Russkii Arkhiv

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Authors: Evgeny V. Kurochkin

Porfiry Nikitich Krylov is an outstanding Russian botanist, one of the organizers of the Siberian Botanical Garden, founder of the botanical museum with an herbarium of Tomsk University, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, researcher and author of a large number of books and articles on botany. After the revolution of 1917, he remained faithful to his lifework, but many details disappeared from his official biography. Only now, with the opening of archives and their digitalization, the life story of Porfiry Nikitich, as well as his father – the Perm merchant of the 1st guild, hereditary honorary citizen of the city of Perm, commercial adviser to Anikita Kondratyevich Krylov, opens its pages. The purpose of the article is to reveal the possibilities of the sources available to researchers in the study of the P.N. Krylov’s family history.

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Authors: Alla V. Shadrina

The problem of transformation of state power in the pre-revolutionary period continues to remain relevant in the light of understanding the causes of the consequences of the revolutionary events of the early 20th century, which affected all classes of the Russian Empire. In this context, the personality of a member of the First State Duma, a deputy from the Don Host Region, priest Klavdii Afanasiev, is of interest. His position clearly outlined a number of issues that continue to remain relevant to this day: on the possibility and necessity of the participation of representatives of the clergy in the political life of the country; on the reaction to this kind of participation of state authorities, the Church and ordinary citizens; on the punishment of clergy for disagreeing with the state policy. Documents from the investigative case of the spiritual court of the Don Spiritual Consistory, which reflect the views of the priest, the opinion of the diocesan authorities and parishioners, are presented in the publication. Verbatim reports of the State Duma demonstrating the political position of K.I. Afanasyeva are also published.

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Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko

The article summarizes the experience of the publishing activities of the journal “Russkii Arkhiv” in 2013–2023. The 19th century historian and literary critic, P.I. Bartenev, founded the historical and literary journal “Russkii Arkhiv” with the aim of publishing sources on the Russian history and culture. The journal was published in Moscow from January 1863 to 1917. During this time, it accumulated a huge number of sources on the history and culture of Russia, mainly documents, diaries, memoirs and notes of the second half of the 18th – the first third of the 19th centuries. In the 1990s various publishing houses have undertaken a number of projects to publish historical documents under the same title. Since 2013, Academic Publishing House Researcher (since 2021 – Cherkas Global University Press) resumed the publication of “Russkii Arkhiv” as a periodical. The article provides data on the total number of published materials, as well as their specific and thematic analysis.

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Authors: Nicholas W. Mitiukov, Yury L. Kim

The study of the composition and evolution of the river fleets of the enterprises of the USSR is extremely difficult. Since individual enterpises were subordinate to a variety of ministries and departments, with a significantly different form and composition of the documentation. Moreover, for many enterprises, their river fleet played a supporting role in production, which is why it could not be mentioned in the traditional annual final reports. In this regard, the search for sources that summarized the data on the river fleets for a certain period is relevant. The paper proposes a method of sequential reconstruction based on the 26-vod form of the annual statistical report. Firstly, based on a comparison of the summary form for water transport and the same form for individual farms, the forms for the missing farms are reconstructed. After that, the composition and evolution of the fleets of these farms are reconstructed. In total, it was possible to reconstruct the ships of about a dozen enterprises of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1947-56. Unfortunately, the method is not without drawbacks. The main one is the complete impersonality of the fleet. Therefore, the names of ships can only be judged on the basis of additional sources. The second drawback is the possibility of combining two courts into one or the possible division of one into two. For example, in the absence of additional information, it is impossible to understand whether the 30 HP vessel of the Sarapul’s Gortop before 1950 and after 1950, is the same or two different ships.

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Authors: Daria K. Leonova, Elizaveta E. Glazunova

An interview with an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an outstanding chemist Vladimir Isaakovich Minkin was conducted and prepared for publication as a part of the research project “Scientists of the Southern Federal University: Yesterday, Today and Always”. The project aims at the popularization of oral history and forms a unique cultural code of the Southern Federal University through microsocial history. It forms a complex of biographical materials about outstanding scientists and employees of the Southern Federal University, whose childhood and youth fell on the years of the Great Patriotic War. In accordance with the goal, at the first stage of the project implementation, the personality of V.I. Minkin was chosen. He is a well-known scientist in Russia and abroad in the field of physical and organic chemistry. He devoted many years to the Chemistry Department of the Rostov State University, and nowadays hу is the scientific director of the Southern Federal University. The scientist shared not only his memories of the family, childhood in the time of war, life in evacuation, but also about Soviet life and everyday life of the scientific community of the city of Rostov-on-Don and the university in the 20th century.