From the history of the Department of scientific and technical archives of MGIAI – IAI RGGU: Personalities (1969 – early 1990s)

Abstract

The aim of the work is to study the history of the creation and activity of the Department of scientific and technical archives of MGIAI – IAI between 1969 and early 1990 through the prism of the study of the biographies of the first generation scholars. The article discusses the conditions for the formation of social demand for the development of educational and scientific direction connected with scientific and technical documents and archives. The study was based on the personnel documents from the archives ofthe Russian State University for the Humanities (prof. A.A. Kuzin, prof. N.G. Filippov, prof. K.B. Gel’man-Vinogradov, assoc. prof. P.S. Preobrazhenskaya). In the professional biographies of the scholars, the general and individual creative aspects of their activity have been revealed; their influence on the formation of the scientific school of scientific and technical documents and archives has been traced.
The work is built in the context of the historiographical approach to the archival administration of scientific and technical documents. The main components of this educational and scientific knowledge have been highlighted. The contribution of the Department’s staff to its creation has been determined, particularly, the interdisciplinary character, the combination of archival and historical-technical approaches, the study of the institutional forms of scientific and technical activities in Russia, the construction of the methodological base of documentary and special archival science, the identification of historical and cultural properties of scientific and technical documents. The process of special archival knowledge formation reflected in educational-methodical and research works of the teachers of the Department has been traced.
Conclusions are drawn about the dependence of the development of the scientific school of archival science of scientific and technical documents on the professional, creative and personal qualities of the team of teachers of the Department of scientific and technical archives, as well as about the completion  of the period of development of the Department of scientific and technical archives within the frames of the traditional domestic archival science in the early 1990s.