Abstract
Academician I.I. Lepyokhin (1740-1802) is known primarily as the head of one of the “Orenburg expeditions” in physics, which belonged among the Great Academic Expeditions of 1768-1774. Thanks to the activity of his detachment in the Middle and Lower Volga regions, the first complex scientific picture of the macro-region was formed. Little, however, is known to the general public about Lepyokhin’s personality and the activities of the Grand Academic Expeditions. The historical memory of these extraordinary scientific events and their participant explorers and educators in the era of Catherine the Great needs to be revived. The authors describe their system of research and educational activities implemented in the form of a scientific and educational expedition and the youth school “Academician I.I. Lepyokhin’s Floating University”, as well as their project for a complex of memorial signs and plaques, and their conception for future thematic inter-museum exhibitions.
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