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Zhizn Zemli [Life of the Earth] 47, no 4

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10.29003/m4990.0514-7468.2025_47_4/578-588

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Murzintseva, A.E.

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mineralogical collection, classification of minerals, Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers, Commission for the Dissemination of Natural Science Knowledge, Osip I. Sharakshinov, 1911, manuscript, history of science, history of education, Museum of Scientific Heritage, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Murzintseva, A.E., “Educational collection of minerals and rocks as a historical evidence and museum object”, Zhizn Zemli [Life of the Earth] 47, no 4, 578–588 (2025) (in Russ., abstr. in Engl.), DOI: 10.29003/m4990.0514-7468.2025_47_4/578-588.

Educational collection of minerals and rocks as a historical evidence and museum object

The article analyzes a collection of minerals and rocks compiled in 1911 in Yekaterinburg city in the mineralogical workshop of the Commission for the Dissemination of Natural Science Knowledge of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers, stored in the Museum of Scientific Heritage (Ulan-Ude city). It includes both material (stone samples) and written sources (handwritten and printed). It contains information on the history of science, education and museum work in our country in the first decades of the 20th century. The collection was compiled according to J.D. Dana’s mineralogical systematics, typical for museum practice of that period. Its geography covers mainly the Southern Urals, but individual samples were collected in other regions of the Russian Empire.
The collection box contains its catalog, as well as scraps of the newspaper “Russkoye Slovo” and a fragment of a note of 1911, confirming the dating of the collection. The autograph on the catalogue belongs to Nadezhda O. Sharakshinova, a famous folklorist, through whose family the collection came to Buryatia. A second autograph was presumably left by the Yekaterinburg merchant Pyotr I. Yarinsky (~1868–?).
The educational mineral collections of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers were in demand by educational institutions across the country in the first decades of the 20th century. This activity is presented in sufficient detail in archival documents and research works. However, very few such educational aids have survived in museum collections. For the Museum of Scientific Heritage, the collection is an opportunity to expand the mineral diversity and geography of its collection; a document that stands out for its historical, scientific and memorial value.

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  10. Murzintseva, A.E., Doronina, N.A., Arsent’eva, A.P., Belozor, A.O., Petrov, M.S., Tsympilov, A.V., Shagdurov, B.B., “Collection of minerals and rocks UOLE 1911. Museum attribution”, Min eralogy and museums: synergy of science and art – 2025 (Irkutsk, 2025) (in Russian).
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References

  1. Voytekhovskiy, Yu.L., “The system of mineralogy: what is nature’s intention?”, Minerals: structure, properties, research methods 9, 36–38 (2018) (in Russian).
  2. Dolgikh, L.A., “Minerals and rocks in the collection of the Kungur Museum-Reserve. Brief overview of the collection”, All-Russian scientific readings in memory of the Ilmen mineralogist V.O. Polyakov 16, 79–84 (2015) (in Russian).
  3. Zorina, L.I., “Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers. 1870–1929. From the History of Science and Culture of the Urals”, Scientific Notes of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local History 1 (Yekat erinburg: Blank of Cultural Information, 1996) (in Russian).
  4. Catalogue of the collection of minerals compiled according to the system of Professor Dana in 100 copies (Yekaterinburg: Tip. pod firm. «V.N. Alekseeva, P.N. Galina i K°», 1911. 8 p.) (in Russian).
  5. Kleymyonov, D.A., “Collecting minerals in the Urals”, Bull. of the Ural State Mining University 8, 75–77 (1998) (in Russian).
  6. Collection of minerals and rocks for the textbook of mineralogy and geology by prof. A.V. Nechaev. 64 samples (Ekaterinburg: Type. M.M. Dobrokhotova, 1912) (https://www.litfund.ru/auction/455/137/) (in Russian).
  7. Collection of minerals and rocks UOLE (MAU DPO «Center for the Development of Edu­cation of the City of Chelyabinsk») (https://cro.chel-edu.ru/muzey/delaem-muzey-vmeste/predan ya-stariny-glubokoy/kollektsiya-mineralov-i-gornykh-porod.php) (in Russian).
  8. Malakhova, I.G., Khomizuri, G.P., “James Dwight Dana”, Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the 18th–21st centuries: Geology and mining sciences (Moscow, 2012) (in Russian).
  9. Mikityuk, V.P., “Yekaterinburg entrepreneurs Yarinskies”, Socio-economic history of the Urals in the 18th 20th centuries: problems and solutions (Yekaterinburg: Institute of History and Archeo­logy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021) (in Russian).
  10. Murzintseva, A.E., Doronina, N.A., Arsent’eva, A.P., Belozor, A.O., Petrov, M.S., Tsympilov, A.V., Shagdurov, B.B., “Collection of minerals and rocks UOLE 1911. Museum attribution”, Min eralogy and museums: synergy of science and art – 2025 (Irkutsk, 2025) (in Russian).
  11. Rusinova, M.P., “Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers in the Educational Space of the Urals”, Pedagogical Education 1, 56–59 (2008) (in Russian).
  12. Russkoe slovo: socio-political newspaper 22. January 27, 1912 (Moscow, 1912) (http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/92401-locale-nil-22-27-yanv#mode/) (in Russian).