scholarly journals Central European Conference of Historical Geographers, Historical Geography Research Centre, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague, Section for Historical Geography and Environmental History of the Czech Geographical Society, Prag, Češka, 31. kolovoza – 2. rujna 2016. 

Geoadria ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
Branimir Vukosav
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Conference ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Czech Academy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

scholarly journals Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the Days of Great Trials: 1941-1942

2020 ◽  
pp. 719-735
Author(s):  
Simon S. Ilizarov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This paper reviews the work of the Archive of the Soviet Academy of Sciences during the blockade of Leningrad in 1941–42. It is based on the archive series that contains a report detailing the work of the 22 Academy’s institutions in Leningrad (11 scientific research institutes, 3 museums, the Archive, the Library, the Geographical Society, etc.) over 7 months of 1942 and prepared for the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It lists Archive’s staff members who died or were evacuated during this period. It shows that, even in the hardest days under the blockade, the work in the Archive never stopped. An important part of this work was associated with the activities of the Commission for the History of the USSR Academy of Sciences (KIAN). The paper reviews the history of the KIAN creation under the auspices of the Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad in 1938, soon after forcible liquidation of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology and tragic death of its first director, Academician N.I. Bukharin. A number of outstanding historians-archivists and historians of science – A.I. Andreyev, I.I. Lyubimenko, L.B. Modzalevskii, and others – participated in the work of the KIAN headed by Academician S. I. Vavilov and his deputy, Director of the Archive, G.A. Knyazev. The research and archaeographic work of the Archive’s staff was associated with preparation of publications for the “Scientific Heritage” series (it was established in 1940 upon initiative of the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences V. L. Komarov with active participation of the eminent historian of science T. I. Rainov). During that period, the editorial work on the second volume of the “Reviews of Archive Materials” (Obozreniya arkhivnykh materialov) was completed and V.F. Gnucheva completed her unique history-of-science book “The Geographical Department of the 18th century Academy of Sciences.” Both books were published after the war, in 1946. The main result of the work of the few Archive’s staff members was safeguarding the precious historical materials and searching for, concentrating, and preserving documentation of evacuated institutions and individual scientists, some of whom were killed by the cold, famine, and diseases. The paper contains data from official reports: quantitative data concerning documents taken into the Archive’s custody in 1941 and in 1942 and processed and described series; it names institutions and scholars, whose documents ended up in the Archive of the Academy of Sciences. By July 31, 1942, the number of fonds in the Archive reached 740. Reports of such Academy institutions as the Institute of Oriental Studies, the N.Ya. Marr Institute for the History of Material Culture, the Institute of Literature, the All-Union Geographical Society, and others allow the scholars to analyze their work associated with the preservation of books and archival fonds and collections. The paper is based on documentary sources that are being introduced into scientific use for the first time.

scholarly journals From the history of the creation of “Antiquities of Herodotus Scythia”: collaboration of the IAK with F. K. Brun in the 1860s

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 452-461
Author(s):  
I. Sapozhnikov ◽  
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M. Kashuba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Origin ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Successful Collaboration

This paper is devoted to the brief but successful collaboration in the 1860s between the Imperial Archaeo- logical Commission (IAC) and the Odessa scholar of German origin F. K. Brun (Philipp Jakob Bruun) (1804–1880). This episode is recorded in a dossier kept at the Manuscript Department of the Scientific Archives of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The scientist was commissioned with writing the foreword to the then expected publication of “Antiquities of Herodotus’ Scythia”. He prepared the work basing on materials from two trips across the region: it was published in 1872 in the form of an appendix with supplements about the description of Darius’ campaign against the Scythians and a map of Herodotus’ Scythia. The article publishes a report by F. K. Brun on the surveys of 1864– 1865 in the Northern Black Sea region and his propositions of 1869 to IAC concerning the expansion of researches to the entire littoral of the Black Sea. The facts presented show F. K. Brun as an expert on historical geography and an archaeologist.

Scientific Libraries of Yakutia in the Pre-Revolutionary Period (1853—1917)

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-308
Author(s):  
Tuiaara A. Androsova
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Libraries ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Geographical Maps ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article considers the history of foundation and development of scientific libraries in Yakutia. In many ways, the opening of libraries was caused by the scientific interest in Siberia, the emergence of scientific and cultural-educational societies. Libraries strengthened the status of the societies and provided information support for their activities. The first scientific libraries were opened at the Yakut Regional Statistical Committee (1853), the Yakut Regional Museum (1891), the Yakut Department of the Agricultural Society (1899) and the Yakut Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1913).The article notes the contribution of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to the study of history of libraries and librarianship in Siberia, including Yakutia. Particularly, the author describes the influence of political exiles on the formation of libraries and the development of culture in the region. The author focuses on the activities of the Yakut Regional Statistical Committee, which established one of the first special libraries, which later became the main one for scientific libraries. The article considers its activities as an integral part of scientific research in the Eastern Siberia, since the Committee not only collected statistical data on the region, but also supported research institutions, took part in organizing expeditions to study the region, etc. The author describes the role of the Secretary of the Committee, S.F. Saulsky, in the ordering and systematization of the library’s collection, as well as the role of A.I. Popov, state councillor, full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, in the organization of the Yakut Regional Museum. The article reveals the activities of the museum library on selection of books and periodicals of scientific societies, Sibirika, local history literature and manuals for the identification of collections and their systematization. The library kept valuable materials: manuscripts, archival files, geographical maps, route maps, plans of cities, villages, dwellings of foreigners, etc. Academic expeditions of the 18th — first half of the 19th century made an invaluable contribution to the study of Siberia; and the Academy of Sciences gradually transferred the functions of specialized stationary scientific body to the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. The author attempts to trace the origins of the library at the Yakut Branch of the Russian Geographical Society. Attention is paid to the activities of the governor of affairs N.N. Gribanovsky, who identified one of the main directions of the library activity — creation of local history reference and bibliographic apparatus that reflects the literature about Yakutia.The article notes the general trends of scientific libraries: insufficient financing; acquisitions mostly consisted of donations and book exchange; involvement of political exiles in the work; limited access of readers (only for the staff or members of societies). The author reveals the fate of the first scientific libraries, whose collections were distributed among the libraries of Yakutsk and partially preserved in the historically formed library holdings.

From the History of Scientific Communications of the Russian Emigration: Egyptologist Gregory Lukyanov and the Kondakov Archaeological Institute in Prague

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6 (104)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Czech Academy ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Translation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

The article deals with the history of relations between Gregory Lukyanov, Russian Egyptologist and antiquarian, and his colleagues from the Kondakov Archaeological Institute in Prague in the 1930s. The article is based on materials from Czech archives (Archives of the Art History Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the collection of manuscripts of the Slavonic Library in Prague). The author of this work reveals the unknown page of the history of scientific communications in the midst of the Russian emigration, shows the existence of intellectual contacts between the «Russian Czechoslovakia» and «Russian Egypt». The article is devoted to the analysis of the internal contacts of Gregory Lukyanov, the motives of his professional activity abroad, the basic directions of his cooperation with colleagues from Prague and attempts to create there a collection of Coptic textiles and to publish its catalogue, which unfortunately failed. For the first time, the history of translation of «The Poem of Pentawer» by Lukyanov and attempts of publication of its Russian translation have been described. The author reveals the various contradictions between Gregory Lukyanov and his Prague colleagues that arose in the process of scientific communication.

scholarly journals The role of geography in sustainable development

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract China has achieved unprecedented economic growth in the past decades. This has had serious consequences on the environment and public health. The Chinese government now realizes that it is not just the quantity, but the quality of development that matters. It has begun to instigate a series of policies to tackle pollution, increase the proportion of clean energy, and redress the balance between urban and rural development—in a coordinated effort to build a harmonious society. Building a harmonious world was also the theme of the 33rd International Geographical Congress, which was held in Beijing last August. At the meeting, Bojie Fu, a member of National Science Review’s editorial board, shared a platform with geographers from Australia, China, Canada and France to discuss the challenges of urbanization, the roles of geographers in sustainable development, as well as the importance of food security, safety and diversity. Dadao Lu Economic geographer at the Institute of Geography and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Jean-Robert Pitte Historical and cultural geographer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in Paris, France Mark Rosenberg Health geographer at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada Mark Stafford Smith Ecologist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia Bojie Fu (Chair) Physical geographer at the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; President of Geographical Society of China

scholarly journals A View from the Bush: Space, Environment and the Historiography of Science

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Evenden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
Historiography Of Science ◽  
History Of

Abstract This paper examines the interdisciplinary connections among the history of science, historical geography and environmental history. Four approaches have shaped recent scholarship: a spatial approach developed primarily but not exclusively within the discipline of geography that emphasizes problems of space, place, location and circulation; second, a disciplinary approach which pursues histories of environmental disciplines; third, a science and change approach containing works which emphasize the role of science in environmental change; and fourth an eco-spatial approach which includes studies that seek to engage with and link historiographies of science, environment and spatiality. I argue that these approaches have created new connections between fields that should be fostered and extended.

scholarly journals DAGHESTAN FEDERAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: THE DIFFICULT AND GLORIOUS WAY OF CREATION (TO THE 75 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION)

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Akai Kurbanovich MURTAZAEV ◽  
Yuliya Mikhaylovna LYSENKO
Keyword(s):  
Ussr Academy ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Activities ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of Formation

The article examines the history of formation and development of the Daghestan base of the USSR Academy of Sciences – the Daghestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences – the Daghestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences – the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Shown are the successes achieved by the team of Daghestan scientists over the years of its existence. The scientific and scientific-organizational activities of the Centre for 75 years have been analyzed.

scholarly journals A BRIEF HISTORY OF CREATION AND STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SERVICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA (to the 80th anniversary of E. V. Pogoda and the 20th anniversary of the North Ossetian Branch of the Federal Research Centre of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Саяпина ◽  
С.С. Багаева ◽  
С.В. Горожанцев
Keyword(s):  
Research Centre ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
The North ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
North Ossetia

В статье приводятся сведения, обосновывающие необходимость проведения сейсмологического мониторинга в Северной Осетии, как одном из сейсмоопасных регионов Российской Федерации. Описаны истоки, создание, этапы развития сейсмологической службы, участие в этом процессе известных ученых в области геофизических исследований. Дан краткий анализ технико-технологического состояния сейсмологической сети, результатов исследований, отмечена важность и необходимость дальнейшего развития сети СОФ ФИЦ ЕГС РАН в составе Федеральной системы сейсмологических наблюдений. The article provides information inderlining the necessity of conducting seismological monitoring in North Ossetia, as one of the earthquake-prone regions of the Russian Federation. Describes the sources, creation, stages of development of the seismological service, participation of well-known scientists in the fi eld of geophysical studies. A brief analysis of the technical and technological state of the seismological network is given, the importance and the need of further development of the NOB FRC GS RAS network within the Federal System of Seismological Observations.

scholarly journals Between East and West: Karel Chytil as Museologist, Educator, and Art Historian

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Pavel Šopák
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Czech Academy ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Adapted version of the text presented at the colloquium organised in Prague on 12 November 2019 by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) on the 85th anniversary of PhDr. Karel Chytil’s death. The text deals with the institutional and cultural political aspects of Chytil’s career as an art historian, museologist, and lecturer.

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