No 4 (2010)

The author of the article analyses specific features of ontognoseological and public humanitarian projections of modern civilization in the setting of world existential catharsis in the beginning of the 3rd millennium.

The article presents the close analogy between the traditional semi-underground housing Paleo-Asiatic people (the Chukchi, Koryak, Yukagir, Eskimo, etc.) and some types of dugouts dwellings of Upper Paleolithic in the East European Plain (Byki 1, Gagarino, Kostenki 8 Layer 1). The hypothesis concerning the formation of similar settlement stereotypes in similar climatic conditions, subject to similar economic and cultural patterns of the population.

There were investigated the materials of the popular journal of the 20th century dealing with social life and politics which was characterized by apposition and progressive ideas.

The article is devoted to one of the aspects of public education in Tobolsk province: the methods of development and the main activities of parochial schools at the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century.

For the first time in national science, the article represents the analytical outline of culture of collective farm organization in 1930s with the help of materials of the European part of USSR.

Enormous natural resources in Russia significantly influenced the making of industrial policy of the USSR. Oil and gas played a key role in that policy. The way from Baku to Tyumen is the evidence of progress in science and technology. However, the success of the Soviet customization did not mean to stop the progress; but a long-period hope for extensive growth factors brought the country to a deadlock. Notwithstanding the immense changes in the world, at the end of the 20h century the country continued to develop in the direction which had been set in 1930's-1950's.