Socio-cultural factors of human surviving under the conditions of the Leningrad blockade

Aim The aim of the article is to show the significance of the axiological approach in explaining the place of socio-cultural factors, such as social status, ethical values and art, in survival of human population under the conditions of the Leningrad blockade, which reveal in a new methodological viewpoint the significance of the fundamental discoveries, made by Soviet scientists, still underestimated, in biology and medicine (high viability of a part of the population under extremely severe conditions, possibility of activating the hidden reserves of the organism on the verge of life and death, dysregulation pathology, high life potential of the human body, dependence of severity and outcomes of alimentary dystrophy on the psychoemotional status), which have an enduring value and are very topical in our days of significant growth rate of occurrence of extreme situations like environmental and anthropogenic disasters, local armed conflicts and criminal events. Materials and methods In this article the following theoretical tools are applied: a widely used in science neurobiological approach; a new approach to the nature of art as a means of human survival; a cosmological model of the «world of many worlds»; a concept of space ethics and the corrected «hierarchy of needs” by A...