of the software have been identified.

N. V. Kyuner (1877-1955): ‘Korea in the Second Half of the 18th Century.’ The Unpublished Typescript

Nikolai Vasilievich Kyuner (1877-1955) was a Russian Orientalist. Having graduated with merit from the St. Petersburg State University, he was sent to the Far East and spent there two years. Having returned, he was appointed head of the department of historical and geographical sciences at the Eastern Institute (Vladivostok) in 1904. Kyuner was one of the first Orientalists to teach courses in history, geography, and ethnography. His works number over 400. The article studies a typescript of his unpublished study ‘Korea in the second half of the 18th century’ now stored in the Archive of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Little known to Russian Koreanists, it nevertheless retains its scientific significance as one of the earliest attempts to study the history of the ‘golden age’ of Korea. The date of the typescript is not known, though analysis of the citations places its completion between 1931 and 1940. The article is to introduce the typescript into scientific use and to verify some facts and terms. N. V. Kuyner’s typescript consists of 8 sections: (1) ‘Introduction. Sources review’; (2) ‘General characteristics of the social development stage of Korea in the second half of the 18th century’; (3) ‘Great impoverishment of the country’; (4) ‘Peasantry’; (5) ‘Cities’; (6) ‘Popular revolts’; (7) ‘Military bureaucratic regime’; (8) ‘The Great Collection of Laws’ (a legal code). There are excerpts from foreign and national publications of the 19th - early 20th century, and there’s also some valuable information on Korean legal codes and encyclopedias of the 18th century, which have not yet been translated into any European languages. The typescript addresses socio-economic situation in Korea in the 18th century; struggles of the court cliques of the 16th-18th centuries and their role in inner and foreign policies of the country; social structure of the society and problems of the peasantry; role of trade in the development of the Middle Korean society; legal proceedings and legislation, etc. One of the first among Russian Koreanistics, N. V. Kyuner examined causes of sasaek (Korean ‘parties’) formation and the following events, linking together unstable situation in the country, national isolation, and execution of Crown Prince Sado (1735-1762).