Andrei Ivanets
Public associations on the professional basis in the scientific sphere
The author considers the process of self-organization and formation of the social movement in Belarus, its social base, the participation of civic activists in scientific activities and charity. The specialized public associations are represented, in which the scientists from NAS of Belarus participate.

Anatoli Chumak
Formation and development of the Belarusian Society of Physiologists
The author describes the new and recent stages in the Belarusian Society of Physiologists activities.

Victor Parfyonov
Belarusian Botanical Society
The author speaks on the Belarusian Botanical Society, its formation, efforts to popularize botanical science and plant cultivation, activities in the field of environmental protection, and introduction the achievements of botanical science into the national economy.

Mikalai Tsybulka
Belarusian Society of Soil Scientists and Agrochemists
The author considers the activities of the Society of Soil Scientists and Agrochemists, uniting the workers of academic and industrial research institutions, higher educational institutions and industrial organizations.

Alexander Kilcheuski, Lubov Khotyleva, Ruslan Sheiko, Elena Sycheva
Belarusian Society of Geneticists and Breeders
The article considers the significant events and key figures of the Belarusian Society of Genetics and Breeders.

Alexander Kovalevich
Belarusian Society of Foresters
The material given is on the union of forestry professionals and forest lovers, their activities to preserve and increase the forest wealth of Belarus.

Denis Novitsky, Yuri Kurochkin, Dmitri Mogilevtsev
Belarusian Physical Society
The authors represent the Belarusian Physical Society, its main task being to disseminate scientific knowledge and protect the interests of scientists and specialists working in this field of science.

Vladimir Agabekov, Natalia Litvinko
Belarusian Chemical Society
The article considers the issue of the public association of chemists formation, which activity is focused on the research in the field of fundamental chemical science and industrial chemistry.

Igor Volotovski, Sergey Cherenkevich, Ekaterina Slobozhanina
Belarusian Society of Photobiologists and Biophysicists
The article considers the activities of the public association that has united the scientists, teachers and university students studying life processes at the cellular and organism levels, specialists involved in the biophysical aspects of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, as well as problems of cell engineering, nanobiology, nanobiotechnology, etc.

Emiliya Kalamiyets
Belarusian Public Association of Microbiologists
The article is about the association of microbiologists, uniting the scientists, industrial and agricultural specialists, university professors and graduate students interested in the development of microbiology and biotechnology in our country.

Andrei Maisiayonak, Irina Sutko
Belarusian Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
The article gives a brief information about the public association «Belarusian Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists», its tasks and areas of activity, membership and management as well as the main events.

Anatoly Lazarevich, Alexander Kuish
Belarusian Philosophical Society in the intellectual life of Belarus
The article considers the issues of the formation, development and functioning of the public organization «Belarusian Philosophical Society», its tasks and goals, plans and prospects for further development.

Viachaslau Danilovich, Andrei Salauyanau
Public associations in historical science
The authors speaks on the formation of the Belarusian-German commission of historians, the Association of Belarusian-Russian historians «Union initiative of memory and agreement» and the Association of institutes of history of the CIS countries.

Maria Ablameyko, Sergey Ablameyko
Legal regulation of the artificial intelligence and human systems interaction
The article discusses the development and implementation of legislation in the field of artificial intelligence.

Volga Avechkina
Virtual supply chains as a business function system
The concept of virtual supply chains is a promptly developing process, so, as a result, the active participation in cooperative networks is an important factor of the competitiveness of economic entities.

Iryna Yemelyanovich
White Paper of smart containers
Based on the materials of the UN White Paper on Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, the best practices of using smart containers to simplify trade and electronic business are reviewed.

Volha Balabanovich
The enterprise controlling and management system: theory and methodology
The article examines the combination of organizational and economic conditions for the controlling in enterprises in the Republic of Belarus.

Yauheni Vaitsekhovich
Methodology for assessing overall and structural efficiency of the modernization in industrial organizations
The author shows the synchronous modernization as the most optimal way to build up and maintain positions in the global division of labor for national industrial enterprises. For the first time, private indices for assessing the effectiveness of modernization as a basis for obtaining an integral index are proposed.

Sergey Vityaz, Yuri Nesterovich
Forming the modern theoretical knowledge in monument science
The article considers the importance to develop the conceptual apparatus of monument science. The author justifies the need for the typological category of material historical and cultural values «reserved places» to be expanded in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on the culture by introducing a new type of «reserved places of interest».

Aliaksandr Hrusha
Formation and first experience
The article provides unknown and little-known information about the first year of the Library of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, the predecessor of the Yakub Kolas Central Science Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The main issues are covered, such as the goals, structure and staff, current tasks, methods of collection, difficulties.

Alena Paulava
Wedding towel as a symbol of the bright way and unity of the newly married
The article deals with the semantics and the basic functions of the image-object «towel» in the folk songs of the Belarusian wedding ceremonies in different regions of Belarus.

Ina Narkevich
Gold and soul of the people as the universal natural material
The article considers the use of straw in the traditional Belarusian culture and in the works of contemporary masters of ancient crafts.

Sergei Makarevich, Dmitrij Tesakov, Andrej Мazurenka, Kirill Krivorot, Darya Tesakova, Rustam Ayzatulin, Olga Radyukevich, Andrej Motuz, Natalya Zhizhko-Mihasevich
Surgery experience for children with heavy congenital spine deformities
The authors present the surgical method for the treatment of pediatric patients with congenital spine deformities developed at the Republic Scientific-Practical Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics. Described in detail and illustrated is a two-stage video thoracoscopy surgery for the anterior fusion formed in a 14-year-old boy.