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Inductively induced electric polarization (IIP) is one of the aftereffects inherent in the geologic materials and affecting results of the transient electromagnetic method. Its effect on the inductive transient response manifests itself as a nonmonotonic EMF decay, including the polarity reversal. The dependence of IIP on many conditions makes it difficult to study the basic regularities in its manifestation. One of the ways to address this problem is to present the simulation results as a normalized transient response. From the most general point of view, the intensity and time range of the IIP manifestation are controlled by the competition between induction and induced polarization phenomena. Induced polarization manifests itself differently, depending on the transmitter used for the excitation of the ground response. Therefore, when studying polarizable ground, the results of the conventional IP method and those of the TEM method do not always correlate.

The Year of Science and Technology has summed up the original results of reflecting the problems of domestic science and education in the pages of the journal “Humanitarian Sciences in Siberia”. The author analyzes thematic blocks of articles, reviews, conference reviews published in the journal over the past three years. The study reveals that the publications are devoted to various problems of the history of science, education, educational and museum activities; they are distinguished by thematic variety. The journal presents works on the history of the expeditionary study of Siberia in the XVIII century, educational activities and book business in Siberia, various scientific and educational institutions. The papers present the history of the academic science in Siberia - scientific centers, personal stories of leading scientists and their scientific heritage. Articles and reports on various areas of museum activities reveal the diversity of approaches of the Siberian museum community to the study and preservation of the scientific and cultural heritage of the region. The final part of the review indicates peculiar “gaps” in covering the problems of science and education history in the journal’s pages.

The museum space of Siberia is analyzed in the context of state and society integration for the first time in the historical dynamics. The state museum management, a key problem of museum activity, has not received proper development both at nationwide and regional levels of research. The author’s approach to study the problem in the museum space context is highlighted as relevant. The article determines foundations of the museum network formation in the late XVIII - early XX centuries: effective state and society interaction, active position of patrons, intelligentsia representatives, and population in Siberia. In the 1930s-1940s priorities in the state museum policy were: creating museums of a historical and revolutionary profile and industrial character, reflecting the socialism achievements, involving the educated public in ideological and educational work with the population. The author presents the leading trends of the museum sphere development in the 1960s-1980s: interdependence between ideological demand and funding, organization of museums of different departmental affiliation, social needs to preserve and reproduce historical and cultural values. The cultural policy and development strategies of the regional museum space in the first decade of the XXI century are associated with multichannel financing, fundraising technologies, adaptation of museums to the market economy, implementation of targeted programs and national projects. The model of the state and society interaction based on enhancing the potential of each region in the historical and cultural heritage development field under the interaction of federal and local authorities, as well as inclusion of museums in the areas of branding territories, publishing, and Internet space are relevant and promising.

The paper highlights the activities of the International Scientific and Practical Conference with elements of the scientific school «Historical science and education in the XXI century» (Novosibirsk, March 23-27, 2021). Scientists and teachers discussed the modern transformations that occurred in the field of historical education at all levels under the influence of socio-economic and political factors, the global process of digitalization; developed practical recommendations for its adaptation to the new challenges of modernity. Speeches and discussions concerned the use of historical sources in research, school and higher school education, new interpretations of plots in the past, methods of teaching history in Russia and abroad.

Terence Edward Armstrong (1920-1996) was a British linguist, geographer, economist, historian, who had worked at the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge) for many years and been recognized widely as a leading researcher of the Arctic. Despite the high appreciation of his scientific achievements by Soviet and Russian experts, T. Armstrong’s works were not given due attention in the Russian historiography. The paper objective is to fill this gap. It’s proven that T. Armstrong made a significant contribution to the Arctic studies in the UK. While focusing on the Soviet North problems, he actively promoted the scientific cooperation between Western and Soviet scholars, implementation of international research projects, development of educational programs and training specialists in the field of polar research at western universities. T. Armstrong was among the first Western researchers who studied a wide range of issues related to the Russian Arctic (the Northern Sea Route development, the forced labor use, the indigenous people policy, oil and gas production, urbanization problems, environmental protection etc.). Comparing the tsarist and Soviet policies in the Arctic he came to conclusion that changes occurring in the North after 1917 were so striking and profound that the whole pre-revolutionary era could be considered as a prequel to the Soviet period. Giving a high assessment of the Soviet Arctic policy results, T. Armstrong pointed the need to widen the international cooperation in the region further developing and solving its problems. Being an adherent of the ideas of “environmentalism” (the theory consideting the environment’s decisive role in human evolution), he perceived the Arctic as a unique habitat with a fragile ecosystem that must be preserved for future generations. The scientific heritage of the British researcher is still relevant and deserves to be thoroughly studied by the Russian specialists.

Providing vast areas of the Siberian region with means of electrical communication has been an urgent task at all times. During the war years, this task acquired special significance. It became necessary to organize uninterrupted communications under conditions of an extremely increased load, determined by the needs of the front, on the one hand, and by the needs of the rear, which was being rebuilt in a war-like manner, on the other hand. A main difficulty encountered by the Siberian telecommunications was the lack of spare communication centers, reserve capacities, which the front desperately needed. Another problem was the radial system of wire telecommunications, which did not allow most of the country’s economic centers to connect with each other, bypassing Moscow. The war period left its mark on the work essence of enterprises and telecommunication industries. The telegraph, long-distance telephone communications, as during the civil war, were almost entirely placed to serve the army and state. In this case, the population interests were, as a rule, infringed upon, limited, relegated to the background. The quality level of the telecommunication industry was low as well. Line-station facilities did not meet technical requirements; station facilities, as a rule, were not equipped with the necessary equipment. Single-wire networks were installed everywhere, there was no repair base for telecommunications. Only after transiting initiatives to the Red Army, the accents were again shifted to nationwide communications and establishing traditional operational communications enterprises. Thanks to the internal reserve mobilization and measures of an administrative-repressive nature, Siberian communications managed to strengthen its economic base during the war period. The Siberian industry strengthened significantly due to evacuation means. The region launched the production of telecommunication products (mainly radio products). The equipment of telecommunication enterprises improved greatly with the latest technology and trophy equipment, more advanced as a rule.

The publication objective is a comprehensive study of the personal subsidiary economy of the collective farm family during the Great Patriotic War. In line with this goal, the authors identify the following tasks: to determine the role of household books in studying individual subsidiary plots; consider the structure and composition of personal subsidiary farms; characterize the state of gardening, cattle breeding, beekeeping under extreme conditions of war. The research source base were materials of household books (more than 30 cases) collected by authors and students of the Historical Department during the complex historical and ethnographic expeditions of the Center of Oral History and Ethnography” (Altai State Pedagogical University) in six Altai Region districts - Krasnoshchekovsky, Volchikhinsky, Topchikhinsky, Krutikhinsky, Kulunda, Romanovsky ones. The source analysis made it possible to determine the significance of household books as a base to study individual subsidiary farming, which is inaccessible to researchers. For a long time, household books weren’t a subject to study. The household books contain primary written (statistical) information, which includes data on the rural population registration, individual subsidiary farms (amount of land, livestock, cultivated crops, buildings, taxes, etc.) reflecting information on arrived and leaving families, that allows tracking the historical, socio-economic processes of individual subsidiary farms in an annual section. The household book data analysis made it possible to identify and characterize the main important “vital” indicators of peasant families ensuring their existence during the war years. According to household book research, the individual subsidiary plots of the peasant collective farm families in Altai Region in the war years developed largely depending on external drivers, to a lesser degree - to internal ones.

The world has recently seen a constant and intensive increase of the elderly population size. The process of the population demographic aging has affected all countries that have embarked on the path of demographic transition, including our country, it is accompanied by the older people’s growing activity. The author aims to identify the concept of the heuristic possibilities of the concept of the older generation’s resource potential, that makes it possible to consider older people as the productive members of the society, to study risks of demographic aging in Russian regions. To achieve the goal, the author analyzes the resource potential components, such as health, educational, qualification, motivational and social ones and their current status in the Russian elderly population, in general and in the regional context. The study is based on data of state statistics bodies, state authorities and results of sociological surveys of the elderly population. The analysis has shown the lack of statistical data to determine the level of the elderly population’s social potential, because the older generation’s activity level in various spheres plays an important role in its condition. In this regard, it is necessary to carry on surveys of older people to identify their activity in maintaining their health, and other components of the resource potential. The resource potential’s structural elements analysis is the base to develop methods and tools for such surveys, and their results allow characterizing the level of older people’s resource potential in the regions deeply and comprehensively.

The article considers and analyzes some brief historical evidence and visual materials testifying to Kuchum Khan’s run out of Siberian metropolitan town of Qaşliq, accompanied by his entourages and supporters from among Siberian Tatar warriors. He hastily headed southward to the steppe southern regions of West Siberia and northern regions of current Kazakhstan to those remote areas, where at that time there were settlement sites of Kazakh steppe nomads within the Kazakh nomadic association. Accompanied by his supporters, Kuchum Khan went to his former residence, where he used to live before seizing power in the Siberian Khanate. He left many Siberian Tatar towns in the Siberian Khanate territory without his military support, hastily escaped and refused to defend them, fearful to confront the Russian Cossacks weaponed with fire-arms. Some brief information about these historical events is reflected in the text and illustrations of «Brief Siberian (Kungur) Chronicle». This article objective is to examine the data and visual materials dedicated to a historical plot presented in the text and illustrations of this historical source. The analyzed illustration of Siberian Tatar three towns located between streams on a hillside along the Irtysh River bank. There is a defensive trench along the walls of a Siberian Tatar town. At the upper part of the illustration, there are three troops of equestrian Siberian Tatar warriors, who are probably going to the steppe regions of West Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. The authors analyze features of the armament, headdresses and clothes, as well as the standards of Siberian Tatar warriors, which are at the illustration. They consider an image of a pedestrian Siberian Tatar warrior troop. The pictorial materials significantly supplement the studied written source data about the hasty escape of Siberian Kuchum Khan and his supporters to the steppes.

The paper presents main problems of representing the historical knowledge in the modern public space of Russia, which were discussed at the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “VI Yadrintsev Readings” held in Omsk in October 2021. Leading scientists of various fields of humanitarian knowledge (historians, geographers, culturologists, archaeologists, ethnographers and others), as well as specialists in archival, library and museum affairs from twelve regions of Russia considered the issues of myth-making in public history, the experience of preserving cultural memory and updating historical and cultural heritage, and more general problems related to traditional and modern interpretations of the concepts of “local history”, “local historian” and “amateur local historian”. It has been proposed to understand the local history as the process of forming a multidisciplinary knowledge about the nature, history, economy and culture of a certain region aimed at popularizing the results in the public space and fostering love for a small homeland.