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Scientific Readings in Memoriam Yu. Kh. Kopelevich

Issue 2 from 27.06.2022

                        

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The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and provincial amateur scientists in the 18h century

Issue 2 from 01.06.2007

In 1759, in response to a proposal by academicians M. V. Lomonosov and Jacob von Stelin, and the counselor of the academic chancellery, 1.1. Taubert, the Academy of Sciences established a new membership class - the corresponding member. On 29 January of that year, the historian, economist, and geographer from Orenburg, P. I. Rychkov, became the first correspondent, and between 1759 and 1803, the Academy elected 30 scientific amateurs to corresponding membership. The correspondents lived for the most part in the provincial cities of Russia, including Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Vologda, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Perm, Saratov, and Tver. Approximately 70% studied the natural sciences, while 30% focused on the humanities. The rank of corresponding member did not carry any pecuniary advantages-it simply honored and recognized contributions to science. Support and attention from the Academy of Sciences to scientific amateurs in diverse Russian cities promoted the realization of their scientific interests, and they enriched science with valuable discoveries and materials, cultivated interest in obtaining new knowledge, and broadened the contacts of the Academy throughout the nation. The activity of these 30 academic correspondents acquired such notoriety that the status of corresponding members became firmly institutionalized in the «Regulations of the Academy of Sciences» in 1803.

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On the 90th birthday of V. N. Makeeva: Retrospective on her scientific work

from 01.09.2008

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12th Symposium “Germans in Russia”

Issue 3 from 01.09.2001

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Academy of Sciences and the public education in Russia in the second half of XVIII century

Issue 1 from 28.01.1991

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New documents about the work of the Comission on the history of knowledge of the Academy of Science of USSR

Issue 2 from 16.05.1991

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Conference "Germans in Russia"

Issue 4 from 14.11.1991

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