Alexander Igorevich Svirepov,
Student, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e‑mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Role of N.Ya. Novombergsky in the Organization of Accounting and Planning of Research Activities in the Siberian Region in 1926−1928
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2025-1-15
The article highlights the activities of Professor N.Ya. Novombergsky in the field of accounting and planning of scientific research in Siberia in 1926−1928. In 1926, a Research Bureau was established at Sibkraplan, which was subsequently reorganized into the Bureau for the Study of Productive Forces. The Bureau faced many tasks, but the main ones were the accounting and coordination of scientific research carried out in the Siberian Region. A huge role in his work was played by the famous scientist N.Ya. Novombergsky, who was a member of the Bureau since its formation, and in 1927 headed the institution. In the course of its activities, the Bureau faced significant difficulties: the originally planned research planning goals actually had to be limited to taking into account the past and registering the current one. The authority of Novombergsky, as deputy chairman of the Regional Planning Committee and a prominent scientist, expert in the economy and culture of Siberia, was required to coordinate the collection and processing of necessary information in this area from several dozen institutions and organizations of Siberia and the Center. Together with the Society for the Study of Siberia (OIS), established in the same period, a mechanism for receiving and analyzing information about significant expeditions and stationary research conducted in the region over the past decade was built in a short time. The coverage of the current coordination work on accounting and linking research was carried out in the Sibirevedenie newsletter. The activities of Novombergsky and his colleagues should be assessed as a stage of regional planning in the field of science, interrupted in the autumn of 1928 by the removal of N.Ya. Novombergsky and V.G. Boldyrev − key employees of the Bureau from their posts for political reasons.
Publishing: 24/02/2025
The article has been received by the editor on 05/11/2024
How to cite: Svirepov A.I. The Role of N.Ya. Novombergsky in the Organization of Accounting and Planning of Research Activities in the Siberian Region in 1926−1928 // Historical Courier, 2025, No. 1 (39), pp. 220−232. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2025/ISTKURIER-2025-1-15.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2025
Keywords: planning; scientific research; Siberian Region