I. I. Mochalov. V. I. Vernadsky and the Problem of Consciousness

From the History of Science

G. E. Kurtik. Time measurement and calendars in Ancient Mesopotamia (The Sumerian period)
Rip Bulkeley. First sightings of the mainland of Antarctica: towards a critical analysis

Social History of Science

G. G. Krivosheina. «The Society of Destroyers of Natural Science», or «The Moscow Academy of Sciences»? (The 150th anniversary of the Society of Devotees of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnography)

Lessons from History

V. A. Shirokova, V. A. Snytko, V. M. Chesnov. History, current state, and future prospects for the development of the Tikhvin waterway system

Materials for the Biographies of Scientists and Engineers

S. S. Ilizarov. Unknown regarding little known: T. I. Rainov and V. I. Vernadsky

Brief Communications

A. E. Bobkov, I. S. Purtov, A. I. Shurov, D. Yu. Shcherbinin. Virtual reconstruction of the history of Soviet and Russian manned spaceflights

Book Reviews

S. S. Ilizarov. Russian historiography of the history of science and technology: A chronicle, 1901–2011 (Moscow, 2012), reviewed by V. P. Borisov
G. P. Matvievskaia, ed. The life and science of P. I. Rychkov. 3 vols. (Orenburg, 2008–2012), reviewed by N. N. Shevliuk

Academic Life

S. S. Demidov, M. A. Dubovitskaia. International conference on «Arithmetic as Geometry: Parshin Fest»
V. G. Smirnov. The 23rd Meeting of the St. Petersburg section of the Russian National Committee for the History of Science and Technology on «The Russian Academy of Sciences and international contacts in science and culture in the 19th – early 20th centuries»
G. P. Aksenov, O. S. Romanova, V. A. Shirokova, V. I. Onoprienko. International conference on «V. I. Vernadsky as historian of science»
V. I. Vernadsky Nongovernmental Ecological Foundation gives awards to researchers from the Institute for History of Science and Technology