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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)Previous names
The origins of the present Institute date to the various earlier commissions on the history of science established in Petrograd after 1917, and the Institute of the History of Science and Technology (1932–1938) in Leningrad, which was disbanded in 1938 with the arrest of its director, N.I. Bukharin. In 1953, the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology was founded on the basis of the earlier Institute of the History of Natural Science (founded in Moscow in 1944/1945), which also absorbed the functions of the Commission for the History of Technology and the Commission for the History of Chemistry. The Institute was renamed in honor of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov in 1990. Leningrad Division was organized in 1953 (since 1991 a Branch—see E–31). The Scientific Archive was organized in 1954, on the basis of the records of the predecessor institutions. The Iconographic Collection was formed in 1974. The Laboratory of Scientific-Applied Photography and Cinematography (LAFOKI) owes its origin to the photographic laboratory of the Russian Photographic Society. The Central Photographic Laboratory was established in Leningrad in 1930 as a central photographic laboratory for Leningrad institutions of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and has borne its present name (LAFOKI) since 1933. In 1934, after the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences was moved to Moscow, an analogous laboratory was established there, which then assumed the central status. The Leningrad laboratory has subsequently retained the status of a branch. In the 1970s, part of the holdings of the LAFOKI Photograph Archive was transferred to the Archive of the Academy of Sciences. The entire rich collection of portraits and photographs relating to space research remains in LAFOKI, along with many others. In 2000 the Moscow Laboratory (LAFOKI) was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology by the decision of Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the St. Petersburg branch of LAFOKI became an independent institution under the Russian Academy of Sciences. In December 2004 St. Petersburg Laboratory was abolished, and its fonds (ca. 40,000 negatives) were transferred to the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (E–25, fond 298, 1931–1943; electronically: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa...). |
