# 6 (11) December 2006
ISSN: 1810-8520
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE FIRST AFTER WORLD WAR I
The All-Russian Archaeological Congress (Novgorod, 1911 — Novosibirsk, 2006)
On the history of the science that "forecasts the past"
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Leonardo's optics
What's in common between the artificial crystalline and space telescope?
In one "meal" lasting more than a week a taiga tick female can increase its weight more than 100 times!
Less than three per cent of scorpions are potential "man-killers"
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RESEARCH LABThe new image of optics (by A. G. Poleshchuk and V. P. Koronkevich) |
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FACULTYLeonardo's Optics (by M. A. Mogilevsky) |
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MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONSRevival of traditions... (by A. G. Abaidulova and N. A. Petrova ) Keep Forever (First Publication from A. P. Okladnikov's Personal Archives by O. V. Yanshina) In search for treasures of Hero Khara-Jia-Jun. Unpublished works of S. I. Rudenko (by I. V. Tunkina) Nomads' gold. On the "Siberian collection" of Peter I (by E. F. Korolkova ) Messerschmitt's archaeological collection "comes back" (by N. P. Kopaneva) The First Researchers of the Altai Caves (by M. V. Shunkov) Archaeology... in the war. Russian scholars in Trabzon (by D. N.Starostin ) |
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PEOPLEHalt, encephalitis fires! (by S. E. Tkachev) |
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CLOSER TO NATUREOctopod Vampires (by N. N. Livanova) Wanderings under the Constellation of Scorpio (by V. Ya. Fet ) |



