Photograph album “From the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the XVII Congress of the VKP(b)” as a visual report and a historical source

By the 1930s, photography became part of both the everyday life of society and scientific
work, an important method of scientific research and result presentation. There are two
copies of the photograph album “From the USSR Academy of Sciences to the XVII article offers a brief overview of the photographs in the album, supplemented by
information on the history of its creation.
Congress of the VKP(b) [All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)]” deposited at the
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The photographs depict the sessions of the
Academy of Sciences, its buildings in Leningrad and its branches, institutes, laboratories,
museums, expeditions, library, archive and publishing house. The album was intended as
a gift to the Party Congress deputies and was published at the end of January 1934. The