Слепкова Надежда Валентиновна
Зоологический институт РАН
DOI: 10.24411/2076-8176-2017-11908
Commemorative Events in Honor of the 275th Birthday Celebration of Peter Simon Pallas in St. Petersburg
Slepkova Nadezhda V.
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.24411/2076-8176-2017-11908
Article describes the commemorative events, that took place in St. Petersburg in 2016, in honor of the 275th birthday celebration of Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) — the scientist of the encyclopedic cognitions, organizer and participant of scientific expeditions on the territory of Russia, who made an enormous contribution to botany, zoology, ethnography, geography, linguistics, mineralogy, history of science. First was a joint meeting of the Commission on the History of Geographical Knowledge of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) and of the members of the Permanent Scientific Seminar «The Science about the Kunstkammer» of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) held on September 7, 2016 in the building of RGS. Another one took place on December 7, 2016 in the Oak Hall of the House of Scientists. This was a joint meeting of the Section of the Socio-economic Problems and Statistics of the House of Scientists together with the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists (SPbSU). Famous specialists on Pallas participated. Among them were A.K. Sytin, L.Ja. Borkin, E.I. Kolchinskii, A.G. Abaydulova, B.K. Gannibal and many others. Scientists of many institutes of the Academy of Sciences took part.