Приведены отобранные наиболее значимые фрагменты из монографии Э. С. Кульпина «Социоестественная история. От метода – к теории, от теории – к практике», опубликованной в 2014 г. издательством МБА и в том же году переизданной в качестве электронной книги издательством «Учитель». We open the present volume of the journal with addressing to the fundamental legacy of the founder, main creative source and promoter of socio-historical approach – Eduard Salmanovich Kulpin. In what follows we present the most elaborated and essential parts from his book “Socio-Natural History: From Method to a Theory, from Theory to Practice” published in 2014. This publication was discussed and approved at the Round Table “Socio-Natural History: Prospects of development” held in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences on March 11, 2016.

This paper considers the interpretation of historicism and historical method that was given by a philosopher of science, Helmut Seifert. For this philosopher, the subject of study of historical science is comprehensive, and does not refer only to political history events, or the works of great men, but it refers to state institutions, churches, legal and economic systems, different languages that have become historical, all types of records and testimonies. The task of a historian (whom he compares with a criminologist), is to successfully discover the facts of the past, even when historical sources do not present them directly

The paper problematizes methodological status of visualization in digital humanities .
Digital humanities offer a critical comprehension of the social, epistemological and methodological effects of using computer in
contemporary humanities. The process of knowledge production is considered here in the light of computation. It turns out to
be shared between human thinking, technologies, digital networks, working of algorithms and program code. In such conditions
visualization becomes a point of junction between a human and a computer. The production of meanings and interpretations here
becomes especially intensive. At the same time orders and strategies of visualization used in various disciplines of humanities are
often not comprehended critically by the scholars. In such situation posing methodological questions to digital visualization from
the point of constructionism is especially timely.
The starting point for this paper was the challenges we faced in the Obninsk digital project. In order to develop visual analytical
tools we conducted our research on the existing visualization experience in different digital humanities projects. With the help of
comparative analysis we identified and described the main problems and effects of digital visualization use. Basing on the results
of the analysis, we will show how turning to the idea of data visualization reduc es epistemological potential of digital visualization
in the humanities, and how new visual technologies change practices of work with visualizations. We will show also how using multidisciplinary
approach, the order and methodology of kno wledge production can be changed through visualization technologies.
Egor Shevelev Screening Methodology: Visualization in Digital Humanities // The Russian Academic Journal, Vol. 29, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 0-0

The article contains the principles for evaluating the effectiveness of the use of the resource potential of the region. The characterization of these principles can form the approaches to the understanding of the effectiveness of resource potential, taking into account new methodological approaches. The author introduces the concept of efficient use of the resource potential of the region.
Valery Bondarenko Methodological approaches near determination of efficiency of the use of resource potential in spatial format // The Russian Academic Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 0-0

The paper problematizes methodological status of visualization in digital humanities . Digital humanities offer a critical comprehension of the social, epistemological and methodological effects of using computer in contemporary humanities. The process of knowledge production is considered here in the light of computation. It turns out to be shared between human thinking, technologies, digital networks, working of algorithms and program code. In such conditions visualization becomes a point of junction between a human and a computer. The production of meanings and interpretations here becomes especially intensive. At the same time orders and strategies of visualization used in various disciplines of humanities are often not comprehended critically by the scholars. In such situation posing methodological questions to digital visualization from the point of constructionism is especially timely. The starting point for this paper was the challenges we faced in the Obninsk digital project. In order to develop visual analytical tools we conducted our research on the existing visualization experience in different digital humanities projects. With the help of comparative analysis we identified and described the main problems and effects of digital visualization use. Basing on the results of the analysis, we will show how turning to the idea of data visualization reduc es epistemological potential of digital visualization in the humanities, and how new visual technologies change practices of work with visualizations. We will show also how using multidisciplinary approach, the order and methodology of kno wledge production can be changed through visualization technologies.

The article deals with the main directions of the discussion which was devoted to the problem of Times of Trouble (Smuta) and revolutions in Russian history. The main focus is on the conceptual definitions of the terms “Times of Trouble” and “revolution” by the participants of the discussion, as well as on the interpretation of the theme “archaism versus Modernity”.
Fursov A.I. Smuty i revoljucii: dialektika vnutrennego i vneshnego: 1-ja chast': Smuta versus revolyutsiya, arkhaika versus Modern [Smuta and Revolutions: Dialectics of Internal and External: 1st part: Smuta versus Revolution, Archaism versus Modernity] // Obozrevatel'–Observer. 2012. No.3. P.22–35