History

Aim. The aim of the paper is to study the impact of the works of R. Feynman and J. Schwinger on the development of condensed matter physics in the Soviet Union in the end 1940s and early 1960s. Method. The research is based on the analysis of original works with the use of available literature concerning the issue under consideration.

Aim of the work is the model of relations between the scientist and the evolving social system. The model describes the key components of creative activity, the features of the sociocultural situation and the factors that can affect creative productivity.

Aim. The main stages of scientific activity of V.A. Solntsev from the student’s bench to the leader of the scientific school on radiophysics and microwave electronics are investigated. Method. Based on the primary publications, the main directions of the creative path of the scientist, whom determined the electronic age of the time, are analyzed. Results. It is shown how timely V.A.

There are the author’s reminiscences about the meetings and communication for many years with academician Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev (1917–2000) – the scientist, the mathematician, the philosopher, the man of encyclopedic knowledges, foresaw the future. In the own scientific activities N. N.

This article is dedicated to the investigation of little-known facts of the life and the activity of the repressed principal of Saratov University G. K. Hvorostin, who headed the HEI in 1935–1937 years and during this short time transformed it from provincial, weaken (because of political "cleaning") educational institute into progressive scientific center.