Materiality of marine sciences in late Imperial Russia and early Soviet Union: Research vessels, instruments, laboratory practices

• Published in: Artefact
• Main Author: Lajus, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Association Artefact. Techniques histoire et sciences humaines 2021
• Subjects: Mer de Barents; pêcheries; genre dans les sciences; histoire de l’océanographie; Barents Sea; fisheries; gender in science; history of oceanography; Conseil
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/artefact/10129

The paper discusses the materiality of marine science in Russia from the example of the Barents Sea. This sea became a scientific frontier in the late nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century by being included into the international research programme of the International...