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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: E-6Last update of repository: 15 March 2020Institut istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki im. S.I. Vavilova RAN (IIET)Nauchnyi arkhiv [Scientific Archive] Telephone: +7 495 988-22-80, add. 60-27 Opening hours: TuTh 12:00–18:00Head: Varvara Viktorovna Abakhova (tel. +7 495 988-22-80, add. 60-27) Holdings Total: 27 fonds; 10,000 units; 1944–1996 institutional fonds—4 (1944–1996); personal papers and collections—23 fonds The Scientific Archive (part of the Informational Analitical Center “Archive of Science and Technology”) retains the scholarly and administrative records of the Institute and its predecessor institutions under the Academy of Sciences, such as the Institute for the History of Natural Science (1945–1953), the Commission for the History of Technology of the Division of Technical Sciences (1944–1953), and the Commission for the History of Chemistry (1946–1952). There are a number of personal papers of Soviet scholars in the field of the history of science and technology. These include fonds of the historian of mathematics and mechanics I.N. Veselovskii (1892–1977), the historian of biology S.L. Sobol' (1893–1960), the historian of chemistry G.V. Bykov (1914–1982), the historian of physics O.A. Starosel'skaia-Nikitina (1895–1969), and the historian of mathematics and astronomy L.E. Maistrov (1920–1982), among others. Reference facilities: Reference facilities are lacking. Only part of the fonds have been processed and described, so that opisi are not available for some of the materials. |