February 8 - Russian Science Day

Every year on February 8, the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of Russian Science. It was established by a decree in June 1999 by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and in the same year it was first celebrated.

The celebration was timed to coincide with the 275th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Academy of Sciences. My history this scientific institution counts from February 8 (January 28, old style) 1724, and the emperor Peter the Great was the initiator of its foundation.

In Soviet times, scientists also had their own professional holiday, but on the third Sunday of April. Around these days in 1918, the leader of the world proletariat, Vladimir Lenin, drew up a "Sketch plan for scientific and technical work." In fact, in Russian scientific institutions this date is traditionally celebrated today.

Although official events in honor of the workers of Russian science are held on February 8th. The holiday is considered professional for scientists, teachers and students conducting scientific and research activities. These people create new technologies, make fundamental scientific discoveries.

Russia is in dire need of them in order to ensure technological independence and remain among the advanced countries of the world. That is why Russian President Vladimir Putin established the Decade of Science and Technology in the country, which runs from 2022 to 2031.

On February 8, large-scale scientific and practical events are held in most educational and scientific institutions of Russia, in which young people are actively involved.

The editors of the Military Review congratulate Russian scientists on their professional holiday! Let Russian science develop as actively as possible and lead the country to prosperity. And let the state provide her with the most favorable conditions for this.

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[Grandfather]

Every year on February 8, the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of Russian Science. It was established by a decree in June 1999 by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and in the same year it was first celebrated.

"blue" benefactor... made a "holiday" by killing the country.

[Grandfather]

In 1925, the citizens of the USSR, by a special government decree, were presented with a new public holiday - the 200th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The academy itself received as a gift a new status of the highest scientific institution under the government of the USSR, a doubled budget and a new name - the USSR Academy of Sciences. Festive celebrations went on in Moscow and Leningrad for ten days - from 5 to 14 September.

[Stas157]

Quote: Dead Day

"blue" benefactor... made a "holiday" by killing the country.

The blue benefactor declared a holiday, and his follower went further and established a whole Decade of Science and Technology!

But scientists and engineers will not be born from this. They need to be nurtured. And this requires places in universities, free higher education, specialized research institutes and enterprises, and finally a decent salary.

[hrych]

Quote: Stas157

But scientists and engineers will not be born from this. They need to be nurtured.

When the Bolsheviks began to burn, then Stalin from the camps, through sharashkas, pulled up the students of the tsarist professorship. The professors themselves had time to rot. Who was lucky enough to escape to the West and there they gave an impetus to development, the example of Sikorsky in the helicopter industry and Zvorykin in television. Of the sharashkas, our chief aviator Tupolev, as well as Polikarpov, Bartini, Petlyakov. Of the sharashkas, the chief rocket engineer Tupolev, the chief designer of rocket engines Glushko, Kurchatov himself did not sit, but pulled the nuclear scientists out of the sharashkas. In fact, we are still holding on to their backlog, nothing new. They made a qualitative breakthrough, then only a quantitative one. Genetics was not lucky, Vavilov was shot. And here, a series of mysterious deaths begins, not yet old scientists. Kurchatov dies, a few years later Korolev. Demikhov, who sewed the head of a dog to another dog, was hunted down, he was brought to disability and the students were dispersed. They did not just kill and poison the students of the tsarist professorship, who made the scientific and technological revolution, but destroyed the school of their followers. And the vaunted Brezhnev time distinguished itself not just by stagnation in science, but by the destruction of potential. The research institutes were filled with nationalists, blatnyaks and mediocrity. We have failed computerization and the associated revolution in every field. Ultrasound and MRI in medicine, CNC machines and robotic assembly, communication and communications, including the Internet., including the study of the genome. Everywhere this was given by computer processing. When the Union collapsed, these natsmen's blotniks filled the scientific research institutes and the West, and Western science stood up as a stake. We see only ballansirovanie on the old groundwork. Where is the degradation? The planes became slower, the Concorde was blown away, the B-1A and the Valkyrie did not go, the Shuttles were scrapped. They also stick out on the royal backlog. And now we see a breakthrough ... with us. Hypersound, nuclear-powered ships, nuclear-powered aircraft, and finally combat quantum emitters. Who would not mumble, but the touch was under Yeltsin. The beginning was with him.

[aybolyt678]

Quote: hrych

Who would not mumble, but the touch was under Yeltsin. The beginning was with him.

under Yeltsin was not the beginning but the end of science. She has ceased to be prestigious. The title of candidate of sciences began to arouse distrust, like the word magician. As a result, development remained only in the secret areas of military science, where there is huge funding and demand for results. A mediocrity and a thieves cannot get through there, because they need to work there and not bathe in the rays of glory and respect that the title of scientist gives.

[hrych]

He himself answered the question. They made conditions for the Soviet-National Caudle to run away. At that moment, in the defense industry, such as Solomonov were given the opportunity to work and gather students. Also, Kinder was put on Rosatom, who drove out a lot of people of one people, but not the biblical one, there was a boss who left, and before that, apparently, he gathered geniuses from his native villages. And here are the results after 20 years. It is not enough to raise geniuses, they need to clear the way from the swamp of nepotism and mediocrity. Now, progress has begun in civilian research institutes, they have begun to pay, etc.

[hrych]

Quote: Dead Day

"blue" benefactor... made a "holiday" by killing the country.

Blue country - the RSFSR has preserved and retained the most valuable nuclear missile potential by privatizing it. Many of Belovezhye are in bosses that the collapse of the Union, but with this EBN prevented the Novoogorevo libels and the signing of a new union treaty, where the RSFSR is falling apart and autonomies are signing this treaty. Trotskyist Humpback even held a seemingly meaningless referendum. They were preparing a complete collapse, but Yeltsin stole the victory in the Cold War from the West, pretended to be a drunk and a simpleton. He left the indivisible RSFSR and did not allow it to be disarmed. Yars, Bulava, etc., also began to be designed under Tsar Boris. Not everything is clear. It was Gorbach who disarmed.

[Stas157]

Quote: hrych

Blue country - RSFSR saved

In Belovezhskaya Pushcha, where did he dissolve the USSR with his accomplices? But it seems to me that the RSFSR would be better preserved within the Union.

Yes. And now it’s not the RSFSR, but a completely different education! And so the question remains open - what is it really there saved?

In your opinion, the Americans also go to Serbia savedby dividing Yugoslavia?

[hrych]

The Union was doomed because of the national policy of the Bolsheviks, where the Nazis were nurtured in the union republics. And the RSFSR freed itself from the payment of subsidies to almost all the republics, CMEA countries, and other troglodytes. Yugoslavia is the same mine as the division of India, etc., where there are insoluble ethnic and religious contradictions. And the communist Milosevic, instead of a calm divorce from Croatia, climbed to punish them. Initially, in Bosnia, Serbs and Croats fought together with the Islamists. But the communist spoiled everything, ruined it with blood, and eventually surrendered everyone.

[Sasha1979]

There is a day, it's already good. Apparently, with time, science will appear.

[Ka-52]

There is a day, it's already good. Apparently, with time, science will appear.

you know, here in VO, everything is gone in the atmosphere, my statement will not be popular (minus in advance), but science has not gone away. Yes, it has not just a lot of problems, ranging from the technical base to direct implementation. But to say that it does not exist is stupid. In the 30s of the last century, the young Soviet state was also left without science - some scientists emigrated, and some perished in repressions. But due to the fact that there was no choice (the capitalists were not going to share technologies and scientific discoveries with the socialist state), the problem of the development of science had to be solved by ourselves. Now the situation around us is no better. So the government has only one option ahead.

[dmi.pris1]

Yes, the only option. Only how the current and future generations will implement it. And you need to start from school. Which turned into a lecture hall, got dirty in tons of reports, but not in studies

[Stas157]

Quote: Ka-52

my statement will not be popular (minusers ahead), but science has not gone away.

Where is she? The shortage of scientific engineers did not arise from the fact that they left last year. They have been in the pen for thirty years. In oblivion.

What goes around comes around. Scientists and engineers were raised in the USSR, and tops and VIPs were raised in Russia. As a result, we have what we have - an army of mediocre managers with exorbitant salaries and a thin layer of scientists and engineers surviving on the Russian average (median).

[ivan2022]

Quote: Ka-52

you know ... In the 30s of the last century, the young Soviet state was also left without science -

You would be a good gentleman for educational program to open at least Wikipedia the article "science in the USSR" and then you will see the facts, for example, how much money was invested in science in the RSFSR even during the Civil War and how many scientific institutes and scientific journals were opened in the 20s.

Yes, in our time of general debilitation, commentators are not smart enough to understand that this is psychopathic nonsense - to believe that in the 30s "without science," and 10 years later, with an atomic bomb .... WHERE THERE IS INDUSTRY, there is always science. It doesn't happen otherwise.

[Quote Lavrov]

So it is. It's just that it goes in a completely different way.
Even a comparison of how much for science and education the percentage of the budget after the Second World War and now allocated will not give anything (hint - after the Second World War it is many times more (!). The question is in the system, prestige - when the most valuable asset of science is not buildings in the city center or when funds for the sale of liquid scientific assets are headed by children of powerful parents, and when the state really needs science to move forward - then the Vavilovs, Kapitsa, Kurchatovs will appear, Alferovs, Novoselovs, etc.
Otherwise, only Chubais and Ministers will continue in science with dissertations from the verification of which the program code of Antiplagiarism is already smoking.

[Edward Vashchenko]

you know, here in VO, everything is gone in the atmosphere, my statement will not be popular (minus in advance), but science has not gone away.

Everyone just left and all science was repressed, and then the young scientists themselves got up and let's restore science.
Only a few left, and many wonderful discoveries were made there?
The Soviet government and personally Lenin in the most critical years of 1918 and 1919 created scientific institutes, which led the country to victory in 1945.
Under the leadership of the current president, the worst profanation of science in history has taken place, all officials, without exception, whoever you take, have two or three educations, often ENGLISH AND AMERICAN!!! and two academic degrees. There are more candidates and doctors of sciences per square decimeter than anyone else in the world, but there is no science.
And the change in science does not come from the situation in which the country is, but from who and how governs it.

[Lech from Android.]

From our science, I expect breakthrough discoveries, technologies and inventions and their introduction into our society ... this is the key to our victories over the United States and its satellites.
In the meantime, I state with bitterness that our science is somewhere in the corner of the state.
It seems to be there and at the same time it is not visible.

[Zoldat_A]

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Quote: Lech from Android.

I state with bitterness that our science is somewhere in the corner of the state.
It seems to be there and at the same time it is not visible.

Not all science is visible at a glance. And sometimes even from the second ... ()

My mother defended her dissertation on the work of some German poet who died 250 years ago. Nobody remembers him in Germany, but we never knew him. Three or four times I went to Germany at my own expense, sat in libraries. Because we don’t even have it in all encyclopedias, not to mention the fact that it has never been published.
When I asked her why not write a dissertation on someone simpler, she called my father and me Neanderthals and said that we should not get into science. And then we will be sad if she gets into our fishing and hunting affairs ...

Here is such a harsh and formidable science - philology ...

Nevertheless, all those involved - Happy Holidays!

[Lech from Android.]

I asked her why not write a dissertation on someone simpler, she called my father and me Neanderthals and said that we should not get into science.

Actually you said it right .
What at least an ordinary scientist should know for a mere mortal is unbearable.
A real scientist must sacrifice a lot on the way to the Olympus of knowledge.
I'd love to do science in some field... but natural laziness stops all my noble undertakings ... as soon as I think about what I need to go through to find out the innermost secrets of humanity or nature, I immediately want to send everything to hell ... it's easier to sit on the couch and scribble abstruse comments on the forum.

[Grandfather]

Mom, yours, of course, is a great fellow, but she has nothing to do with resolving the issue of the military-technical superiority of the enemy, and we, first of all, need such scientists. Alas.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Dead Day

Mom, yours, of course, is a great fellow, but she has nothing to do with resolving the issue of the military-technical superiority of the enemy, and we, first of all, need such scientists. Alas.

Actually, I'm not talking about my mother and not about military-technical superiority over the enemy.
I'm talking about science...

[Andrey Moskvin]

so far, I state with bitterness that our science is somewhere in the corner of the state.
They themselves said. And then you dream of catching up and overtaking.

[Lech from Android.]

Quote: Andrey Moskvin

They themselves said. And then you dream of catching up and overtaking.

Without the efforts of our entire society, it will not be possible to catch up and overtake.
There was an attempt by our leadership to create Skolkovo and Rosnano ... they were left at the mercy of scammers ... a failed undertaking.
I can’t even imagine how our science and technology will develop in the future ... I don’t see a foothold for them.

[Andrey Moskvin]

In my opinion, our society has one point of support - decent wages. There are enough minds, but they just leave ...

[Sergei_tactics]

In the meantime, I state with bitterness that our science is somewhere in the corner of the state.
It seems to be there and at the same time it is not visible.

Because don't look. If you constantly watch TNT and read only Internet gossip, then the news of science will certainly go unnoticed. You just think that science is only as significant as the discovery of the Higgs boson.

[Lech from Android.]

Quote: Sergey_tactics

You just think that science is only as significant as the discovery of the Higgs boson.

By no means... I believe in the talents and abilities of our scientists and engineers... to reveal and use them for the benefit of our country, this should become the number 1 state task.

[Eliminator]

In order for your expectations to come true, work in science must be prestigious.
And most importantly, this is the continuity of generations, which was broken and not only in science.
But not everything is so sad, it seems to be getting better, not so quickly, of course, but still.

[Murmur 55]

Lyokha from Android , the fact of the matter is that the task of science is to INVENT and develop, prove and explain. But other people should bring this into our world, and a scientist or research institute comes to us with another development or project, and he or they don’t need this PEPELATS, there is no money for this GRARITSAPU. And then we are surprised that there is no science.

[Grandfather]

Quote: Murmur 55

Lyokha from Android, the fact of the matter is that the task of science is to INVENT and develop, prove and explain. But other people should bring it into our world,

Rogozin ... Tsar Volg.

[rotmistr60]

The holiday is considered professional for scientists, teachers and students conducting scientific and research activities.

Almost every week you don’t have time to join the congratulations of the VO editors involved in this or that Day ... Today we congratulate scientists, teachers and students and wish them to really make a great contribution to science, the creation of new technologies and fundamental discoveries.

[uporov65]

They (scientists, teachers) make their contribution, our front line is the audience, our enemy is the lack of ideology and illiteracy of yesterday's schoolchildren. Our NVO has been going on since 1992, while we were retreating, perhaps from September 1, 2023 (with the introduction of new GEFs) we will go on the offensive. It must be stated: we do not have a military-industrial complex, the population does not help us in any way, we are glad that it has fallen from the master's

[Lech from Android.]

Quote: Andrey Moskvin

There are enough minds, but they just leave ...

Those who leave do not make the difference... the problem here is of a different nature... now the minds of young people are focused on consumer incentives... to have a cool car, a glamorous girl, a villa with a lot of dough on the coast of Spain or Florida... everything... this is the limit of their mind.
And then even the grass does not grow.
And there is no longer any incentive to improve your environment in some village of Gadyukino in your own country ... this is very bad ... our state weakly stimulates young people for the prosperity of our country.

[Andrey Moskvin]

the state weakly stimulates young people for the prosperity of our country.
So I wrote about it.

[DefenderofTruth]

Because the Kremlin encourages their children to study at Harvard and Cambridge, and not at Moscow State University and MGIMO.

[Million]

Science is a long-term investment, and the guys in the Kremlin are used to quick money. Here is the result.

[Illanatol]

Quote: hrych

And now we see a breakthrough ... with us. Hypersound, nuclear-powered ships, nuclear-powered aircraft, and finally combat quantum emitters. Who would not mumble, but the touch was under Yeltsin. The beginning was with him.

There was no backlog under Yeltsin. Then a real nightmare was going on in science, sitting on a starvation ration and it was constantly "restructured". The research institute's budget was barely enough to pay utility bills and to pay penny salaries. Buying new appliances and consumables is only a dream. There were few grants and they were cheap. Leakage of young professionals abroad - in the thousands.

All more or less significant developments are from Soviet times. And lasers and hypersound and MHD generators ... the truth is not heard of ekranolet, but very promising.
It's just that in Soviet times a lot was not reported in the open press, but now ... success for a ruble, PR - for a hundred rubles.
As for the Putin era ... in the "zero" at least the salaries of scientists were raised significantly, and overall funding was increased. Academicians were slightly pinched, who turned into "godfathers" from science and often used the property of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sometimes in an "inappropriate way." But then again the situation began to worsen, alas. The degree of dependence of the software of our research institutes on the West is simply colossal, and this affects the effectiveness of scientific work.

[Illanatol]

Quote: Murmur 55

But other people should bring this into our world, and a scientist or research institute comes to us with another development or project, and he or they don’t need this PEPELATS, there is no money for this GRARITSAPU.

A bet was made on "private initiative", but it did not materialize. Whether anyone likes it or not, scientific and technical developments in our country can actually be carried out either by the state itself or with the help of the state. Chastnikov, their "Ilon masks" are not visible on the horizon.

[Illanatol]

Quote: Million

Science is a long-term investment, and the guys in the Kremlin are used to quick money. Here is the result.

We translate the arrows. Alas, but in reality only the "Kremlin boys" at the very least support science. They need it, and the planning horizon of the Kremlin's will be just a bit bigger than that of the home-grown oligarchs. The latter just do not need science for free.
How much the state unfastens for science and education, and how much private capital. The "invisible hand of the market" staunchly folded a combination of three fingers.

[DefenderofTruth]

In the USSR there was a cult of the Man of Labor, science, progress, reason.
In the bourgeois Russian Federation - the cult of hucksters and speculators, grabbers, profit, money-grubbing, embezzlement, easy unearned money.
The USSR allocated 5% of GNP for science from the budget - today only Israel allocates so much for science.
In the Russian Federation - 2,95% of GDP.

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