In 1996, the conference ‘Higher Education: Humanities and the Humanistic Basis of Education’ resulted in the establishment of the Trans-Baikal Branch of the Humanities Academy in Chita, which was to give a boost to the development of humanities in Trans-Baikalia and provide support for young and promising scholars in the region. The following year witnessed the opening of the Academy Branch. M. V. Konstantinov, Doctor of History, was elected chairman of the Transbaikal Branch of the Humanities Academy. The Transbaikal Branch organized a series of scientific, theoretical and practical events, as well as started publishing an academic journal.
First, what is nowadays known as the Humanitarian Vector was called Vestnik/The Herald/of the Transbaikal Branch of the Humanities Academy. Its first issue came out in 1997, having materialised thanks to an initiative of the researchers from the N.G. Chernyshevsky Zabaikalsky State Pedagogical University (nowThe Transbaikal State University). The first editor-in-chief ofthe Humanitarian Vectorwas D.A. Krylov, Candidate (PhD in) of Philosophy, with V.V. Kulikov – Candidate (PhD in) of Philosophy – as his deputy.
The first editorial board included S. E. Arshinskaya, L. I. Konovalova, V. V. Popov, B. D. Semashkin, with I. N. Makarova asthe Board’s Executive Secretary. The members of the Editorial Committee were V. A. Abramov, A. O. Barinov, F. F. Bigzayev, T. V. Voronchenko, B. V. Emel’yanov, V. K. Kolosov, O.V. Kuznetsov, V. V. Mazalov, V. V. Mantatov, A. V. Pavlov, P. B. Popov, D .E. Selyutin and A. S. Chuprov. The co-chairmen of the Board were R. F. Geniatulin, Head of the Chita Region Administration, V. P. Gorlachev, Rector of the N. G. Chernyshevsky Zabaikalsky State Pedagogical University and M.V. Konstantinov, Vice-Rector for Research. Later, the editorial board changed its composition several times.
The journal was published by the university printing department headed by G.T. Chernyak and D.A. Krylov. The editorial board underwent a series of organisational transformations. Thus, in May 1999, at the 5th Humanities Academy Conference in St. Petersburg,the Humanitarian Vectorwas awarded the St. Petersburg Humanities Academy Prize. The journal has always been a biannual publication. In March 2001, the journal was registered in the Ministry of Press and its circulation rose from 500 to 1,000 copies, and itscontributors were not only domestic (Russian) but also foreign scholars.
Among the permanent sections of the journal became ‘Philosophy’, ‘Pedagogy and Psychology’, ‘The Transbaikal Meridian’, ‘The Historical Pantheon’, ‘Ab ovo’ (that published articles of promising undergraduate and graduate students), ‘Experience, methodology, program’, ‘Reviews’ and ‘Scholarly life’. V.V. Kulikov’s section ‘Philosophical Poetry of Russia’ added a flavour of originality to the journal. Under the auspices of the Board of Vocational Education, Science and Youth Policy of Chita region, a literary miscellany In the World of Sciencecame out in 2003. Because of financial and organizational problems, the journal and the literary miscellany ceased to exist the same year. But after a four-year period, on September 19, 2007, a new issue of The Humanitarian Vector saw the light.
Since 2008, the journal Humanitarian Vector has been published within the framework of the Research Laboratory of Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations headed by N.M. Subbotina, Doctor of Philosophy. The journal specializes inscientific articles, research and teaching materials in the sphere of humanities.
At present, the Humanitarian Vector is a serial publication with an international standard serial number (ISSN), a new design, fresh subject areas, updated membership of the editorial board and its articles reviewed before publication. Any new issue of the journal is sent to the libraries of the leading universities in Russia, the Russian Book Chamber, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as the libraries of the Transbaikal Region.
The Humanitarian Vector is included into the Russian Science Citation Index and registered in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, the international library directory and database.
Journal materials can be viewed and read in:
– electronic library system University library on-line,
– open access scientific libraryCyberLeninka,
– electroniclibrarysystemIPRbooks.
