This volume of archival materials continues the first collection of memoirs about the people and events of the Badkhyz Reserve, published in the summer of 2021. The first volume of the "Badkhyz Archives" was published on the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the reserve (1941) and on the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Konstantinovich Gorelov (1931-2018). The authors of many memoirs agreed that without Gorelov, the history of the Badkhyz Reserve is unthinkable in the brightest and most interesting years of its existence, in the "Gorelov" period, which coincided with the Khrushchev-Brezhnev era in the USSR.
For scientific intellectuals of the short periods of the "thaw" and "detente" (1960-70s), Gorelov's name was a symbol and synonym for Badkhyz. Chance and fate brought this amazingly free and fearless man, the son of a Wrangel officer who grew up in Bulgaria and a student of the famous emigrant zoologist V. E. Martino, to the southernmost edge of the decrepit empire in 1956. This volume contains a new biographical article by the famous historian of science Evg. Shergalin, which summarizes information about Vladimir Emmanuilovich Martino (1890-1961) and a number of additional materials. Brief information and essays about the workers of the Badkhyz Reserve, starting from the 1940s, are provided. The volume also includes rare materials, including one of the first articles about Badkhyz by G. I. Ishunin and E. P. Korovin (Priroda magazine, 1945); an annotated list of Badkhyz plants. We also included the article by M. Cherkasova about Badkhyz from the magazine “Knowledge is Power” (1973) and a number of rare publications by Yu. K. Gorelov.
The book is intended for anyone interested in the history of science and environmental protection in Central Asia and the USSR. You can download the book from the link.