Scientific and Historical Research for Ensuring Technological Sovereignty
The stand you have visited is an attempt to reveal the diversity of the monumental scientific and historical work that is being carried out in the educational institutions of our country. The idea of this exhibition is to show the breadth of its directions and the unity of goals to which this work is subordinated.
Each segment reflects an approach, a direction, and an angle from which to look at history and its cognition. The scientist will find the data on the application of modern diagnostic methods in the study of antiquity. The teacher will get acquainted with relevant approaches to the transfer of unshakable values. The researcher will plunge into the stories of outstanding compatriots who worked for the benefit of the Motherland even at the most difficult times.
Soviet botanist Nikolai I. Vavilov.

He and the staff of the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) collected a unique seed and seedling collection, the most valuable part of which remained in the very centre of besieged Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. The rooms with collections of wheat, rice, barley, corn, and tomatoes were sealed and entering them alone was strictly prohibited. Among those who died of hunger during the blockade of Leningrad there are thirty names of VIR staff members. These people were dying of starvation just a few steps away from dozens of kilograms of grain, but they did not touch the collection.

Photo: VIR named after N. I. Vavilov
October 1943, USSR, Moscow

Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Igor V. Kurchatov. Physicist, organizer of science, scientific director of the Soviet atomic project.
Under his leadership a new type of radioactivity was discovered — the phenomenon of spontaneous uranium fission (1940), the first experimental nuclear reactor in Europe and Asia called F-1 was assembled.

Photo by Yevgeny Tikhanov TASS Photo Chronicle
April 21, 1977. USSR. Novosibirsk

Laureate of the Lenin Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Director of the Computing Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences Gury I. Marchuk during a lecture.

Photo by Anatoly Polyakov TASS Photo Chronicle
May 27, 1964. USSR. Moscow Region. Dubna

Outstanding experimental physicist Vladimir Veksler during the Great Patriotic War made one of the greatest breakthroughs of the 20th century — he formulated the principle of accelerating elementary particles.
Deputy Director of the High Energy Laboratory Ivan V. Chuvilo and members of the Scientific Council — Laboratory Director Academician Vladimir I. Veksler and Hungarian scientist, Vice Director of JINR Professor Ervin Fenyves (from left to right) — during a break.

Photo by Yuri Tumanov. TASS Newsreel.
March 1, 1961. USSR. Moscow

Microbiologist Zinaida V. Ermolyeva, creator of the first Soviet penicillin who saved besieged Stalingrad from cholera.

TASS Photo Chronicle
March 1930. USSR. Leningrad Region

Russian physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and academician of the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Ivan P. Pavlov, in the village of Koltushi.
Photo by Rafail Mazelev

TASS Photo Chronicle
Moscow. Academician Petr Kapitsa during a lecture.

During the Great Patriotic War, the great scientist and engineer Petr Kapitsa developed a turbine installation to produce large-scale industrial liquid oxygen for hospitals and military factories.

Photo by Oleg Kuzmin. TASS Newsreel.
March 1, 1960. USSR. Moscow

Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, scientist-mechanic Sergei A. Khristianovich. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, he was the scientific director of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) for aerodynamics. During the war, under Sergei Khristianovich’s leadership, improvements were made to the "Katyusha" rocket artillery shells.
Photos by Sergei Preobrazhensky and Valentin Cheredintsevˋ

TASS Photo Chronicle
Outstanding Soviet educator and writer Anton S. Makarenko, portrait from a photograph of the 1920s. He documented his experience in rehabilitating troubled adolescents in "The Pedagogical Poem", which has been named one of the ten most significant books on education of the 20th century and translated into dozens of languages. Anton Makarenko himself was recognized by UNESCO as one of the greatest educators of the 20th century.

Reproduction. TASS
March 31, 1968. USSR

Senior engineer at the Research Institute for Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics at Gorky State University Z.A. Morozov in front of an electronic computer while developing methods for diagnosing and predicting disease outcomes and for surgical interventions.

Photo by Vladimir Voytenko. TASS Photo Chronicle
January 1, 1990. USSR. Moscow

Future communications officers Sergey Fillipov (left) and Abdulla Ali Makhir (Yemen) during practical training in radio signal reception.

Photo by Pavel Maksimov. TASS Photo Chronicle
USSR, Moscow

Students of Kuntsevo Urban Secondary School No. 5, members of the Timur team, sawing firewood for the families of front-line soldiers during the Great Patriotic War.

Photo by Nikolai Sitnikov TASS Photo Chronicle
1943. USSR

Fitter V. Lebedev (in the foreground), who increased his productivity to 200 percent, in one of the factory workshops during the Great Patriotic War. The movement of "two-hundreders," who committed to produce a daily output for themselves and their comrades who went to the front, was widespread at factories and rear enterprises during the Great Patriotic War.

Photo by Vasily Baydalov. TASS Photo Chronicle
USSR. Moscow

Red Army soldier B. I. Chichelimov receiving a May Day gift from the pioneers of School No. 230 during his treatment in one of the hospitals after being wounded during the Great Patriotic War.

Photo by Leonid Velikzhanin. TASS Photo Chronicle
March 1942. USSR. Kazakh SSR. Chimkent Region

Music club activity at the Children’s home named after V. Lenin during the Great Patriotic War.

Photo by Emmanuil Ezerykhin. TASS Photo Chronicle
September 1942. USSR. Leningrad region

Students of Vahrushevskaya elementary school in Tikhvin district helping to harvest carrots in the fields of the kolkhoz "Prosveshchenie" during the Great Patriotic War.

Photo by Vasily Fedoseev. TASS Photo Chronicle
Spring 1942. USSR. Crimean ASSR. Sevastopol

High school students at the entrance to an air-raid shelter, where their school has been relocated during the city’s defense against German fascist invaders during the Great Patriotic War.

Photo by Israel Ozerskyˋ. TASS Photo Chronicle
Book exhibition in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory
The Russian Center for Scientific Information (RCSI) conducts information-analytical activities in the field of science, fosters international scientific and technical cooperation, and provides Russian scientists with access to scientific information.

As part of its publishing program implemented with financial support from RCSI, over 6,000 scientific publications in socio-humanitarian and natural science fields have been published.
The exhibition features scholarly works dedicated to the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War. These publications present unique materials for researchers and educators, helping to convey to new generations the truth about the war, whose understanding remains the foundation of our national identity and cultural code.
RSCI provides:

— information and analytical support for Scientific and Technological Development Commission of the Russian Federation;
— information support for scientific research, including financing national subscriptions and providing access to electronic publications and scientific information resources;
— creation and managing the "White List" of journals in order to ensure monitoring and evaluation of the publication activity of scientific and educational organizations;
— development and maintenance of a platform for periodicals with a full range of features for publishing and distributing scientific journals;
— development of scientific diplomacy as an element of international scientific and technical cooperation;
— organization of the publication and distribution of periodicals and other publications of the RSCI.
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