Historical Science at the Order of the Badge of Honour Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufrc Ras Through the Prism of Scientific Biographies and Memory Discourse

This paper provides an overview of publications of historical, biographical and memorial content and highlights intellectual history in a single institution – the Institute of History, Language and Literature. The scientific contribution of individual historians is revealed against the background of the development of different chronological periods of Soviet historiography. The article highlights some areas of relevant timeless research, examines scientific continuity and intergenerational communication, the preservation of academic traditions and other issues important for understanding the development of the scientific environment. The observations obtained during the study made it possible to identify groups of scientific generations of historians and their contribution to the development of regional historical science. The Institute’s communities of historians were formed under the influence of ideological, socio-cultural and historical changes. Since the 1930s , the intellectual history of the institution has been formed with the participation of representatives of academic Moscow and St. Petersburg historical schools. Being a member of the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences is the next major milestone in the development of academic traditions, the creation of scientific ties and cooperation with major scientific institutions of the country, the time of the emergence of such scientific fields as ethnographic and archaeological. The tradition of continuity of academic research approaches at the Institute was shown by the resumption of the archeographic project “Materials on the History of Bashkortostan”, after 50 and 79 years, which became an indicator of a stable scientific tradition and a high methodological level of individual historians. Thus, each generation contributed to the development of historical science, scientific continuity provided joint research projects, scientific guidance and professional mentoring.