General Problems in the History of Science

S. S. Demidov. The role of general worldview in the development of mathematical knowledge: concerning a remark by René Taton
L. A. Griffen. Is the objective periodization of the history of technology possible? A critical analysis

From the History of Science

Yu. V. Chaikovsky. Who initiated and designed the Great Northern Expedition?
G. A. Vlasova. The history of oceanographic investigations in the Sea of Okhotsk from the seventeenth century to the present
M. G. Tsinkoburova, I. V. Bodylevskaia, D. V. Bezgodova. Unknown chapters from the history of paleontology instruction at the Mining Institute

Social History of Science

A. A. Kas’yan. The history of one discussion: Cybernetics in the context of a provincial college

From the History of Technology

E. P. Striukova. A. I. Kitov and the development of the concept of automatic control systems
A. V. Kuteinikov, V. V. Shilov. The last attempt to rehabilitate the project of the National System of Automatic Control of the Economy (OGAS): A. I. Kitov’s 1985 letter to M. S. Gorbachev

Materials for the Biographies of Scientists and Engineers

N. N. Osokina. New biographical information about M. V. Lomonosov from the collections of the State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg

Discussions, Meetings and Interviews

«Interest in work should be placed above pecuniary interests» (interview by Yu. M. Baturin with the President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute of Electric Welding, Academician B. E. Paton)

Brief Communications

S. S. Semenov. Television for military purposes: P. P. Khandozhko and his project of «electro-radio-vision-at-a-distance»

Book Reviews

Manuel Silva Suárez, ed. Técnica e Ingeniería en Españа (Zaragoza, Madrid, 2004–2011), reviewed by I. D. Guzevich and Ana Cardoso de Matos
V. I. Onoprienko. Yanshin’s Century. 100th Centennial of Prominent Geologist and Ecologist of XXth Century (Kiev, 2011), reviewed by O.A. Valkova
V. A. Gurkin, ed. The Noble Deal of Agriculture: The Hundreth Anniversary of the Founding of the Ul’ianovsk Institute of Scientific Agriculture (Ul’ianovsk, 2010), reviewed by O. Yu. Elina
V. I. Onoprienko. Science as Calling (Kiev, 2011), reviewed by E. I. Bayuk.
E. I. Kolchinsky (ed.). Biology in St. Petersburg, 1703–2008: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary (St. Petersburg, 2011), reviewed by L. V. Chesnova and B. R. Striganova

Academic Life

B. S. Sokolov. Paleontology and the historical study of the biosphere (Opening Address at the 56th Meeting of the Paleontological Society, St. Petersburg, April 2013)
M. V. Shleeva. A meeting with S. M. Shakhrai, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Historical Society, at the Editorial Office of VIET
N. A. Ozerova, A. V. Sobisevich, V. A. Shirokova. A complex expedition
on the study of historical waterways (29 July – 13 August 2012). The Volga – Dnieper section of the ancient trade route «From the Varangians to the Greeks»
I. G. Malakhova. The Russian theme at the 34st International Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia
A. A. Kotomina. The round table «Cultural History of Technology»