THE FIELD SEASON OF GEOLOGISTS AND PRACTICE OF MOBILITY: ON THE HISTORY
OF MINERALOGICAL RESEARCH OF KHIBINY TUNDRA Cover Image

ПОЛЕВОЙ СЕЗОН ГЕОЛОГА И ПРАКТИКИ МОБИЛЬНОСТИ: К ИСТОРИИ МИНЕРАЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ ХИБИНСКИХ ТУНДР
THE FIELD SEASON OF GEOLOGISTS AND PRACTICE OF MOBILITY: ON THE HISTORY OF MINERALOGICAL RESEARCH OF KHIBINY TUNDRA

Author(s): Olga Vasilievna Zmeeva
Subject(s): History
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: mobility; field research; scientific expeditions; A. E. Fersman; development of the North

Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with the problem of mobility of research units and scientific expeditions on the Kola Peninsula in the 1920s.In conditions of the poorly functioning railway communications between the central and remote areas of the country, the lack ofinfrastructure, domestic and social discomfort in places of expeditions the participants of the expeditions had to maintain mobilityand carry out scientific research. The problem is considered on the example of geological and mineralogical expeditions of the 1920sconducted in the central part of the Kola Peninsula (Central Lapland). The research is based on the memoirs about the first trips writtenby geologists of exploratory and scientific expeditions performed in the 1920s; expeditions’ essays by A. E. Fersman; journal andnewspaper publications; interviews with local historians and researchers of the scientific heritage left by A. E. Fersman. The articleexamines the practice of participants’ mobility in geological expeditions, the involvement of local workers and indigenous people inresearch transitions, social adaptation, and development of the sociocultural space in the field.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 5 (174)
  • Page Range: 91-96
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian
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