Journal of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Since December 2023, RNCHPST has been publishing a quarterly specialized scientific journal.

Vol. 3
№1

05 мая 2025

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Contents

Word from the Editor-in-Chief

Calendar of 2025 Anniversaries in Russian Cosmonautics

Cosmonauts Fly Successfully Because They Are Well Trained (Photo Essay by Yu. M. Baturin)

Date in History
Space Anniversaries 2025


Lidiya V. Ivanova Star Place

Anna Yu. Kikina Traditions of the Cosmonauts Team and Space Flight Safety

Vladimir A. Solovyov, Mikhail N. Reshetnikov Towards the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Flight

Alexander P. Alexandrov «We Can not Live without Each Other in Space»

Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov “Leonov Immediately Found the Right Language to Communicate with Americans” (interview)

Yuri M. Baturin A Warm Handshake in the Cold War

Philosophical Perspective


Alexander V. Mikhailovsky, Elena L. Zheltova Russian Cosmism in the Perspective of the Pendulum Modernity

Reflections on the Book


Konstantin V. Ivanov The Real History and Mythologies of the Soviet Space Industry

Yuri M. Baturin Does a Totalitarian Spaceship Need a Democratic Control System?

Darya A. Konstantinova Space as a Myth: A Critical Look at Soviet Cosmonautics through the Prism of Vyacheslav Gerovich's Book

Publication of Documents


Ekaterina S. Ivanchenko A Flight for the Sake of Peace: International Apollo-Soyuz Project in the Documents from the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation

Svetlana S. Ivanova Alone with Space: Beyond the Confines of the Official Report of Pilot-Cosmonaut A.A. Leonov

Olga V. Selivanova 50th Anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz Mission: The Road to the Orbital Handshake

Visual Sources


Yuri M. Baturin The Philosophy of Nature in Space Photographs

Science at the Turns of Its History


Igor S. Dmitriev Who Created the Newtonian Paradigm? (On Velvet Revolutions in Science)

Alexey V. Postnikov, Liudmila N. Zinchuk New about the Maps of the Laxman-Lovtsov Expedition

Scientific Heritage of the IHST


Vladimir P. Vizgin Methodological Principles of Physics: at the Interface of History and Philosophy of Science (Towards the 50th Anniversary of the Book "Methodological Principles of Physics. History and Modernity" and the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of N.F. Ovchinnikov)

Scientific Life


Alexander V. Gorshenin The History of Natural and Technical Sciences in the Frame of the Interregional Science-to-Practice Conference “Memory of the Past – 2024”

Sergey V. Krichevskiy XLIX Academic Readings on Cosmonautics (Korolev Readings – 2025)

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R.A. Fando, Doctor of Historical Sciences – Editor-in-Chief
T.I. Khorkhordina, Doctor of Historical Sciences
N.N. Kolotilova, Doctor of Biological Sciences
A.L. Kleitman, Doctor of Historical Sciences – Deputy Editor-in-Chief
I.G. Konovalova, Doctor of Historical Sciences
N.I. Kuznetsova, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences
M.V. Malunova – Assistant Editor
G.N. Lanskoy, Doctor of Historical Sciences
I.V. Sozinov – Assistant Editor
B.L. Lichterman, Doctor of Medical Sciences
O.P. Belozerov, Doctor of Biological Sciences
I.G. Pechenkin, Doctor of Geological Sciences
V.P. Borisov, Doctor of Technical Sciences
A.V. Psyanchin, Doctor Geographical Sciences
L.I. Borodkin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of RAS
A.L. Rizhinashvili, Doctor of Biological Sciences
A.N. Rodny, Doctor of Chemical Sciences
A.A. Brovina, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Е.А. Rostovtsev, Doctor of Historical Sciences
M.D. Bukharin, Full Member of RAS, Doctor of Historical Sciences
A.Yu. Samarin, Doctor of Historical Sciences
G.I. Sinkevich, Doctor of Physical/Mathematical Sciences
V.P. Vizgin, Doctor of Physical/Mathematical Sciences
A.F. Smyk, Doctor of Physical/Mathematical А.А. Daukaev, Doctor of Geological Sciences Sciences
I.S. Dmitriev, Doctor of Chemical Sciences
Yu.S. Tsench, Doctor of Technical Sciences
O.Yu. Elina, Doctor of Historical Sciences
L.V. Shipovalova, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences
S.S. Ilizarov, Doctor of Historical Sciences
V.A. Shirokova, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
T.V. Ilyushina, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
I.N. Yurkin, Doctor of Historical Sciences

For authors

The journal of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology accepts scientific articles on the problems of history, philosophy, sociology of science and technology, scientific publications of sources on the history of science and technology in the volume of 0.5–1 author. l. (up to 40 thousand characters), book reviews – up to 0.5 author. l., informational messages – up to 0.2 autol. l.
There is no fee for publication.
All materials submitted to the editorial board are double-blind reviewed. The author is informed about the admission to the press or about the refusal of publication by e-mail.

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The materials provided for printing must contain the following elements in Russian and English: article title, author's name and surname, place of work, abstract (no more than 100 words) and keywords (5–7).

Manuscripts are submitted to the editorial email in doc, docx or rtf formats, Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing – 1. Footnote references (and comments) – size 12.

A separate file must be sent with information about the author: name, patronymic and surname, academic degree, academic title, place of work (study), position, contact information (phone number, email address). The phone number is necessary for the editor's prompt communication with the author, it will not be published in the journal.

Formatting bibliographic references

References to literature are given in the text of the article, immediately after the quote or confirmed data. The author's surname, year of publication and page are indicated in parentheses.

In the case when the author published several works in the same year, they are marked with Latin letters both in the list of literature and in the reference. For example: (Pallas, 1773a), (Pallas, 1773b, p. 244), (Gaisinovich, 1967d; 1988), (Kölreuter, 1940, p. 84).

References to archives and manuscript collections are formatted according to general rules, indicated in parentheses within the text of the article and included in the list of literature. All elements of archival references are separated by periods, for example: (RGADA. F. 248. Op. 113. D. 1579. L. 597–601).

A reference to an electronic resource is formatted in the text as for a published article or monograph, an indication of the website is formatted in the list of literature.

Short footnotes clarifying any provisions are allowed in the article.

Formatting the list of sources and literature

At the end of the article, there are two lists of sources and literature.

The first list is formatted in accordance with the RF standard GOST R 7.0.5-2008 "Bibliographic reference", introduced on January 1, 2009.

References to foreign sources in the list follow after Russian ones. Works that are not referenced in the text are not included in the list.

For books, the city, publisher, and number of pages are mandatory. For collections, the editor must be indicated (separated from the title by a slash (/)). The names of journals, newspapers and other periodicals are written in full, the volume, number (issue), and pages are indicated. The title of the publication where the article is published is separated from the title of the article by a double slash (//).

References to Internet resources are allowed. It is necessary to indicate the title of the source, then in square brackets indicate that it is an electronic resource [...], the URL and in parentheses the date of access.

Examples:

Anisimov Iu.A., Dobrov G.M. Izuchenie istorii tekhniki v USSR // Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. Vyp. 1. M.: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1956. S. 319–322.

Nauchno-issledovatelʹskiĭ otdel rukopiseĭ Rossiĭskoĭ gosudarstvennoĭ biblioteki (NIOR RGB). F. 255. Kn. 2. Ed. khr. 10.

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv literatury i iskusstva (RGALI). F. 449. Op. 1. D. 230.

Iurkin I.N. Demidovy – uchenye, inzhenery, organizatory nauki i proizvodstva. Opyt naukovedcheskoĭ prosopografii. M.: Nauka, 2001. 333 s.

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of St Mary & St Nicolas, Spalding. 3rd edition. 2005. P. 6–7. [Elektronnyĭ resurs]. Rezhim dostupa: http://www.stmaryandstnicolas.org.uk/documents/The%20Monumental%20Inscription.pdf (data obrashcheniia: 16.01.2024).

Formatting References

After the list of sources and literature, a bibliographic list is given, formatted according to international standards – References.

In this section, the following is indicated by transliteration into Latin:

- author's surname and initials;

- title of the work;

- title of the collection or journal;

- issue/volume number and its title (for continuing publications);

- name of the editor (for continuing publications and collections of articles).

The journal uses the BSI standard. For automatic transliteration according to this standard, use the following website: https://antropophob.ru/translit-bsi.

The following are given in English:

- place of publication (e.g. St. Petersburg);

- name of the publisher;

- volume/issue number for continuing publications and journals;

- year of publication;

- number/range of pages;

- language of the work, if not in English (e.g. In Russian).

When compiling the bibliographic description, attention must be paid to the use of italics (see examples below).

Examples:

Aleksandrov V.Ia. Po povodu pisʹma V. Kriukova "Oproverg li IA. Rapoport uchenie Lepeshinskoĭ?". Nauka i zhiznʹ, 1989, no. 5, p. 53. (In Russian)

Lepeshinskaia O.B. Moi vospominaniia. Abakan, Khakknigoizdat, 1957, 102 p. (In Russian)

Requirements for formatting illustrations (drawings, diagrams, photographs)

All images included in the text of the article must be numbered.

In the captions to the illustrations, it is necessary to indicate the name, date, source.

Images are presented as separate files in TIF or JPG formats with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.


Four issues are planned to be published in 2024:

  • No. 1 – acceptance of materials until February 15 (issuing editors: Fando R.A., Sozinov I.V.)
  • No. 2 – thematic issue dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences – reception of materials until May 15 (editors: Ilizarov S.S., Kleitman A.L.)
  • No. 3 – acceptance of materials until August 19 (issuing editors: Fando R.A., Malunova M.V.)
  • No. 4 – a thematic issue devoted to the history of the ideologization and dialectification of Soviet science (2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the first publication of F. Engels "Dialectics of Nature") - acceptance of materials until November 15 (editors: Kuznetsova N.I., Sozinov I.V.)


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