Personal library of paleontologist D. M. Rauser-Chernousova

The article aims to characterize the composition of the personal library of a twentieth-century Russian scientist, Doctor of Geological Sciences D. M. Rauser-Chernousova, whose scientific research contributed to the industrial development of several regions of the USSR, including the European Northeast. The techniques of intellectual history, library science and bibliometry were used. The mentoring principles of the scientific supervisor Professor A. A. Chernov and the personal pedagogical experience gained in the Pechora North during the Civil War had a great influence on the formation of the personality of the scientist. The scientist collected a large library, part of it was transferred to the Institute of Geology of the Komi Scientific Center in the late 1980s, highlighting groups of the main world literature on foraminifera and stratigraphy, general works on micropaleontology and stratigraphy. Based on the principles of the typology of publications, the library had monographs, periodicals, reference books, collections, articles, prints, abstracts. The most important distinctive features of the library were multilingualism, the presence of little-known, rare publications. It is concluded that the library performed informational functions for scientific creativity, reflected the communicative nature of the scientist and professional interests in the study of the Arctic, the European North and the Pechora Region. The library can be assessed as a significant scientific and cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century.