State budget organization of the Komi republic “Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin”.

State Budget Organization of the Republic of Komi “Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin” and the Institute of the Humanitarian Sciences of the Syktyvkar State University announce the holding of the Republican Olympiad “Life and creative work of P.A. Sorokin”.

On the 24^th of February the staff of the Center “Nasledie” received guests from Ust-Kulom. 20 pupils of the Ust-Kulom school together with their teachers came to get acquainted with the biography of Pitirim Sorokin.

The researcher from St. Petersburg Marina Lomonosova made the important discovery in the study of the heritage of Pitirim Sorokin. Up to this moment, the earliest works of the world-famous sociologist date back to 1910. Pitirim Sorokin’s article “Something about modern fiction”, which he published in 1907 in the journal “Ogonki”, was found.

On the 18^th of February, at the school № 9 (Krasnozatonsky), the methodists of the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin conducted two lectures in which they told the eleventh classes about Pitirim Sorokin’s attitude towards war and revolution.

The regular issue of the journal “Nasledie” was released, in which the latest research of the heritage of Pitirim Sorokin were published, as well as the works of the participants of the International Scientific Conference “Pitirim Sorokin and paradigms of the global development of the XXIth century”.

The full-text version of the journal is available on the link: http://www.rksorokinctr.org/images/nauka/nasledie5.pdf

On the 4^th of February, the day of the birth of P.A. Sorokin, a landmark event took place in the scientific life of the Komi Republic – the Round Table “Perspectives for studying life and creative work of Pitirim Sorokin”, prepared and conducted by the Center “Nasledie”. Commemorated on the birthday of the great sociologist, the Round Table gathered as well-known scientists who have long studied the heritage of Pitirim Sorokin and local historians, whose work largely depends on the transfer of knowledge about P. Sorokin’s heritage to the younger generation.

On the 29^th of January the methodists of the Center “Nasledie” visited the school № 35 with lectures on the childhood and student years of Pitirim Sorokin and his life in emigration.

On the 27^th of January the participants of the Republican contest of research works on the topic “War and revolution in the assessments of Pitirim Sorokin” were awarded within the closing the Republican scientific and practical conference “Young researchers to the Republic of Komi”.

From October 1,2014 to January 20, 2015, the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin in the framework of the scientific and practical conference “Young researchers to the Republic of Komi” conducted the absentee Republican contest of research works on the topic “War and revolution in the assessments of Pitirim Sorokin” among students of the educational institutions of the Komi Republic.

On the 4^th of February, 2015 the researcher from the University of Nagasaki (Japan) Josino Kodzi visited the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin. The scientist is interested in the early works of P. Sorokin, dedicated to the Komi region and written by him in the period from 1910 to 1914.