Institute of History and Archeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia:

E. G. Neklyudov, Chief Researcher, Doctor of Historical Sciences, ntplant9@mail.ru

The article describes early history of the first Russia’s publication in the field of science and technology – Gornyi Zhurnal. The solemn meeting on 21 March 1825 devoted to establishment of the Academic Committee at the Mining and Salt Department for preparation and publication of the Journal, as well as the solemnmeetin g on 20 March 1826 on the first anniversary of the Committee are pictured. The organizers and participants of the meetings are presented, and the contents of speeches, plans and reports are delivered. In his speech at the first meeting, the Department Director E. V. Karneev gave grounds for the necessity of a mining publication and presented the work program of the Academic Committee including leading theoreticians and practitioners in mining. It was supposed to elect science editors from the members of the Academic Committee for each of 10 topics of the Journal to review scientific contributions at to present them at the meetings of the Committee. For preparation of the Journal’s articles, regional mining societies were founded to be headed by managers of governmental mining districts and salt-works, and from the list of the “salt of the earth” officials, “correspondents” were selected to present the prepared and discussed materials at the metropolitan Academic Committee. Discussed at the second meeting, the scientific and financial performance of the Academic Committee during its first year of life proved the popularity and business success of the Journal. Gornyi Zhurnal totally met expectations of the founders and, as the Minister of Finance E. F. Kankrin said, the Journal became “an immediate tool for the spread of various knowledge ... promoting improvement in the mining and salt industries”. The other governmental bodies followed the lead of the mining authorities and established their own scientific and technical periodicals using the proposed performance model.

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