11 Facts About Arkady Melua

Arkady Ivanovich Melua is the general director and editor-in-chief of the scientific publishing house, Humanistica.

Arkady Melua participated in the construction of an educational nuclear reactor in one of the military schools.

Arkady Melua was an author of one of the country's first lunar inventions of special facilities and research equipment.

Arkady Melua worked in the Scientific Council on Space Research in Siberia and in the Far East, the Scientific Council on Biosphere of the Presidium of the USSR, the Commission for the Study of Earth's natural resources from space, the Commission for the Study of Scientific Heritage of Academician Vladimir Vernadsky.

Arkady Melua has published over 1200 scientific works on peaceful use of space achievements, ecology, history, science and technology, special engineering, as well as on some aspects of financial market development in Russia in 1990s.

Arkady Melua worked as a senior research associate and was a branch director of the Institute of History of Science and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences until 1995.

Arkady Melua founded a series of biographical encyclopedias "Humanistica"; in 1990, he published the first vocabulary program and biographical encyclopedia, author and publisher of the first published in this series of volumes, including those on the Internet.

Arkady Melua developed and is implementing a plan to create the biographical database and issued a 100-volume Russian Biographical Encyclopedia, including the use of the archives of Russian diasporas in more than 120 countries.

Arkady Melua was the initiator of the study of the Nobel Movement as a social phenomenon in the history of science and society.

Arkady Melua was the first person in the Soviet Union who signed the key documents in this area: with the leadership of the Nobel Foundation Declaration on Joint Action in this regard, with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences dissemination of information in Russia about the Nobel Prize winners.

Arkady Melua's books are in large libraries of different countries: Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State Library, National Library of Russia, The British Library, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy and other.