The 100th Anniversary of the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences in the Background of the World and Russian Tendencies in Geography

The Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), was founded in Petrograd in 1918 as the Industrial-Geographical Department of the Commission for Studying Natural Production Forces. In 1934, it was moved to Moscow and renamed the Institute of Physical Geography of the USSR Academy of S...

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Published inHerald of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 509 - 520
Main Authors Kotlyakov, V. M., Solomina, O. N., Tishkov, A. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.11.2018
Springer Nature B.V
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Chemistry/Food Science
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Environment
Geography
History of Academic Institutions
Life Sciences
Social Sciences
Traditions
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR
academic geography
geographic information research
Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
modeling
political geography
geography
prediction
climate
remote methods
cartography
monitoring
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Summary:The Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), was founded in Petrograd in 1918 as the Industrial-Geographical Department of the Commission for Studying Natural Production Forces. In 1934, it was moved to Moscow and renamed the Institute of Physical Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences and then (in 1936) the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Its history included all stages of the development of the national geography, beginning from the traditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the concept of geography as a descriptive science was given up and its branch specialization began, until the formation of geography of the 21st century as a paradigm and synthetic discipline with great prospects for developing knowledge. The modern geography and the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences use a wide range of interdisciplinary remote and field methods, the latest tools, and laboratory analyses to understand the quickly changing world, its nature, the population, and the economy retrospectively, at the present time, and in the future. The results of the research performed at the Institute was published in the Vestnik RAS periodical many times.
ISSN:1019-3316
1555-6492
DOI:10.1134/S1019331618060096