Based on unpublished sources from the Central Archive of the FSS of Russia, the article examines in detail the case of the counter-revolutionary «Volga Spy Organization» in the Red Army, investigated by the Cheka in 1919. This plot found a fragmentary reflection in historiography. The purpose of this work is to eliminate this gap. The theoretical basis of the study is a combination of the anthropological approach, problematic and biographical methods. As part of this case, along with other persons, several students of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army were arrested, who were suspected of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. The course of the operational development of the case, the conduct of the investigation, the composition of the defendants (among them were the brothers Mikhail and Nikolai Tukhachevsky, who escaped arrest), were analyzed, the features of the sentences passed were discussed. 

The article reveals the content of state regulation of the activities of public libraries in Russia in the first half of the 19th century. It is shown that the government showed interest in involving the public in the development of the cultural life of urban centers, and therefore created relatively comfortable legal conditions and an organizational environment for the work of public libraries.
In the 1830, the authorities tried, using bureaucratic methods, to introduce a public initiative to create public libraries in provincial cities. In response to the proposal of the head of the Free Economic Society P. S. Mordvinova, the Minister of Internal Affairs attracted the heads of regions — governors — to create a kind of library partnership. Local authorities, for their part, had to guarantee legal status to provincial libraries, provide them with organizational assistance, and representatives of the public, for their part, had to accept funding and carry out ongoing library work.
The government established a licensing procedure for opening public libraries, which received legal status and the ability to independently stock book depositories. In an effort to prevent public libraries from becoming centers of anti-government propaganda, the authorities exercised administrative and police supervision over them.
The results of the implementation of the ministerial project turned out to be modest: instead of the planned fifty-two, only twenty-nine public libraries were opened, most of which ceased to exist within 10–15 years. However, the general principles of state regulation of the activities of provincial libraries were extended to all other public libraries in Russia. In the middle of the 19th century, a library boom began in the country, which was caused by numerous public initiatives from below.

The article analyzes the history of the creation and development from the founding in 1973 to the present day of the School Museum of Military Glory of the 75th Guards Brigade, located in the Secondary School of the city of Omsk No. 41. The research was carried out on the basis of museum materials and documents of the veteran organization of the military unit, stored in the Historical archive of the Omsk Region. An assessment of the experience and social significance of the patriotic work carried out in the museum is given. Particular attention is paid to the comparative historical study of the forms of work on the patriotic education of youth in the Soviet and modern Russian periods of national history. In conclusion, recommendations are given for improving the work of the museum.

The article is devoted to the history of the functioning of the movement «Democratic Russia» and, first of all, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of this structure. The aim of the work is to identify the features of the political activity of the movement «Democratic Russia» in 1990–1992 in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The tasks of the work are related to the identification of the most significant Nizhny Novgorod representatives of the movement, as well as the causes of splits in the organization. It is revealed that the reasons for the weakening and extinction of the movement «Democratic Russia» are almost the same both in the center and at the regional level.

The purpose of the study conducted by the author is to determine a number of ethnic, economic and political factors. Factors that required the elaboration of the idea of creating territorial autonomy of the Siberian Tatars in the north of the Omsk and south of the Tyumen regions of the Russian Federation as an alternative to the growth of separatist insistence. At the same time, special attention is paid to the study of the views and activities of representatives of government bodies, socio-political organizations and subjects of economic relations in Western Siberia. The author’s research is conducted using a wide range of sources: documents of authorities and public organizations, reference materials, printed publications of authorities and public organizations, published memoirs of participants in the movement for the revival of Siberian Tatars and data obtained during meetings with them, materials of journalistic investigations. In the course of the research, the author turned to the method of historicism, in which synchronistic, statistical and comparative historical methods are used. The results of the study are the recognition of the inexpediency of creating the territorial autonomy of the Siberian Tatars based on ethnic factors and its complexity in view of the economic and political situation prevailing in the Russian Federation in the 1990.

The article examines the problematic issue of the nature of the relationship between the palace commandant V. A. Dedyulin and representatives of right-wing political forces at the beginning of the 20th century. The purpose of the article is to determine what was the basis of interaction between V. A. Dedyulin and the right — ideological unity or mutually beneficial cooperation? The sources of the study are both published and unpublished documents, in particular, personal and business correspondence of the palace commandant from the collections of the Russian State Historical Archive. The idea of V. A. Dedyulin, established in historiography, as an ideological sympathizer of the monarchist camp is criticized and the liberal nature of the ideas of the head of the imperial guard is substantiated. The article concludes that the relationship between V. A. Dedyulin and the right was built on a pragmatic basis and was more likely to represent cooperation based on mutual benefit rather than ideological unity.

The article analyzes the scale of the influence of foreign capital on the development of the commercial fleet of the Russian Empire on the eve of the First World War and the resulting restrictions on the use of civilian vessels at the beginning of the armed conflict. On the basis of previously published statistical data and archival documents introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, various degrees of dependence on the import of spare parts of sea and river merchant fleets, as well as the level of satisfaction of the country’s needs achieved by them, are demonstrated. The main manifestations of the critical dependence of Russian merchant ships on a number of German-made components are highlighted. The author concludes that the seemingly catastrophic situation of the maintenance of foreign-made ships was actually resolved, including thanks to the actions of the Russian government and the establishment of a channel for the supply of foreign equipment to domestic ports.

In the article has been attempted to consider the position of the Russian Supply Committee in America, the problems and the state of its structural units during the significant 1917 year of last active cooperation with the Allied powers in military procurement during the First World War. As the Russian Supply Committee is currently presented fragmentally in the scientific historical literature, the author has identified the following purpose of this article — to reduce and expand the available material on the activities of the Russian Supply Committee into a unified picture, paying special attention to the perception of its activities in the American press, the problem of transportation, the issue of the introduction of liquidation policy in relation to purchase order, efforts to purchase transport property. The article is written on the basis of unpublished sources (materials of the office work of the Russian Supply Committee, correspondence of General N. M. Khrabrov with the Main Directorate for Foreign Supply and the authorized Ambassador from the Russian government B. A. Bakhmetyev, orders and instructions of the Main Directorate for Foreign Supply, materials of the Special Investigative Commission) identified in the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive. As a result, the author concluded that in the conditions of political instability and stagnant organizational and structural problems, the Russian Supply Committee could not properly resolve the issue of purchasing military property on the American market.

In September-October 2023 in the Hermitage-Siberia center of the Omsk Region Museum of Fine Arts. M. A. Vrubel hosted the exhibition «Siberian Seasons of the Leningrad Philharmonic. To the 80th anniversary of the 1943 tour»; the project had great public outcry. The exhibition featured unique documents, restored at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, related to the stay and creative activities of the Philharmonic in the Siberian rear. A conversation with Yu. Z. Kantor, the curator of this museum project, that took place in October 2023, is devoted to its significance and substantive features.

The formation of the Soviet social and political system was accompanied by the internationalization of education and the development of regional historical science. In the course of education, not only the socio-economic history of the region is studied, but also its integration into the state.
The purpose of the article is to identify the impact of socio-economic and political processes on the research activities Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Kolesnikov A. D.
The conclusion is beyond doubt — A. D. Kolesnikov is the creator of a separate direction for the study of settlement and economic development of Siberia in the XVI–XIX centuries.
This personality is interesting because his professional formation coincided with the development of the Soviet state: a student in the pre–war years, a soldier who passed two wars, a manager, a witness to the development of Siberia in the 1950s–1980s and a teacher of a higher educational institution. We managed to show how socio-political changes influenced scientific and educational activities.

This analytical review focuses on the work of Tuvinian researchers on the causes and consequences of political purges in Tuva during the existence of the Republic as a formally sovereign state. The authors of the book consistently reconstruct the main cycle of socio-political events in the region, figuring out how the experience and practices of revolutionary Russia passed on to Tuvinian soil. The ways and peculiarities of promotion of new leading cadres in the Republic and development of inter-clan struggle for power, formation of unusual party-state system, which allowed its leaders to widely use punitive measures against their opponents are considered. The reviewed work vividly presents historical portraits of major leaders of Tuva, demonstrates methods and ways of their promotion to political avantgarde, as well as the tragic end of careers of many of them.
The published book is evaluated as a major contribution to the historiography of Tuva, thanks to new facts and interpretations of socio-political events in Central Asia in the first half of the 20th century.

Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions gave rise to controversy between semantic and pragmatic accounts of referentially used descriptions. Kaplan adumbrated and Marti elaborated in detail a semantic account that assimilates referentially used definite descriptions with proper names in the sense of the theory of direct reference. I argue that the evidence Kaplan-Marti theory relies on is inappropriate, and conclude that KaplanMarti theory has no advantage over the pragmatic account of referential use in Donnellan’s sense.

Vadim Valeryevich Vasilyev is Doctor of Philosophy Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, and cofounder and member of the Academic Council of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Research at the Philosophy Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The talk is dedicated to the specifics of analytic philosophy in Russia.

The essay raises the problem of the value of life. For living organisms like us, it appears to be an unconditionally good. It seems that the necessary grounds for such an attitude must be in the ontological structure of life itself. But an impartial analysis shows that the value of life is something external to life itself.

The paper presents a defense of the standard psychological theory of personal identity against Mark Walker’s criticism of it. Walker claims that the conceptual tools of standard psychological theory of personal identity are insufficient to solve the problematic cases of branching in the context of moral and legal responsibility questions, and argues in favor of an approach to these problems that involves the type/token distinction. In the current paper I argue against Walker that the approach he suggests is untenable, and that the conceptual tools of standard psychological theory are sufficient to provide an adequate analysis of the cases mentioned.

The article is devoted to the empirical content characteristics of the digital environment affecting the functioning and development of regional markets for personal services. The list of indicators reflecting the formation of the digital environment has been clarified and trends in their changes in the framework of the implementation of national projects of the Russian Federation have been identified. It is established that the digital environment contributes to the evolution of telecommunication services that allow economic agents of regional markets of personal services to communicate through personal services. Consequently, it becomes possible, for example, the development of healthcare with the help of personalized medicine or, for example, the use of personalized learning opportunities, etc. Also, measures to regulate regional markets for personal services in the digital environment are considered and examples of regional practices are given. The authors emphasize such a major trend in the development of regional consumer services markets as digitalization, and, in turn, it allows us to identify factors contributing to the development of regional markets for personal services.

The article discusses various approaches used for labor market research, analyzes their advantages and disadvantages, which makes it possible to substantiate the institutional approach as the most relevant for studying the improvement of the regional labor market for specialists in modern conditions of technological transformation based on digitalization. The result of the study is presented, which is the development of an organizational and managerial mechanism in the form of a comprehensive system of management stages, including certain organizational and economic activities implemented at all levels of management of the regional labor market of specialists as a specific category of workers.

The article examines the motives and socio-professional orientations of young people in the labor market of the region. The relevance of the study of this topic is caused by a fairly high proportion of young people among the ablebodied population of Russia (about 35 %), as well as the strategic role of youth in the economic development of the country. Empirical data are obtained as a result of a survey conducted on the basis of the 2021 study in ten regions of the Siberian Federal District. Its main purpose is to assess the factors and motives influencing the choice of profession and the beginning of work. The reasons for the choice of an educational institution and a place of work by young people, their salary expectations and the main directions of the development of the system of employment of graduates of educational institutions are analyzed. The research materials can be used in the educational process, in the system of professional orientation, by managers and specialists of enterprises, researchers.

The relevance of the study is due to the need for Russia to actively enter the new post-industrial technological paradigm of the sixth generation, which requires not only an infrastructural basis, but also a scientific and managerial potential. These circumstances, characterized by high rates of change, actualize the tasks of rethinking the value orientations of the management of industrial enterprises, especially in terms of technologies, methods and management tools, focused on the priorities of innovative development, which are reasonably considered as the managerial basis for technological modernization of the economy based on innovative solutions. The purpose of the work is to assess the degree of readiness for the transformation of management systems in the context of the transition to the sixth technological paradigm in the context of studying the innovative activity of industrial entities in the field of developed production technologies, including integrated management and control (advanced methods of organization and production management). The article examines dynamic, structural, trend qualitative variations of the developed advanced production technologies in the Russian Federation for 2000–2021 based on a significant amount of statistical data. The authors concluded that there are positive growth dynamics of developed advanced production technologies, qualitative structural shifts towards Russian developments.

The purpose of the article is to consider the concept of hybridization economics, what forms it takes, how the growth of hybridization rates will affect business processes using examples of complex work with intellectually capacious processes and products. After COVID-19, the main characteristic of the modern economy is hybridization. In theory, it is a combination of several subjects, processes, and technologies. The author identifies several stages of hybridization. The first is the use of circuitry to control economic processes. At this stage, a person adapts to the technique. The second stage is the appearance of human dimension. Equipment and technical products in their parameters should be commensurate with the person, convenient for him to use. In contrast to the first stage, a person subordinates technology and digital systems using them to strengthen himself. Hybrid offices are used in the economy. The next stage is management and interaction with intellectually capacious objects. It is predicted in the near future, according to various sources, the transition to the next stage — the hybridization of property.

This article is devoted to checking the possibility of using business survey data surveys to nowcasting of Russian manufacturing output: analysis of business cycles and short-term forecasting (1 month ahead). The study uses data from business surveys of the Federal State Statistics Service, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and S&P Global. The results of these surveys are published promptly (20 days or more ahead of the release of official statistics) and are freely available. The study shows that the indicators of the Federal State Statistics Service (economic situation, number of employees, business confidence index, output, demand, export) allow to increase the accuracy of forecasts by 21–39 % and have a high correlation with business cycles of the manufacturing industry. In general, the use of most business survey indicators improves short-term forecasts of manufacturing output, more than half of the indicators have a correlation coefficient greater than 0,8 with the business cycles of this sector of the economy.