EVACUATED SCIENTISTS IN KAZAKHSTAN DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941-1945: HISTORY AND FATE
Zh. A. ERMEKBAY
Kazakhstan of Lomonosov Moscow State University, 11, Kazhimukan Str., Nur-Sultan, 010010, Republic of Kazakhstan
Keywords: Great Patriotic War, USSR Academy of Sciences, academician, corresponding member, Kazakh Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences, A. A. Grigoriev, L. S. Shtern, A. M. Pankratova
Abstract
The article is devoted to evacuated scientists who worked in the USSR Academy of Sciences, universities, institutes and technical schools. Based on archival and other materials, the paper shows the research activities of employees of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and higher educational institutions during the Second World War. It describes the scientific and social activities of some outstanding scientists who were evacuated to Alma-Ata and Borovoe resort in the context of their fundamental research. The study methodological basis includes scientific principles of historism and consistency based on reliable sources. The activity of evacuated scientists is studied in the historical context of the war period. The consistency principle is aimed to consider the investigated object related to the Soviet society of the 1940s, including the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Kazakh SSR, party and Soviet bodies, educational and scientific institutions. Scientific results are predetermined by the need to rethink the Soviet experience of evacuating scientific and educational resources from the USSR European part to Kazakhstan taking into account new documents. This should be a step to study facts and events of the history of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
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