Moscow State Institute of Culture

The author attempts to characterize some aspects of the educational work and creative work of composer M.A. Shmotova, revealing important aspects of the formation of the Creative Workshop association at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The idea for its creation belonged to composer S.S. Berinsky, editor of the Creativity section of the Musical Academy journal, and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. The All-Union Seminar of Young Composers at the Composers’ House in Ivanovo became the platform for the organization of the Sergey Berinsky’s Music Club, where listeners could discover a panorama of the latest music by Russian composers from across Russia. The culmination of the club’s activities and the seminar’s work was the Creative Workshop festival, held in Moscow in 1997, whose program included performances of large-scale and chamber works written during the seminar. The author of this article traces the development of a new generation of composers in the context of the formation of the Creative Workshop association under the leadership of S.S. Berinsky. After his death, composer M.A. Shmotova took on the task of continuing the club, seminar, and promoting contemporary Russian music. An analysis of some of her vocal music confirms the cultural traditions of the Creative Workshop, embracing musical composition as a meaningful phenomenon and fostering creative cross-fertilization through fruitful collaboration with representatives of various national schools in Russia. One such project, in particular, was the cantata Blue Ice of Baikal, written in the Buryat language for D.V. Pokrovsky’s ensemble, saxophone, theremin, percussion, organ, and violin, which was performed at a festival in Irkutsk in 2019.

This article overcomes the traditional cognitive limitation of viewing early childhood development as a "stage of ignorance" and advances the proposition that the cognitive process of infants and young children is essentially a reflection of their active participation in a meaningful, structurally ordered "world of learning." This learning process is deeply rooted in the internal, pre-significative cognitive structure of infants and is realized through systematized motor exploration and a variety of play activities. A thorough understanding of the essential characteristics, internal system, forms of manifestation, and developmental process of early learning serves as an important theoretical basis for the scientific extension of music education to younger ages, affirming the value of early musical experience, and establishing meaningful musical experiences for children 本文克服了将儿童早期发展视为"无知阶段"的传统认知局限 提出婴幼儿的认知过程本质上是他们积极参与到一个富有意义、结构有序的"学习世界"的反映。这一学习过程深深植根于婴幼儿内在的、前符号化的认知结构中 并通过系统化的动作探索与多样化的游戏活动得以实现。深刻理解早期学习的本质特征、内在体系、表现形式与发展过程 为科学地将音乐教育延伸至低龄阶段、肯定早期音乐经验的价值并为儿童奠定有意义的音乐经验提供了重要的理论基础

The algorithms of work on the generation of creative and design ideas for visual material used further for professional or creative purposes are investigated.The nuances of the psychological and professional aspects of creative work are studied, as well as the possibilities of a person to increase his creativity. Various domestic and foreign experience in generating creative ideas, time-tested practices, their hybrid use, as well as their own experience in this field are considered. Various aspects of the psychological properties of creative personalities when working on the generation of creative content, their interaction with information, new tools such as artificial intelligence (neural networks) are considered. As well as individual work and work in a creative team. The self-assessment of the creative product produced, as well as methods for increasing one's own creativity, are also being investigated. A hybrid research method is used. Theoretical in the form of an analysis of existing methods of creative work and practical in the form of various techniques to improve the efficiency of visual material generation. It is explained from an expert point of view by which method the designer came to this or that creative idea, to predict what trends in the development of design can be seen in the coming decades. The shortcomings in the algorithms of the creative process are revealed. Indicates how to tune in to creative work and achieve the desired results. 1.The profession of a designer requires being a polymath, at the same time an artist, a graphic artist, a copywriter, and a psychologist, as well as knowing about many other professions. 2.And this, in turn, forces the designer to constantly keep his brain in good shape, constantly train it, otherwise it will lose its effectiveness. Master various techniques for generating creative and design content. 3.Be inquisitive, attentive and observant. Constantly record various thoughts and ideas that arise. Take pictures of the views, details, and objects you like. 4.Also, navigate the current trends of various types of art, etc. Read, watch movies, listen to a variety of musical works. But only those that are not below a certain cultural level.

The International Library and Philosophical School (ILPS) was first organized in 2004 in Kaliningrad, where I. Kant lived and worked. The legacy of the great philosopher became its theoretical basis. In 2024, when the world scientific community was widely celebrating the 300th anniversary of I. Kant’s birth, the 20th Anniversary Session of the ILPS was held.The conceptual idea of the ILPS is to contribute to the scientific search for answers to questions concerning the prospects of libraries in the new socio-cultural paradigm of society development, formed under the influence of global digitalization, as well as to the understanding of the role of information, books and reading in the modern world as socio-cultural phenomena and important channels of social communications in general. The interdisciplinary approach is realized by combining the efforts of philosophers, culturologists, sociologists, psychologists, scientists, ecologists, librarians, book historians, specialists in the field of social informatics and communication studies from different countries.For 20 years of work, the attention of the ILPS participants has been focused on analyzing the modern information space: its genesis, structure and properties, development trends, information socio-cultural interaction in modern society and the role of libraries in this process, as well as the phenomenon of information in the context of historical development of society. A range of broader problems has been covered: meaning-genetic theory of culture, historical continuity of cultures, cultural and social anthropology, etc.Important topics of the ILPS scientific programme also included research of the ontological status of the book in the historical and cultural aspect, analysis of philosophical and cultural models of personal social identity and theoretical foundations of cultural and information competence as basic markers of members of modern society, the role of books and reading in their formation.On the ILPS platforms the following topical philosophical aspects of library science were discussed: social and functional metamorphism as a regularity of historical development of libraries, interpretation of the concept “library” in the modern system of social and human sciences, cognitive function of the library and its role in knowledge management, ontological bases of realization of the memorial function of the modern library in the context of preservation of documentary heritage in the digital age, etc.Over 200 specialists and scientists from various branches of knowledge delivered reports, lectures, presentations and master-classes, which made a significant contribution to the development of research potential of library and information sciences, enriched them in conceptual, epistemological, methodological and heuristic aspects. The ILPS has stimulated interdisciplinary scientific research in the humanities and technology, contributed to the expansion of their problem field.

The author examines the issues of administering the library sector on the territory of the Russian Federation during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) with the focus on the role of the People’s Education Commissariat (Narkompros) in reorganizing the sector of librarianship. The author analyzes the status of libraries during the early war years: the system of library services and library staffing were deteriorating, the libraries were unreasonably closing. The problems of library collections evacuation are accentuated. Narkompros’ leading role in reorganizing librarianship during the war, stabilizing the library network, solving the tasks of war, defense and economy, is emphasized. Narkompros supported the library services in hospitals and contributed to stabilizing the national system of librarianship administration, and leaded the revival of the libraries destroyed by the nazis. The author concludes that the libraries’ war experience of the libraries can be used today.

The issue of reorganizing and reconstructing historical neighborhoods is one of the most relevant and complex tasks in the context of growing urbanization. The complexity of the task lies in finding a balance between preserving the historical character of the development and creating comfortable living conditions. On one hand, there is a need to delicately and accurately preserve, and sometimes even reproduce, the historical appearance of the urban environment, while on the other, to create a comfortable, safe, and sustainable environment that meets the needs of the modern urban dweller. This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of approaches to the reorganization of historical neighborhoods in Russia and China. The relevance of the research is determined by the importance of preserving cultural heritage and the appearance of historical neighborhoods, as well as creating a comfortable urban environment in conditions of growing urbanization in both Russia and China. The study used methods of analyzing the existing experience of reorganizing historical neighborhoods in Russia (RF) and China (PRC), field surveys, and comparative analysis. The main approaches considered in the RF are comprehensive, environmental, and contextual, while in China they focus on preserving cultural identity, integrative, and adaptive approaches. The article proposes a methodology for identifying basic and specific principles in approaches to the reorganization of historical neighborhoods in Russia and China. Additionally, the study defines the characteristics and proposes typical schemes for historical neighborhoods in the RF and China. The results of the comparative analysis of the approaches to the reorganization of historical neighborhoods in Russia and China are presented, along with the advantages, disadvantages, key differences, and similarities between the approaches of the two countries. Practical aspects of implementing these approaches are examined through real examples of historical neighborhood reorganization. The article offers recommendations for professionals on the practical integration of approaches that contribute to both the preservation of the appearance of historical neighborhoods and cultural heritage, as well as the creation of a comfortable and functional urban environment.

The adoption of Federal Law No. 10-FZ dated February 6, 2023 «On Probation in the Russian Federation» is an important event in the development of the modern legal system of Russia. The issue of the relationship between probation and penal legislation in the Russian Federation is of theoretical and practical importance in the areas of legal regulation and law enforcement. In the areas of penal and probation, there are legal relations conditioned on the execution of criminal penalties and other measures of a criminal nature imposed by the court. The general purpose of both the penal legislation of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on Probation is to prevent the commission of repeated crimes. At the same time, with the adoption of the Federal Law on Probation, the scope of penal law in the Russian Federation is expanding. At the same time, it cannot be stated with certainty that the institute of probation is an integral part of the penal legislation. Penal and probation legal relations differ during the period of implementation of post-penitentiary probation. The subject of the Federal Law on Probation goes beyond the scope of the subject of penal legislation by regulating relations to provide assistance to persons released from punishment after serving a term of imprisonment or forced labor. In this connection, researchers note the intersectoral nature of probation, primarily post-penitentiary. Executive probation and penitentiary probation can be considered as an institution (sub-institute), a source of penal law. The Federal Law on Probation fills in the regulatory insufficiency of Russian penal law, defines the necessary directions for the development of penal legislation, determines the development of the doctrine of domestic penal law. Taking into account the common goals and differences between penal legislation and probation legislation, the necessity of delineating the spheres of their legal regulation is justified on the basis of determining the limits of penal relations operating during the execution of punishments and other measures of a criminal legal nature, as well as the limits of probation legal relations associated with the execution of punishments and other measures of a criminal legal nature, which then continue to be implemented within the framework of post-penitentiary probation.

The chapter considers methodological approaches to the development of business communication skills of students of a non-linguistic university in a foreign language based on educational speech situations that allow reconstructing the conditions of business intercultural communication that are significant for educational purposes. In the context of interactive, situational and communicative approach, some stages and features of the development of intercultural business communication are specified. The advantage of a communicative task from a methodological point of view as a stimulus for speech activity and a means of managing the student's speech behavior in a specific situation of intercultural business communication are noted. A business game is characterized as the most effective stage of teaching a foreign language in the field of intercultural business communication; recommendations are given for the use of business games in the educational process of a non-linguistic university. The conceptual foundations of gaming technologies are described and the methodology of their use within the framework of interactive and communicative approaches is substantiated.

The purpose of the study is to identify the main concertmaster competencies that ensure high quality and productivity of the pianist's collaboration with soloists–vocalists. The article raises the question of the typology of concertmaster competencies, examines the role of various competencies in the performance of the tandem "vocalist/pianist". Their specificity is considered by the example of the concertmaster's work on the Tchaikovsky romance "To Forget so Soon". The scientific novelty of the research lies in the systematization and differentiation of the content of competencies. As a result of the research, the boundaries of the following concertmaster competencies have been identified and defined: performing (highly professional), musical-theoretical, pedagogical, organizational, socio-psychological competencies. The prospects for the implementation of a competence-based approach in concertmaster activity are determined.

The author formulates the principles and conditions for a comprehensive systemic representation of a library, based on the analytical description of its generalized functional model. The author presents a library model that combines both various local models of qualitative characteristics and quantitative methods of mathematical modeling. The author provides examples of the strict conclusions of the main quantitative indicators of library activity based on the data of the conceptual models of library activity described verbally.