The article is devoted to the activities of the regional
branch of all-Russian voluntary society for protection
of monuments of history and culture (VOOLIK) in the
territory of Adygheya. The studied problem has not
been the subject of special study. The main source was
archival dataб which were not included into scientific
circulation. First, these are the minutes of the regional
conferences of VOOPIK and the meetings of its
regional branch. The article discusses the processes of
creation and functioning of the society; we have
determined the range of issues included in their
competence and the most active members of the
society, revealed the conditions for the establishment
of primary organizations and the requirements for
entering into society. The analysis of the reports of the
regional conferences of VOOPIK and the meetings of
the regional branch was allowed to identify specific
activities conducted by the regional branch of
VOOPIK, for the creation and preservation of the
historical heritage of the Republic of Adygea
The modern informational technologies and the
Internet as a part of them are changing our world.
These changes are the reason for genesis of new
theoretical concepts in the middle of XX century,
which research the influence of informational
technologies on spheres of social life. Step by step
we developed different theoretical concepts of
“Informational society”, which try to predict the
prospects of society. We have formed a new term of
“cyberspace”, but scientists still argue about its
meaning. One part thinks that it has only “network”
meaning, which means that cyberspace is only the
Internet, another part understands this term more
widely, include the hardware part in this term. In
this article, the author analyzes different theoretical
concepts which research the question of genesis and
development of informational society, and the
process of forming of the term of “cyberspace”,
research of the process of transformation of “postindustrial
society” into “informational society”,
highlight the main ideas of informational society
concepts
One of the actual directions of studying the history in
modern world is the history of day-to-day life.
Studying the industrial day-to-day life of builders on
shock Komsomol building let us analyze their
problems and the ways to solve them. The author
gives the economic and political pre-conditions of
organizing the patronage under the building of
industrial objects on the South Ural. The concept
“shock Komsomol building” and the classification of
buildings are given. The main objects of Komsomol
patronage which were situated on the territory of
Orenburg area at that time are enumerated. The
problems of women working at the building are
viewed on the materials of Orenburg area. On the
basis of archives the per cent ratio of youth and
women working on the building is given. The
industrial facts influencing on their socialization are
examined. The main attention is given to the
characteristics of industry, providing the builders with
sanitary and domestic conditions of the objects and
uniforms. The important aspect was also maintenance
of safety measures on the building. The hard work of
women who did not have the building education is
stressed. The main spheres of professional
employment of women on the building are
enumerated
In the article, we can analyze the participation of
Kalmik trade unions in ensuring workers’ labor
protection and safety engineering in 1970-ies. The
sources of the article base are the documents of
National archive of the Kalmyk Republic. The analysis
of the large documental material showed that in
1970ies the trade unions began to study deeper the
question of making better the conditions of work, more
often raised the questions of labor protection at the
meetings of workers committees, drew the community
to this work. Kalmik trade unions organizations paid
serious attention to safety engineering and industry
sanitation, achieved such condition that the workers
were completely provided with overalls, means of
individual protection, they demanded absolute
mechanization of hard processes, fought for high
culture of manufacture. In spite of trade-union
organizations of the republic did definite work about
putting in order in cause of fulfillment of labor laws,
the situation did not change
This article deals with actual problems of the national
structure of Kalmyk people in 1930-s years based on
legislative documents and also problems of
development and the adoption of the first Constitution
of Kalmyk USDA (1937). The article focuses on the
main features of this research. The adoption of the
basic law of the Kalmyk republic was a big step in the
social and political life in Kalmykia and in its
constitutional history. This document included
fundamental principles of the «constitution of
proletariat government», peculiarities of Russian social
class development, aims and objectives of national
political structure in the Russian Federation. The basic
law of the Kalmyk USDA was created on the basis of
principles of the Constitution of the USSR and the
Constitution of the RSFSR. The law secured social and
government order of the Soviet Kalmykia. The
procedure of governing and composition, the
competence and authorities are disclosed and the work
of the Supreme council of the Kalmyk USDA as the
highest representative and legislative body in the
context of the basic law of the Kalmyk republic. In the
Constitution of the republic rights and freedom of
nationals are fully reflected in accordance with the
constitutional principles of the USSR. Finally the
author concludes that in the administrative command
system the basic features of rights and freedom of the
peoples of the USSR in practice were not respected
The offered article considers one of key problems of
the Soviet history. It is an activity of governing
bodies of the national economy in the period of the
New Economic Policy in separately taken region —
the Republic of Kalmykia. As a result of a research it
is shown how archival materials and separate types of
sources are used in studying of the designated
problems, how the revealed sources interact between
themselves in research works. The publication of new
archival documents and their variety demonstrate that
the new milestone begins in studying problems of
governing bodies. It is connected not so much with
specific updating of documents as with change of a
technique of the analysis. The main attention begins
to be paid to subjective factors and circumstances. In
this regard further development of source base in
studying of system of governing bodies in Kalmykia
will be defined by modern ideas of the place and a
role of the historical document in understanding of
the past
This article reviews the summary of the annual reports
of the Horde branch of the Astrakhan chamber for state
property and Management of the Kalmyk people,
1848-1892. The Author gave a detailed analysis of the
serving duties of the Kalmyks who had the power de
jure, on the basis of extensive factual material. It
contains data on payment of taxes charged by the
administration and established by the following
legislative acts: by regulations on the management of
the Kalmyk people dated 1834 and regulations for the
management of the Kalmyk people dated April 23,
1847. The difference between these legislative acts
was in determining the size of the duties. The
administration was primarily interested in the total
amount of salary collections and arrears for each type
of individual duty and also as a whole across the
steppe. Due to the specificity the analysis doesn’t show
the whole picture of the duties which came under the
control of the administration, not to mention those who
were outside its competence. The reports represent
accounts for the annual collection of arrears for each of
the duties individually and also in the aggregate. The
so-called statistics of the okladnoy and neokladnoy
taxable estate is conditional in nature
Occupation of the Soviet territory by German fascist
invaders during the Great Patriotic War caused
considerable damage. The Soviet Government
developed legal and regulatory framework for the
methods of assessment of damage. The purpose of this
article is to analyze the legal framework, by the
example of a regulatory act according to which
calculation of damage to the collective farms in the
occupied territories during World War II was made.
The NKVD instruction "On the procedure of
collecting, recording and storage of documentary
materials relating to the atrocities, destruction, looting
and violence of the German authorities in the
occupied Soviet areas" was adopted in May 1942.
Based on the instruction, and under orders of the
NKVD in Elista, events to identify and collect
materials that characterize the crimes of Hitler's
government were carried out. According to these
instructions, materials reflecting Nazi atrocities were
subjected to the mandatory deposit of the State
Archives. The paper gives summary quantitative data
on the results of assessment of damage caused during
the occupation period in August 8, 1942 to January
20, 1943
The article deals with a political crisis in the Kalmyk
khanate and the departure of the part of the Volga
Kalmyks from South Russia to the borders of the
Jungar khanate at the beginning of the XVIII century.
The dramatic events of 1701–1702 which were caused
by a race for power in a khanʼs family or by an attempt
of «palace revolution» are considered in chronological
sequence. This conflict was used by the representatives
of the Kalmyk ruling elite who were dissatisfied with
the khan Ayukaʼs policy and interested in the change
of the political power. But the support of the tsarist
government given to the Kalmyk khan ruined the plans
of the conspirators and some part of them embracing
15 thousand of nomad tents moved on to the territory
of Jungaria. This event which cardinally influenced on
the alignment of forces in the Oirat society
considerably weakened the Kalmyk khanate and
correspondingly increased the population size in the
Jungar khanate
In order to describe the state of the power vertical in
Kalmykia an analytical review of the Constitution of the
RSFSR in 1937 and the Constitution of the Kalmyk
ASSR in 1937 was made in this paper. The study reveals
features of construction of the vertical of the supreme
bodies of state power. The conclusion is that the system
of construction of the vertical of higher authorities,
establishes a sign of a unitary form of state-territorial
structure