Особенности научного туризма в СССР (постановка проблемы)

Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филология. 2023. Т. 22. № 8. С. 112–125.

Orlov I. B.

The article analyzes the phenomenon of scientific tourism in the USSR, both from the perspective of tourism issues and within the framework of the social history of science. But modern research on scientific tourism has actually fallen out of the field of view of both scientific directions. For tourism issues, research design is limited, first of all, by different approaches to defining the sphere of scientific tourism in Soviet and post-Soviet historiography. Whereas within the framework of the social history of science, broad research prospects are opening up. The macroanalytical strategy makes it possible to identify the relationship of the "Intourist" with party and state institutions in the field of scientific tourism, and the microanalytical approach shows how interaction within tourist groups influenced non-political (including scientific) activity. Scientific tourism is considered as an external social factor influencing science, and at the same time as a form of scientific activity. Based on archival materials and documents of personal origin, the author concludes that the early history of scientific tourism fell in the second half of the 1920s, and the completion of its formation in the 1960s. At the same time, the historical reconstruction allows us to see how certain areas of scientific tourism were formed – congress, industrial, expedition, exhibition and specialized. The author explains the unstable dynamics of the development of Soviet scientific tourism, in addition to bureaucratic red tape and interdepartmental inconsistencies, primarily by attempts to combine two mutually exclusive attitudes – the expansion of scientific and technical cooperation and the achievement of ideological and political effect from trips.

Keywords: congress, социальная история науки, social history of science, конгресс, экспедиции, научный туризм, scientific tourism, expeditions, specialized groups, специализированные группы