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V.S. Ikonnikov made a review of the critiques of the apocryphal stories in works by Maximus the Greek. The paper objective is to investigate several texts by Maximus the Greek not included mostly into the author’s codes of the learned monk that expose apocryphal contents of certain narratives. Two writings- miniatures, “An answer about the heaven’s epistle” and “Tale of Jesus Christ’s priesthood”, are the theologian responses regarding apocryphal stories. In the first brief statement, Maximus the Greek simply denies the existence of the epistle granted by God. It is known that the original text of “Tale of Jesus Christ’s priesthood” is on manuscript margins of the mid XVI century kept in the Russian State Library (fond 173/I № 57) as an autograph comment for the apocrypha by Theodosius the Jew. In such a context, the literary monument has been preserved as part of other collections of the XVI-XVII centuries. In his tale, Maximus the Greek made three statements contesting Jesus Christ’s priesthood. “The epistle to a certain man” contains the critique of the collected works “Lucidarius” sent to a certain George and translated from German. The article contains assumptions regarding the addressee’s personality, and details of two versions of the Epistle, the Slavic and Troitsk versions, known as parts of the hand-written collections of the late XVI-XVII centuries. The main feature of the Troitsk version consists in inserts of quotations from Lucidarius into the author’s text, likely made by an editor from the XVII century: they accompany the statements of Maximus the Greek and ensure their perception by the reader. The versions differ by the content amount. Another anti-apocryphal writing by Maximus the Greek “The tale of handwritten recording of sins” has been preserved in two versions, its handwriting tradition has been described.

The article introduces a new ego-document - a notebook of the merchant Andrey Konovalov from Turinsk. The notes date back to the mid XVIII century and record mainly the dates of the merchant’s movement along the rivers of Siberia to buy and sell goods. The way laid through Tyumen, Tobolsk, Samorov Yam, Surgut, Narym, Yeniseisk and other cities, but the trip’s ultimate goal was Kyakhta - the Russian-Chinese trade center. The private fur trade was forbidden that time by the state, which sent its caravans to China. Obviously, Andrey Konovalov participated in smuggling furs, so some notes were made with cryptography - transliterated in Latin. Andrei Konovalov’s notebook is one of the earliest ego-documents related to the Siberian merchant class. The records reflect the difficulties of the river route, Baikal storms. There was Chinese fabrics’ trade besides furs. In addition to business records, the book contains several family dates, a list of purchases for oneself (including icons), and a rewritten news on the discovery of Dimitri of Rostov’s relics. The document is preserved as a manuscript in the collection of Vladimir Malyshev Archive of Ancient Relics at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The second part of the manuscript is a dictionary of foreign words appeared in the Russian language and drawn from various books of the XVIII century. As a whole, the manuscript demonstrates its owner as an educated person. The publication of Turinsk Merchant’s notebook is preceded by an introductory article, restoring the chronological sequence of the entries with relevant comments. The historical context for understanding the manuscript is provided by the writings of historians and travelers of the XVIII century: Gerard Friedrich Miller, Peter Simon Pallas, Alexander Radishchev; as well as works of modern historians. The notebook gives an idea of the goods exchange at the Russian-Chinese border in Kyakhta, allows to restore the portrait of the notes’ author to some extent, to see the circle of his interests.

The everyday context of Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is considered based on memoirs the first Siberian female academics - P.Y. Kochina, T.I. Zaslavskaya, N.I. Pritvits, R.L. Berg, O.N. Marchuk. The memoirs by M.I. Cheremisina are for the first time introduced into scientific circulation. The everyday life of Akademgorodok is studied from the point of view of women’s social memory using the methodologies of gender history, history of everyday life, history of memory. Important factors in rooting women scholars in the scientific town were prospects in research career, obtaining apartments preserving the capital’s residence, special food supply, freedom and democracy in communication and cultural life. The concentration of intellectuals in Akademgorodok, their daily close communication at work and leisure caused that, firstly, the habitual understanding of the service role of women was already «challenged» by the idea of equal status with men, and secondly, in the rather narrow and isolated space of human contacts of the town, the «load» on marital ties increased. At the background of the food and housing crisis in the country, the everyday life of Akademgorodok is assessed by female scientists in a highly positive way, up to the claims that this is the best place to live in. The idea of creating competitive advantages of the new city of science according to the recipe of using the «matrix» levers of the Soviet command and distribution system for the first decade turned out to be successful.

The Academy of Sciences has consistently maintained a strategy to study Siberia and the Far East throughout its almost three hundred year-old history. Establishing the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1957 according to principles innovative for that time meant a new stage in the state scientific policy implementation. For the first time in the science history, the Siberian Branch united the scientific institution network beyond the Urals both organizationally and territorially. The evolution of developing the academic institutions was from single hospitals to complex research centers of the Siberian Branch of the USSR/RAS Academy of Sciences. Along with the scientific institution creation in the region, the system of academic libraries has been developed to form scientific collections, provide information support for research and engineering, and preserve the historical, cultural and scientific heritage. Establishing and developing the research and publishing activity of SB RAS demonstrate interesting features that indicate, on the one hand, purposeful work to create a regional publishing structure meeting the requirements of the Academy of Sciences, and, on the other hand, the Branch leadership autonomy to realize the idea of creating own publishing house becoming more self-reliant to produce scientific editions. The paper gives comprehensive analysis of structural transformations carried out in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in different years, adaptation of means of research information support to changing conditions, which confirms a flexible policy pursued by heads of the department and scientific institutions implementing the transformation tasks in the Academy of Sciences centered on the needs and features of scientific development in the region. The developed information support system for research meets the requirements of the time and contributes to the Siberian science achievements.

The article is devoted to the results of a scientific conference at which the problems of working with ego-documents were discussed. The work of the conference included an educational and scientific block. On the basis of the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, a series of events was held, designed for a wide audience of high school students, students and teachers of Yekaterinburg universities. The scientific program, organized at the Sinara Center’s lecture hall, consisted of six sessions. The scientific discussion, which developed on the basis of the reports sounded, included a discussion of the issues of methodology, source study and harmonization of historical and literary traditions in the study of a wide range of sources united by the common concept of “ego-documents”.

Introduction. Modern humanity is at a crossroads to a new system. In this connection, a question is topical about the possibility of a transition to an egalitarian form of social organization and the role of education in this process. Various points of view about possible paths to an egalitarian society are present in science and are reflected in the content of education. The article presents the results of a critical analysis of the ontology and the theoretical and methodological arsenal of the theory of modernization and the neo-institutional concept of a world culture in the field of solving the problems of modern education, and also shows the advantages of the world-system approach. Methodology. The concept of “paradigm” (T. Kuhn) and the idea of I. Lakatos that a paradigm has an advantage if the research program formed within its framework has a large empirical area are used as a methodological basis. Discussion. The modernization theory and the neo-institutional concept of a world culture are conflicting paradigms regarding the world-systems approach. Modernization theory proclaims the values of an egalitarian society, but due to the limited ontology and theoretical and methodological arsenal, it does not provide an opportunity to see, and, consequently, solve the real problems of the modern world and education that contradict these values. The criticism of the neo-institutional concept of a world culture that exists in scientific publications makes it possible to raise the question of the regressive nature of its research program. Conclusion. The theory of modernization and the neo-institutional concept of a world culture are Eurocentric concepts, whose supporters describe the process of spreading egalitarian values, but both directions are reflections of the ideology of the modern world-system and legitimize its expansion.

Introduction. The second part of the article “On the way to the health of society” discusses the problems of finding common ontological and epistemological grounds for substantiating the possibility of forming healthy, harmonious, balanced anthroposocial systems ranging from the initial element of society (man) and up to the noosphere as a healthy planetary sociosphere. The urgency of these problems is increasing due to the development of increasingly large-scale social conflicts - from domestic to global and with the need to find ways of social creation on the way to perfection of individual and social life. Methodology. To consider the problems of a healthy, balanced existence of society, in order to eliminate various social conflicts and pathologies, the following methods are applied: system-philosophical, dialectical methodology; principles of integrity (holism) as opposed to partialism in understanding social reality; applied scientific-theoretical, comparative and axiological methods of cognition. Discussion. The problem of the general ontological foundations of the existence of the World, which are also designated as the Ends of the Universe, is discussed. They are used to construct, deductively, general logical bases for the analysis of social systems - healthy, unhealthy, pathogenic. Attention is drawn to the concentrating substructures of sociosystems represented by the legal system, which determines the overall structural-dynamic, legal-political organization of society. A general classification of ecosociosystems is constructed from the standpoint of the organization of harmonious life on the basis of systemic philosophy and principles of dialectics, which can be used in the future for the practice of social transformations along the path of creation and perfection in the strategy of building a noospheric civilization. Conclusion. The initial foundations of the sociospheric approach to the analysis of the problems of ensuring the health of society are proposed, as one of the possible options for finding ways of social harmony, based on achieving a balance of individual, interpersonal, social, socio-ecological and socio-natural relations in a globalizing society.

Introduction. The paper is devoted to the study of a topical problem in the sphere of interests of social science scientific directions and concerns socio-philosophical understanding of the features of socialization in the conditions of the dominance of the latest information technologies. The purpose of the study is an analytical review of new conceptual aspects devoted to the study of chaotic information flows and the transformation of traditional epistemological mechanisms that hinder full-fledged socialization. The methodology is based on understanding the essence of socialization through the prism of a dialectical approach to the tetrad: information - understanding - knowledge - socialization. This approach takes into account not only the external side of social changes, which are often the result of another technological breakthrough, but also the transformation of the entire epistemological toolkit. Discussion. The activity of a cognizing person is always determined by vital goals, which are rationally meaningful needs that contribute to the formation of a subject of a specific social community. In the paper, knowledge is considered as the basis of socialization, which activates cognition in all its manifestations, including those in demand in the process of socialization. Knowledge fixed at a specific level of the cognitive process can only be modern, correlating with the interests of the individual and society. Conclusion. The latest information technologies determine a new system of interactions between the theory of cognition and the processes of socialization. There is a need to develop non-traditional methodological mechanisms that contribute to human socialization. Of fundamental importance in this case is the comprehension in the process of socialization of information flows, which do not always become potential knowledge, but significantly affect a person’s ideas. An information resource that has not reached the level of established knowledge not only transforms a person’s ideas, but also changes the processes of his socialization. Such tendencies violate the traditional epistemological tools, blocking the process of forming adequate knowledge about the world and about man.

Introduction. Since the end of February 2022, Russia has entered the most difficult phase of economic transformation associated with the shock destruction of global production supply chains. Our country simultaneously faced three most difficult tasks: firstly, the need to urgently increase its own domestic production potential and simultaneously transfer the economy, in fact, to the mobilization rails; secondly, the need to provide the mobilization economy with the necessary number of qualified personnel capable of making this transition; thirdly, to increase the innovative potential of the Russian economy to ensure the technological security of the country in the event of further strengthening of its isolation. In fact, Russia should develop and implement an educational model capable of ensuring the sustainable maintenance and development of the national human capital as soon as possible. The aim of the article is to analyze the impact of the existing Russian model of education on the reproduction of national human capital and formulate the principles of creating a new education system. Methodology. The article is based on the analysis of the basic principles of the liberal model of education described by V. Humbolt, its evolution is considered in the works of D. Newman, K. N. Wentzel, B. Kimbаll, G. Gutek, A. Ozmon, K. Zenker, D. Becker and others. The modern interpretation of the liberal model of education and its applicability to modern Russian realities based on the works of A. L. Kudrin, V. A. Kurenny and others are described. The consequences of the influence of the modern educational model on the reproduction of national human capital are determined. Discussion. The adoption by Russia in the 90s of the twentieth century of the existing model of education led to a significant decrease in the labor and innovation potential of the national human capital. Now it is necessary to create a nationally oriented model of education based on the principles of ensuring national industrial and intellectual sovereignty. Conclusion. The national education system is one of the most important institutions responsible for the reproduction of the national human capital. Under the circumstances, the formation of new principles of building education, focused on strengthening the real sector of the economy, can become the basis of sustainable economic development and sovereignty of the country.

Introduction. Under the conditions of virtualization of the educational space, there is a change in the relationship between the subjects of educational interaction. The paper presents the results of the conducted philosophical analysis, which made it possible to identify the causes of the gap between the personality of the subject and its digital representation. Methodology. The work uses a socio-philosophical and pedagogical approach, which made it possible to identify the conditionality of the processes of development of the education system by the external environment in which the transformation of forms and types of communication takes place, to determine the reasons for which there is a mismatch between the real and virtual personality in the digital educational environment and to identify the key elements of the organization of educational activities that contribute to minimizing the emerging gap in the changed socio-cultural conditions. Discussion. Interpersonal communication of two fully developed subjects, arising in the process of transferring knowledge in the form of information, is one of the effective ways of socialization. The digital representation of the personality of a participant in the educational process arises under the influence of information and communication technologies as a response to the uncertainty characteristic of the virtual space. Together with the possibility of self-construction, this feature creates isolation from the real personality of the individual, partially eliminates the system of formal social statuses, which means the rejection of the usual grounds for social self-categorization. Conclusion. As a result of the analysis, a set of individual traits was revealed, which are based to varying degrees on his real personal characteristics that have a direct impact on activities in a virtual environment. It has been established that a significant gap between the digital personality and the real one creates its constructed character and the desire for anonymity, which allows the user not to limit himself in the formation of features that do not correspond to his real personality.