Participant in the Great Patriotic War, Scholar and Educator – Boris Birykov: Notes on the Eve of His 105th Birthday
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2026-2-25-37
Abstract
Aim. To analyse conclusions made by the outstanding Russian logician, historian and methodologist of science, researcher of information culture Boris Biryukov, to identify milestones in his academic biography, to study his research into the history of logic, and to unveil the understudied aspects of his scientific activity.
Methodology. The author offers retrospective analysis of sources on the history of logic made using biographical and comparative-historical methods.
Results. The article traces the expansion of Boris Biryukov’s field of research at the final stage of his research biography, examines his search for the boundaries of logical formalisation, and reviews the results of his research in the history of logic. The author assumes that Biryukov’s conclusions about the logical and philosophical heritage of such thinkers as F. L. G. Frege, H. Grassmann, and R. Grassmann are innovative. The author also addresses Biryukov’s contribution to culture studies.
Research implications. The study has theoretical and practical value, as it sheds light on the development of Russian philosophical and logical thought in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
About the Author
I. P. Pryadko
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (National Research University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor P. Pryadko – Cand. Sci. (Culturology), Senior Lecturer
Moscow
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