In the interests of the State and Society: the Scientific Heritage of the founders of Siberian Academic Institutions. Review of the Book by N. Kupershtokh, I. Kraineva “Institutes of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center are Named after Them”

Abstract

In the context of the great challenges of our time, scientific heritage has an urgent and resource value for the development of science, taking into account the public needs for its socio-cultural communication and personalization. The historical experience of the organization and management of science through the prism of the activities of outstanding scientists of Russia – the founders of academic institutions at the Novosibirsk Scientific Center (NSC) of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the late 1950s. Its results and prospects are summarized in the monograph N. Kuperstokh, I. Kraineva “The institutes of the Novosibirsk Scientific Centerare named after them”. Using the example of 14 named institutes, the authors analyzed the role of leading scientists in the formation of new scientific directions for Siberia in the fields of mathematics, computer science, mechanics and energy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology. The book reveals the specifics of the organization of research in each field of knowledge. The naming of the first directors to the institutes of the NSC testifies to their expedient time and perspective vision of scientific directions, which in the XXI century are implemented by their students and followers. A new approach to the study in historical dynamics of the role and influence of the scientific heritage of leaders in the context of socio–cultural space shouldbe developed in relation to other scientific centers of Siberia – Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, adapted to the project “Akademgorodok 2.0”.