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(aya)’s collection of V. I. Vernadskii’s letters, the A. O. and V. O. Kovalevskii
correspondence, the P. P. Lazarev correspondence, and S. B. Vdeselovskii’s
documents on the Printed Order (the Pechatnyi prikaz); under the direction of I. D.
Koval’chenko “Methodology and Historiography, Source Studies and Methods of
Historical Research”, the A. S. Lapapo-Danilevskii scientific legacy; under the
guidance of B. B. Piotrovskii “The History of World Culture,” documents of N. I.
Vavilov in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, autobiographical
materials of biologists, the Central Astronomical Observatory history, the P. S.
Pallas correspondence from 1741 to 1811, and the history of Russian-French
scientific ties in the 18th century. The Archive has been headed by Dr. Boris V.
Levshin, D. Hist. S., since 1963.
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4. Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Division,
was established in 1963 as a division of the Moscow Archive. Its staff of 16 persons
includes six candidate of science degree holders. It preserves documents of
constituent institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and collections of
individual scholars and scientists from the early 18th century to the present.
Altogether there are some 735 collections and 16 “special” collections with a total of
some 479,000 files housed in the St. Petersburg division. The St. Petersburg
division is headed by Vladimir S. Sobolev, C. Hist. S.
5. Archeology Institute in Moscow.
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Located at Dm. Ulyianova st., 19, Moscow, V-36, 117036. tel. 126-94-43.
Directed by Professor Rauf M. Munchaev. tel. 126-47-98.
Retrospect: The first governmental institution for the supervision of archeological
research was established in 1859 in the Imperial Archeological Commission. In
1867, publications on archeology began and provisions were made for periodic
archeological conferences. In 1919, the Commission’s functions were given to the
Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg (Leningrad ),
and art studies and the development of human culture were added to the scientific
concerns of this academy. At the same time an Institute of Archeological Technology
was established. (1919) This Academy was renamed in 1926 to the State Academy
of the History of Material Culture and headed by N. Ia. Marr until 1934. This State
Academy was responsible for inaugurating archeological expeditions that bolstered
the discipline considerably. It was also during Marr’s tenure that the structure of the
academy was changed by organizing into three major divisions: the archaic sector-pre-class
society; the slave-owning society sector, and the feud asocial formation
sector. This resulted in transforming the academy from an archeological institution
into a center for the historical research of pre-capitalist societies. In 1932, a Moscow
branch of the State Academy (GAIMK) was organized. In 1937, GAIMK and its
Moscow Branch were reorganized into the Institute of the History of Material
Culture of the AN SSSR, becoming an all-union institution focusing all of its
efforts on archeological research.
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The divisions of this new institute included:
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