Vol. 3, No. 4

• Word from the Editor-in-Chief
• Scientific Societies as a Phenomenon of Russian Science: Issues of Historiography and Methodology, Commemorative Practices

Date in History
260th Anniversary of the Free Economic Society

1. Konstantin A. Petrikov
   “A Joint Spirit of Emulation”: The Idea of Competition in the Work of the Free Economic Society pages 12 - 27
2. Elena F. Sinelnikova
   «Let’s Talk about Just Two Russian Scientific Societies»: N.S. Leskov on the Free Economic Society and on the Russian Geographical Society pages 28 - 37

180th Anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society

1. Andrey Yu. Skrydlov
   “To Encourage the Study of the Fatherland...”: From the History of the Establishment of the Zhukov Prize by the Russian Geographical Society (1847–1861) pages 38 - 49
2. Daria V. Koroleva
   P.P. Semyonov’s 1856/1857 Expedition to Tien Shan in the Context of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society’s Activities pages 50 - 61

History of Scientific Societies

1. Tatiana Yu. Feklova
   From Fragmentation to Unity: the First Societies of Meteorological Scientists pages 62 - 78
2. Olga Yu. Elina
   «If others can do it, so can I»: The Association of Self-taught Naturalists (ASSNAT) in the early Soviet History of Science pages 79 - 109
3. Ivan P. Vtorov
   Towards the History of the Russian Geological Society pages 110 - 118
4. Yury L. Voytekhovsky
   From the History of the Russian Mineralogical Society: a Conference That Never Happened pages 119 - 131

Methodological Frontier of Modern Science

1. Vladimir M. Kotlyakov, Viacheslav A. Shuper
   The Unity of the scientific community and the diversity of scientific ideas pages 132 - 151

People of Science

1. Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin
   “Per il loro diletto”: German Dilettanti in the History of Biology pages 152 - 177

Reflections on the Book

1. Alexander L. Kleitman
   «The History of the Imperial Free Economic Society» by A. I. Khodnev as a historiographic source pages 178 - 189

Visual Sources

1. Roman A. Fando
   Vanity Fair Caricatures of the Royal Society Fellows: Problems of Visual Interpretation pages 190 - 209
2. Yury L. Voytekhovsky
   Rare Photos from the Archive of Professor D.P. Grigoriev pages 210 - 222

Publication of Documents

1. Aleksei V. Sobisevich
   A.P. Shurygin’s Memorandum on the Participation of Soviet Delegation in the First International Congress of Soil Science (USA, 1927) pages 223 - 259
2. Evgenii G. Pivovarov
   N.F. Litke’s Works about F.P. Litke, Vice-Chairman of Russian Geographical Society pages 260 - 271

Reviews

1. Ilya V. Sidorchuk
   “Between official and unofficial forms of scientific life”: Book review: Sinelnikova E.F. Scientific societies of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s. St. Petersburg: Scythia-print, 2022. 348 p. pages 272 - 278

Scientific Life

1. Sergey V. Shalimov
   27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology pages 279 - 284
2. Olga A. Valkova
   Symposia “Doing Gender: premises, concepts, methods, sources, audiences in history of science, technology and medicine” at the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (June 29 - July 5, 2025) pages 285 - 289
3. Alina E. Merkulova
   Scientific readings “Admiral F. P. Litke and Science in Russia: In Commemoration of the 180th Anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society” pages 290 - 296
4. Yermolov Fedor, Kaverin Alexey
   Research Program of the ANO “Institute of Cultural and Material Heritage” for the Study of the Tsarevskoye Settlement pages 297 - 308