Ėlektrichestvo (ISSN: 0013-5380)

Description

The journal Elektrichestvo was established in 1880 by outstanding Russian electrical engineers, who were united in the Sixth (Electrical) Sector of the Russian Imperial Technical Society. After that, there were two periods of time during which the journal was not published: from 1918 to 1921 and from 1941 to 1943.
The first issue of the journal, which was published more than 130 years ago, formulated its purposes and objectives: "... development of various questions relating to electrical engineering and dissemination of necessary information both on the theory of electricity and on its applications in science and for public use. ... The journal is intended to inform its readers about all newest inventions in this field in Russia and abroad ... . It is also intended to keep an eye on the electrical literature and provide reports about the most important works ...".
The scope of topics covered by the journal varied depending on the development of electrical engineering and electric power engineering, advent of new scientific lines in these fields, and in accordance with the challenges faced by science and engineering at different stages of the country's history.
It should be pointed out that up to the early 1930s, after which journals on individual lines of topics covered by Elektrichestvo began to be published, the journal also published papers on thermal engineering, radio engineering, emerging TV, and on many other problems.
But even after that the scope of topics covered by the journal remained very broad and remains so still at present and involves theoretical principles of electrical engineering; matters concerned with electric power engineering, including equipment for power stations, studies of power system operating modes, relay protection, high-voltage engineering with questions related to lightning protection; matters concerned with electrical technology, including design and investigations of electrical machines, including those with superconducting windings, as well as micromachines, electrical apparatuses and transformers, development of various kinds of converters for control of electric drives and technological processes, and development of new kinds of materials for use in electrical devices, machines, and apparatuses.
The topics covered by the journal include publication of historical materials devoted to anniversaries of significant events that occurred in electrical engineering, as well as outstanding Russian and foreign scientists, engineers, and businessmen who introduced an important contribution in the worldwide and Russian electrical engineering.