Архивы History — Т-инвариант / T-invariant

Prosecutors pulled the crystal owl over the Russian globe: how the CHGKs became undesirable

In November 2024, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation recognized the International Association of Intellectual Games (IAIG) as an undesirable organization. This absurd, at first glance, decision was preceded by a long history of ethical transformation and split of the once united intellectual community. Today, this confrontation looks like it was caused by a war, and everyone writes about it. However, it is based on deep contradictions and psychological deformations that have been embedded since Soviet times.

The Joyous Science. An Essay on the Biography and Scientific Activity of George Gamow

The fifteenth essay in the series "Creators" is dedicated to Georgy Gamov, an outstanding physicist and cosmologist, professor at George Washington University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, who made a huge contribution to nuclear physics, cosmology and theoretical biology. Together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) T-invariant continues publishing the series of biographical essays "Creators".

Cultural Layer. An Essay on the Biography and Scientific Activity of Mikhail Rostovtsev

The fourteenth essay from the series "Creators" is dedicated to Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtsev, an outstanding archaeologist and historian of Antiquity, professor at St. Petersburg University and professor at Yale University, who made a huge contribution to historical science. Together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association), T-invariant continues publishing the series of biographical essays "Creators"

Global Challenges and the Search for Harmony in the Context of the Sakharov Paradigm

The problems of various countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the USA and China, are part of the global agenda of the future of humanity, including technological and humanistic issues that are being revised today and worry many of us. About the new "dispute of physicists and lyricists" in the context of the Sakharov paradigm "Peace, progress, human rights" - in the column of the professor of the University of North Carolina Alexander Kabanov.

Late Flight. An Essay on the Biography and Scientific Activity of Michael Stroukoff

The thirteenth essay from the series “Creators” is dedicated to Michael Stroukoff , an engineer, architect and aircraft designer who built both the famous knowledge in Washington and one of the most famous planes of the Vietnam War. Together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) T-invariant continues publishing the series of biographical essays "Creators".

History

What is happening to the vessel Akademik Nikolai Strakhov and to the Russian scientific fleet

In the Kara Sea, for the second week now, a drama has been developing around the research vessel “Akademik Nikolay Strakhov”, which is stuck there. T-invariant describes the broad context of the problem and tells what role Mikhail Kovalchuk can play in the emergency, who tried in the summer to bring the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences into the structure of his Kurchatov Center.

Attraction of the goal. Essay on the biography and scientific work of Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina

The eleventh essay in the series "Creators" is dedicated to the outstanding psychologist Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina. She was born in Chita, studied with one of the founders of Gestalt psychology Kurt Lewin in the 1920s, and worked for many years in American universities.

Concrete “Phantom”. Essay on the biography and activities of Vladimir Yurkevich

The tenth essay in the “Creators” series is dedicated to Vladimir Yurkevich (also spelled as ‘Yourkevitch’), an outstanding shipbuilder who built ships in Russia, France, and America. He improved the ship hull and developed radio-controlled ships without a crew. T-invariant continues the “Creators” project together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association).

Sever the Sky. Essay on the biography and activities of Alexander Prokofiev-Seversky

The ninth essay in the “Creators” series is dedicated to Alexander Prokofiev-Seversky, pilot, aircraft designer, military analyst, one of the developers of modern military aviation doctrine. The “Creators” project was created jointly with RASA (Russian-American Science Association).

Council of Elders.
Putin’s pensioners with Cold War experience gathered at the “dormant institute” under the Security Council

Vladimir Putin updated and expanded scientific council at the Security Council of the Russian Federation. T-invariant analyzed the biographies of all its 174 members. The median age of the council is pre-retirement, 63.5 years. The oldest member is 94 years old.

Tamer of Anger. Essay on the biography and scientific activities of Tamara Dembo

The sixth essay in the “Creators” series is dedicated to Tamara Dembo, an outstanding psychologist whose work on the study of “anger as a dynamic problem” and the rehabilitation of people with disabilities remains scientifically relevant to this day. The “Creators” project, created by T-invariant together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association), talks about people from the Russian Empire who made significant contributions to world science and technology.