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Gorky House of Scientists, a creative club


Categories / Science. Education/Learned Societies

GORKY HOUSE OF SCIENTISTS of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 26 Dvortsovaya Embankment, an academic club for the intelligentsia. It was founded on the initiative of M. Gorky in 1920 at the same time as the Petrograd Committee for the Welfare of Scientists, named after Gorky in 1940. There were 33 departments in the House of Scientists, specialising in various fields. In 2002, it included departments for social economy and statistics, books and graphics, etc. Its library consists of over 70,000 volumes. It is situated in the former Vladimirsky Palace.

Reference: Ноздрачев А. Д., Петрицкий В. А. Первый в России Дом ученых // Вестн. РАН. 1995. Т. 65, № 10. С. 922-930; Петроградский дом ученых, 1920-1921: История в документах. СПб., 2000.

O. N. Ansberg.

Persons
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)

Addresses
Dvortsovaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 26

Bibliographies
Ноздрачев А. Д., Петрицкий В. А. Первый в России Дом учёных // Вестн. РАН, 1995
Петроградский дом ученых, 1920-1921: История в док. СПб., 2000

The subject Index
Vladimirsky Palace

Chronograph
1920


Piotrovsky B.B., (1908-1990), archaeologist

PIOTROVSKY Boris Borisovich (1908, St. Petersburg - 1990, Leningrad), orientalist, archaeologist, museum worker, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1970), honoured worker of arts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1964)

Vladimirsky Palace

VLADIMIRSKY PALACE (26 Dvortsovaya Embankment/ 27 Millionnaya Street), architectural monument of eclecticism. It was built for Grand Prince Vladimir Alexandrovich in 1867-1872 (architect A.I. Rezanov with the participation of architects A.L. Gun, I