«...Lift up the depths against the enemy!»: scientific and technical book during the war

The article is devoted to the books of the war years, the history of science and technical books, published during the Great Patriotic war. It is shown that the specificity of wartime influenced the themes of the books and their design. Science and technical books published in the years of the great Patriotic war, presented as artifacts of the era. It is shown that the whole book belongs to a certain historical period, reflects her intellectual, social and physical potency. Due to the time of the phenomenon materialize in specific books, which, at times, she takes on the character of the source. The book of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 attributed to the literary monuments of the Federal (national) level. Analyzed books related to such fields of science as Geology, physics, mechanics. Presents statistics on going during the war publications. Special attention is paid to the specifics of the production of the book.