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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: E-1Last update of repository: 19 June 2020Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk (ARAN)Holdings Total: 1,106 fonds, 532,114 units, 1636–to present personal papers—647 fonds; institutional fonds—451; collections (razriady)—8 The central Moscow archive holds post-1933 records of the Academy, including records of the Academy’s headquarters and Moscow-based institutions under the Academy—the Presidium and its sections and divisions (including those of mathematical and natural sciences, mechanics, oceanography, astrophysics, geography, physiology, economics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, etc.); records of the Presidium Secretariat, the bureaus of divisions for different branches of science, the departments of foreign relations and scientific cooperation, scientific councils, permanent commissions, committees, associations, and others. It also has fonds of the Moscow-based physico-mathematical institutes, as well as those of natural sciences—the V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the N.D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry (E–16), the A.N. Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, the V.I. Vernadskii Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (E–18), the M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography. It holds the records of scientific societies such as the All-Union Society of Astronomy and Geodesy, the All-Union Biochemical Society, the All-Union Hydrobiological Society, and the I.P. Pavlov Physiological Society. Among the fonds of institutes in the humanities and social sciences are records of the Institute of General History, the Institute of Russian History (formerly, the Institute of History of the USSR, E–3), the N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (formerly, the Institute of Ethnography, E–5), the Institute of the Latin American Studies, the Institute of Economics, the A.M. Gor'kii Institute of World Literature (E–8), and others. There are also records of the Archeographic Commission, the Chief Editorial Office of Oriental Literature of the “Nauka” Publishing House, and others. The archive retains the fonds of the Communist Academy under the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (TsIK SSSR) (1924–1936), research institutes within the framework of the Communist Academy and earlier SocialistAcademy (institutes of agriculture, agricultural economics, natural sciences, Soviet construction, state and law, philosophy, Marxist methodology, history, literature, arts, and philology), scientific societies, Marxist scientific and scholarly associations (of biologists, physicians, mathematicians, economists, orientalists, regional studies [kraevedy], and others). The archive also has many personal papers of prominent intellectuals of that time, who were members of the Communist Academy or those who joined it after its “bolshevization” in 1928–1930. The archive also has personal papers of a number of scientists, including documents from the nineteenth and early twentieth century–for example, the mathematician P.L. Chebyshev, the physicist P.P. Lazarev, the physiologists I.M. Sechenov and I.I.Mechnikov, the geochemist V.I. Vernadskii, the chemist N.D. Zelinskii, and others; the historians V.O. Kliuchevskii, M.A. D'iakonov, V.I. Semevskii, and Slavicist F.E. Korsh. Most fonds of personal origin date from the Soviet era. There are personal papers of the presidents of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (V.L. Komarov, S.I. Vavilov, A.N. Nesmeianov, M.V. Keldysh), as well as of many distinguished scientists, such as the physicists D.V. Skobel'tsyn and I.E. Tamm, the chemists A.N. Nesmeianov and A.V. Topchiev, the biologist N.V. Timofeev-Resovskii, the historians M.M. Bogoslovskii, S.B.Veselovskii, Iu.V. Got'e, N.M. Druzhinin, M.V. Nechkina, V.T. Pashuto, M.N. Pokrovskii, S.D. Skazkin, and others. There are several collections of scientific and scholarly works, biographical files of scholars and scientists, portraits and cartographic materials. |
