Shadow of the Future: Shubnikov and Fersman. Letters of 1920–1921

Аннотация

We publish the transcribed letters written in 1920–1924 from Yekaterinburg by A.V.Shubnikov and his wife O.M.Lebedeva-Shubnikova to Academician A.E.Fersman as well as some comments of these letters. They discuss creation of the Department of Crystallography at the Institute Mines in Yekaterinburg (now, Ural State Mining University), crystallographic research, the organization of scientific work, and difficult life of scientists during the reconstruction of our country after the collapse of the Civil War.