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Dogel A.S., (1852-1922), histologist
DOGEL Alexander Stanislavovich (1852-1922, Petrograd), histologist, Corresponding Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1894). Graduated from Kazan University in 1879
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Dokuchaev V.V., (1846-1903), soil scientist
DOKUCHAEV Vasily Vasilievich (1846-1903), naturalist, soil scientist. In 1871, graduated from the Science Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Petersburg University
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Education League
EDUCATION LEAGUE, All-Russian public teaching organisation. It was founded in St. Petersburg in 1906, its charter approved in 1907, on the initiative of members of literacy committees closed by the government for united and coordinated activities of
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Eichenbaum B.М., (1886-1959), literary historian
EICHENBAUM Boris Mikhailovich (1886-1959, Leningrad), a literary historian, Ph.D. (philology) in 1918. Living in St. Petersburg from 1905, he studied at the Army Medical Academy and P. F
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Euler L., (1707-1783), mathematician
EULER Leonard (1707-83), mathematician, mechanical engineer, and physicist. A native of Switzerland, he studied at Basel University. Invited to the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, where he worked as a scientific assistant from 1726
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European University, St. Petersburg
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (3 Gagarinskaya Street) is a non-state institution of post-graduate education in post-graduate programme in the sphere of social sciences and humanities
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Famintsyn A.S., (1835-1918), botanist
FAMINTSYN Andrey Sergeevich (1835-1918), plant physiologist, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1884) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917). In 1857 he graduated from the University of St
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Favorsky А.Е., (1860-1945), chemist
FAVORSKY Alexey Evgrafovich (1860-1945), chemist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1929), Hero of Socialist Labour (1945). He graduated from the department of natural science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of St
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Fersman А.Е., (1883-1945), geochemist
FERSMAN Alexander Evgenievich (1883-1945), geochemist and mineralogist, member (1919), vice-president (1927-29) and the Presidium member (since 1929) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
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Flittner N.D. (1879-1957), Eastern Studies scholar
FLITTNER Natalia Davydovna (1879, St. Petersburg - 1957, Leningrad), Historian of the East, Egyptologist. Ph.D. (Doctor of History) (1940). Graduated from the Department of History and Philology of Higher Women’s Courses (Bestuzhev courses) in 1904
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Free Economic Society
FREE ECONOMIC SOCIETY, the Imperial Free Economic Society for the Encouragement of Farming and Housebuilding in Russia, the oldest Russian scientific society. It was founded in 1765 by large landowners striving for higher agricultural efficiency;
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Frenkel Y.I., (1894-1952), physicist
FRENKEL Yakov Iliich (1894-1952, Leningrad), specialist in theoretical physics, Associate of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1929). He came to St. Petersburg in 1909. Here he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of St
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Fridman A.A. (1888-1925), physicist, mathematician
FRIDMAN Alexander Alexandrovich (1888, St. Petersburg - 1925, Leningrad), mathematician and physicist. Holder of a master's degree (1922). Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University (1910)
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Gas Dynamics Laboratory
GAS DYNAMICS LABORATORY, the first national research and development organisation specialising in space technology. It was founded in Moscow in 1921 as N. I. Tikhomirov's Laboratory for Development of Inventions
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Geological Committee
GEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE, the first governmental geological institution in Russia. It was founded in 1882 as part of the Department of Mines to conduct systematic studies of Russia's geological structure and mineral resources and construct general
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Gorky House of Scientists, a creative club
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
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Gottorp Globe
GOTTORP GLOBE, a unique planetarium globe - a hollow rotating sphere over 3.1 metres in diameter with the Earth surface pictured on the outside and a celestial map on the inside of the sphere
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Historical and Political Archives of St. Petersburg
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ARCHIVES OF ST. PETERSBURG, Central State Historical and Political Archives situated at 39 Tavricheskaya Street. The archives originated from the Commission for the Collection and Study of Materials on the History of the
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Historical Societies (entry)
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, associations of historians, including both professionals and amateurs, aimed at studying and developing various historical issues. Most historical societies received imperial support during the 19th and early 20th centuries
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Historical Society of St. Petersburg University
HISTORICAL SOCIETY of St. Petersburg University founded in 1889 on the initiative of Professor N. I. Kareev, who became its permanent chairman. The society had its meetings at the Faculty of History and Philology
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House of Plekhanov, department of Russian Science Library
HOUSE OF PLEKHANOV (33/1 Forth Krasnoarmeiskaya Street), a sector of the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian Science Library. It was formed in 1928 as Department No
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Hydrometeorological Centre
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL CENTRE, St. Petersburg, of the North Western Interregional Board of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, situated at 2a Twenty-third Line of Vasilievsky Island
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Hydrometeorological Monitoring
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL MONITORING. Visual weather and Neva level monitoring conducted ever since St. Petersburg was founded as decreed by Peter the Great. Regular hydrometeorological monitoring started for the first time in Russia in 1722. F. C
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Inostrantsev A.A., (1843-1919), geologist, archaeologist
INOSTRANTSEV Alexander Alexandrovich (1843, Farforovoe Village, close to St. Petersburg -1919, Petrograd), geologist, Corresponding Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917)
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Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 18 Dvortsovaya Embankment. It was founded in 1919 on the basis of the Archaeological Committee established in St
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Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
INSTITUTE OF HISTORY of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, located at 7 Petrozavodskaya Street, successor to the Archaeographic Commission. It was established in 1936 as the Leningrad Department of the Institute of History of the
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Institute of History, Philosophy, and Linguistics
INSTITUTE OF HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND LINGUISTICS, Leningrad, founded in 1930/31 as the History and Linguistics Institute on the basis of a history and linguistics department separated from the Leningrad State University
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Institute of Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INSTITUTE OF THE HUMAN BRAIN of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 9 Akademika Pavlova Street. It was founded in 1990 on the initiative of N. V. Bekhtereva, a member of the academy
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Institute of Language and Thought of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, a research institution founded in 1921 as the Institute for Japhetic (European) Studies, renamed the Japhetic Institute in 1922
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Institute of Northern Peoples
INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN PEOPLES, an educational research institution. It separated from the Northern Department of the Leningrad Oriental Institute in December 1929
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