Abstract
The purpose of the work is studying the foundation documents of prof. A.A. Kuzin, doctor in Engineering; the records that are kept in the funds of the Science and Education Centre of the Human Studies Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Those documents are viewed as the source on the history of forming the scientific and educational direction within the context of the professional biography of a scholar and an educator. The article considers history of the transfer and the description of the archive documents. The author analyzes the main facts of the biography of A.A. Kuzin (1911–1993), the features of his personality and intellect, which helped him to combine the ability to precise engineering thinking and a broad humanitarian vision of processes and phenomena. The characteristic and archival parameters of the fund documents are presented in terms of their thematic focus, type-species and functional properties. A conditional “thesaurus” is proposed, containing the subjectthematic headings to systematize the documents of the fund. A review of the documents reflecting the main stages of A.A. Kuzin’s life and work is provided: the formation of an intellectual creative personality in early youth, the development of engineering knowledge, getting an education in history and archives, the beginning of scientific-research and pedagogical activities at the IAI (History and Archives Institute), the research work on the history of science and technology, the development of the priority areas of that research, the creation of the Department of Scientific and Technical Archives at the MGIAI (Moscow State History and Archives Institute), the advancement of a new area of archival knowledge – archiving of scientific, technical and filmphoto-phono documents. Conclusions are drawn that the documental fund of A.A. Kuzin is a fund of personal origin of a multidisciplinary thematic orientation; the materials of the fund make it possible to study the stages of the development of academic knowledge in the history of science and technology and its integration into the content of archival education. A.A. Kuzin is an innovator of historical, technical and archival knowledge of the second half of the 20th century; the documents of his fund in the Science and Education Centre of the Human Studies Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities have a significant source-studying potential for the history of science and education, the history of scientific and educational organizations (IHST RAS [Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences] and IAI RSUH)
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