Little-known resource expeditions of A.F. Gebel and G.F. Gebel on the Kola Peninsula in the late 19th _ early 20th centuries

4th International Scientific Conference "Arctic: History and Modernity"

生态环境科学;历史学

Shabalina, O.V.^1 ; Kazakova, K.S.^1

Barents Centre of the Humanities, Branch of the Federal Research Centre, Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russia^1

关键词: Academic research;    Archival materials;    Arctic regions;    Historical reconstruction;    Research methodologies;    Scientific knowledge;    Scientific method;    System approach;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012008/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012008

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The article presents the results of a study to identify new possible historical sources and determine their informational potential for historical reconstruction of the process of preparing and conducting little-known expeditionary researches of mineralogist A.F. Gebel and naturalist, ornithologist H.F. Gebel on the Kola Peninsula in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Within the framework of humanitarian and system approaches, the research methodology was based on general scientific methods of scientific knowledge, archival, source study, problem-chronological, comparative, historical-genetic (retrospective) methods. The studies of the North-West of the Russian Empire represented a separate area of expeditionary academic research. At that time, private expeditions were organized, related to the development of industry in Russia, which made necessary the study of internal natural resources, mainly in the European part of Russia and the comprehensive studies of the extreme northern and arctic regions. The revealed archival materials of the fund of the Office of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences and the personal fund of the Director of the Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences A.F. Gebel represent a multidimensional complex thematic body of sources, consisting of creative, personal, organizational, administrative, protocolar, reporting documentation and business correspondence. Sources for studying the biography and expeditionary activity of H.F. Gebel were obituaries and lifetime published reporting expedition materialspaper presents the results of a study to identify new possible historical sources and determine their informational potential for historical reconstruction of the process of preparing and conducting little-known expeditionary researches of mineralogist A.F. Gebel and naturalist, ornithologist H.F. Gebel on the Kola Peninsula in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Within the framework of humanitarian and system approaches, the research methodology was based on general scientific methods of scientific knowledge, archival, source study, problem-chronological, comparative, historical-genetic (retrospective) methods.