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The Round Table “NEP - Results and Prospects of Study” discussion was held on September 17, 2021, during the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Russian Economic Reforms in the Regional Dimension”. Its speakers raised the issue of the NEP prospects besides the historiography problems. V. Rynkov pointed out that the myth about NEP as the “golden age” of Russian economy was created in the late 1980s - early 1990s. Further research of the problem led to the myth deconstruction. NEP was accompanied by a series of crises, and reconstruction processes in a number of regions and industries were not completed. V. Il’inykh concluded that NEP had not created effective mechanisms to overcome rural poverty. Modernization of the country was impossible based on the small-scale peasant economy. V. Kondrashin did not rule out that agriculture could continue developing successfully on the peasant economy basis, had the state support not been curtailed. L. Borodkin supposed that problems of developing the agrarian sector were related to state policy that hindered the agricultural development. Its liberalization, continuation of NEP could lead to sustainable and dynamic development. V. Klistorin pointed out that the decision to wind up NEP, since in 1925, had a political character and was not directly related to economy. I. Poberezhnikov emphasized that NEP was a forced compromise by the Bolshevik government, which had to be curtailed at the end. G. Kornilov and A. Kilin defined NEP as a complex of social and economic reforms, which were carried out in the form of an experiment. V. Zinovyev believed that China and other countries used the NEP experience. A. Nikolaev called on researchers to study NEP in frameworks of longer economic cycles. As the discussion outcome, it has been concluded that it is premature to sum up NEP study results, and its historiography is at the next stage of thematic and methodological bifurcation.

A significant historiographical problem is the historical and economic research formation in the Novosibirsk Scientific Center. The article shows the effect of Vladimir Alexandrovich Lamin’s works on studying the economic history. V. A. Lamin devoted several decades to a key scientific problem of the development and implementation of transport development projects in the northern and eastern regions of Russia. The article analyzes in detail the development of research approaches due to the original source base, appeal to the historical geography tools for the historical material analysis, intention to study key historical sources in a wide chronological and thematic context including cross-country comparisons. The important element of V.A. Lamin’s style is the aspiration to consider transport different types in their relationship, to indicate the influence of technological breakthroughs on the construction pace of new communication lines, organization of cargo flows, and the transport industry economy in general. Tracing the problem field expansion of V. A. Lamin’s studies of the economic history of Siberia, the author notes that, without leaving an increasingly detailed research of transport projects, he turnet to a retrospective analysis of the most important resource sectors of the economy of the eastern borders - gold mining (for the XIX and early XX centuries), and oil and gas production - for the second half of the XX century. The article describes the results of joint research projects carried out by historians and economists with V. A. Lamin’s participation. The last thirty years, V. A. Lamin aimed his fellow historians at expanding the problem field of studying projects for the natural resources and industrial development, their practical implementation including social and demographic consequences. As a result of scientific and organizational efforts by V. A. Lamin, the historians have comprehended a huge amount of factual materials, formed a major scientific direction, and created fundamental collective works of an interdisciplinary nature.

The article discusses the problems of interaction between the Military and Mining Departments during the military order implementation in the early XIX century. Applying the historical-genetic and problem-chronological methods the author identifies the causes of contradictions between the Ural enterprises leadership and military inspectors, who controlled the quality of military products at state plants and wharves of the Urals; shows the main stages of the conflict development. The author notes that contradictions between representatives of the Mining and Military departments during acceptance of military products arose early at the beginning of the XIX century. Military inspectors reported about the unsatisfactory quality of products of mining plants, as well as the violation of deadlines to deliver products. Mining officials, in turn, were dissatisfied with receivers’ slow work and a large number of rejected products. As a result, to solve these problems, production acceptance rules were elaborated. They were approved in 1804 and supplemented in 1808. These documents established the technical requirements for military products and regulated the procedure of inspectors and mining administration interaction. However, in ten years since their adoption, the number of complaints on actions of artillery officials grew. It was caused by a significant increase of military order volumes, and the plants could not implement them. In most cases, conflicts between the mining administration and inspectors were quickly resolved. However, in the early 1820s these contradictions escalated, when N. R. Mamyshev, the head of Goroblagodatsky plants, and Y. M. Bikbulatov, the main receiver, entered into a dispute over accepting shells and other military products. The disagreement between them was caused by unsatisfactory quality of mining plant products (iron, shells, guns), as well as the working procedure of military inspectors. The great scale of disagreement forced the leadership of the Mining and Artillery Departments to intervene and send their representatives to the Urals. The conflict was to resolved after the arrival of the Mining Department commission, as well as I. A. Neratov, Orenburg artillery district head, to the Urals in 1825.

The main study objective is to identify the features of implementing measures of the supreme power in the middle 1950s - early 1960s initiated by Soviet scientists-economists, supporters of development under conditions of state and group ownership of market relations. The article substantiates the thesis that the “liberal reformist course” realization led to a significant transformation of the existing agrarian system. Based on the analysis of the peculiarities of the collective farm-state farm system functioning during I.V. Stalin’s reign, and relying on new factual material, the author reveals the specifics of post-Stalinist reforming the procurement and pricing mechanism in agriculture, the system of material and technical services for collective farms, the procedure of functioning of the collective farm self-government, and analyzes the anti-crisis initiatives of the supreme power and scientists-economists in the first half of the 1960s. The paper argues that during the period under review, the Stalinist agrarian model foundations were dismantled - natural tax procurements, the system of low-paid forced labor of collective farmers, machine and tractor stations. The transition to purchasing agricultural products at uniform prices took place. The guaranteed cash wages were introduced, the collective farms received ownership of agricultural machinery. However, realizing the “liberal reformist direction” of the agrarian policy was hampered by the parallel implementation of Khrushchev’s leftist reformist initiatives, which provided establishing the domination of state ownership over group and personal ones, forced industrialization of agriculture, and using mobilization tools to solve production tasks. Therefore, the most important agricultural measure - MTS reorganization - was carried out in a short time without taking into account the real capabilities of farms by N.S. Khrushchev’s demand, and therefore did not lead to the high economic results predicted by its developers in short terms.

The designated transition of libraries to the communicative development paradigm implies the use of concepts of “space”, “library space”, “cultural and information space”. Analysis of interaction and mutual influence of the library environment and humanitarian space in Novosibirsk shows that, according to multiplicity of the city images formed for relatively short period, its library environment developed quite quickly as a multi-level structure borrowing resources, creating a variety of specializations and directions. Libraries have ensured orderliness and structuring of resources, gave solidity and stability to the emerging information space of the megalopolis.

The paper analyzes the degree of involving the book culture of the indigenous and small peoples of Siberia and the Far East into the electronic information environment by its presentation on websites of at local libraries different level. It overviews modern Russian publications on the issue of studying Internet resources dedicated to indigenous and small peoples. The practice of creating full-text databases by regional libraries including both books in indigenous languages and editions reflecting the ethno-cultural specifics of a particular territory is considered as the main way to represent their book culture.

The book under review is devoted to a significant page in the Great Patriotic War history - the Lend-Lease assistance program for the allies. The review notes the importance of introducing into the Russian scientific circulation the documents of the Government Purchasing Commission (GPC) deposited in the Russian State Archive of Economics, and thoroughly studied by the monograph’s author. The analysis of internal structural contradictions in the US government, which played an important role in delaying the implementation of the Lend-Lease program, is also of undoubted importance. The description of GPC actions in May 1945, after a sudden suspension of supplies to the USSR from the United States, closes a lacuna that has still remained in the Lend-Lease national historiography.

The article is devoted to the results of the scientific school-conference, within the framework of which young historians discussed topical problems of historical science. An important part of the event was the scientific school «Popularization of history: from theory to practice». The experts shared with the audience their views on the problem of popularizing historical knowledge, which became the main topic of this year’s conference. The school-conference’s main activity was held at sessions in five topical areas: source studies and historiography; society and power in the world history: relationship problems; socio-economic processes in the world history; history of culture; history of international relations and military affairs. The scientific forum ended with a general thematic panel discussion «Translation difficulties: from science to popularization».

The biodiversity understanding and conservation require information on the species geography and ecology including a detailed description of spatial distribution and habitat confinedness. The availability of comprehensive data on the distribution of rare and endangered species provides the baseline for combating fragmentation and loss of habitats which is the main reason for the species extinction. Also, to monitor populations of rare and endangered species, detailed data on distribution are crucial. The data on species localities are sufficiently important to control the advent plants dispersal as well. The presented study is supported by 93 relevés and more than 500 herbarium specimens collected in the course of field studies in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 in the Republic of Buryatia and Trans-Baikal Territory. As a result of studies, new records of vascular plant species for the Western Trans-Baikal region flora are reported as following. The 25 new localities supported by herbarium specimens and 64 localities documented by relevés for 5 species (Cypripedium macranthon, Circaea lutetiana, Festuca extremiorientalis, Menispermum dauricum, Rhamnus davurica) listed in regional and federal Red Data Books have been described. Also, 11 new localities for 8 rare indigenous species (Artemisia umbrosa, Hieracium narymense, Hylotelephium pallescens, Ribes uva-crispa, Scorzonera glabra, Seseli seseloides, Viola alexandrowiana, V. patrinii) were revealed. The continued expansion of 4 advent plant species (Centaurea scabiosa, Conyza canadensis, Digitaria ischaemum, Trifolium arvense) was supported by newly found 8 localities, 6 of them are documented by herbarium specimens, and 2 localities have been registered in relevés. The suggestion to include Viola alexandrowiana into the Red Data Book of Trans-Baikal Territory is endorsed, and Festuca extremiorientalis is nominated to be listed there too.

In 2019 and 2020 from May to October the known populations of rare species of Novosibirsk oblast were monitored; the biota of macromycetes of Moshkovskyi and Bolotinskyi districts was studied at the same time. As a result, new habitats of several rare species of agaricoid and gasteroid basidiomycetes were discovered. The article presents new data on 4 rare species of agaricoid and gasteroid basidiomycetes, included in the Red Data Book of Novosibirsk region: Melanophyllum haematospermum (Bull.) Kreisel, Pluteus fenzlii (Schulzer) Corriol et P.-A. Moreau, Phallus impudicus L. and Mutinus ravenelii (Berk. et M.A. Curtis) E. Fisch. Specimens are deposited in the M.G. Popov Herbarium (NSK) at the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The state of local populations of the identified species, the tendency of their distribution in the region and in the world, peculiarities of ecology and biology are discussed, and threatening factors are noted. A map with the locations of these species in the Novosibirsk region is presented. The obtained data confirms the rare status for the species Melanophyllum haematospermum and Pluteus fenzlii that belong to agaricoid basidiomycetes and still have low numbers of populations. Additionally, a new habitat for Pluteus fenzlii was recorded in the forests from the wildfire zone. In order to clarify the taxonomic and conservation status of the gasteromycetes Phallus impudicus и Mutinus ravenelii, molecular and DNA testing is required as well as further monitoring. At the present time, new habitats have been found for Phallus impudicus but the population numbers remain low. Conversely, fruit bodies of Mutinus ravenelii appear frequently, with the majority of new habitats found in the anthropogenic zone. The species is likely to be excluded from the list of rare species of Novosibirsk oblast.