Aleksey Litvin
Human losses in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War
The article gives a detailed study of the human losses in the USSR and BSSR during the Great Patriotic War. Methodological principles of these losses calculating have been reviewed. Different research data on these problems have been given and the conclusion about the most reliable calculation principle has been made.

Zhanna Komarova, Irina Emelianovich, Vladimir Lebedev, Leonid Emelianov
Imprinted time
The memories of the wartime children who have suffered the gravity and hardships of the war have been collected in this matter.

Yaroslav Bezlepkin
The US and Great Britain historiography on the BSSR history of the WWII period
The problems of dealing with Great Patriotic War in the English study works have been reviewed. Different conceptual views and estimates of the Belarusian and Russian academic historians, on the one side, and their foreign colleagues, on the other side, on the Great Patriotic War events have been also considered.

Nikolay Tokarev
The resource base of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR damage caused by the Nazi occupants
The article analyses the damage caused by the Nazi occupants to the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR during the Great Patriotic War. The problems of the material and technical basis of the Academy of Sciences post-war restoration have been also touched upon.

Volga Avechkina
Innovation component as a factor of the Belarusian economy competitive ability
There have been considered the Belarusian economy competitiveness problems in the situation of the world market innovations active development.

Dzmitry Rahel
Product management as an important tool in the company’s activity
The article considers a relatively new management instrument – a product management. It describes its role, functions and features. It also analyses the product management stages of implementation at the enterprise.

Denis Moroz
Academic writing: the genre rules
For to write a good article a researcher should have practical habits of the academic writing. On its features speaks Candidate of Philological Sciences, a culture expert, leader of the “Mass culture and media”, unofficial educative project “European college “Liberal Arts in Belarus” Olga Romanova.

Mikhail Kremkov, Abdulla Umarov
Research institution effective work and rating estimation
The quantitative method of the research institution effective work and rating estimation have been elaborated on the basis of 11 related indicators.

Vladimir Kolotukhin
How to fill the «fourth basket»?
There is given an analysis of the patent and licensing activity of the Belarusian enterprises and organizations. There have been suggested the measures to change the situation and arrange the protection and commercialization of innovations.

Mikhail Latushko, Mikhail Radko
Benchmarking as a business management method
The paper considers the matter of benchmarking as a modern business management method in the competitive conditions. The opportunities and barriers to the benchmarking use by the Belarusian enterprises have also been presented.

Zhanna Komarova
Agrarian science in the context of time
In their interview the academician-secretary Vladimir Azarenko and the assistant academician-secretary of the Section of the Agrarian Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Svetlana Kas’yanchik speak on the background of the Section and the short-time goals.

Elena Bondarenko, Alla Dikaya
A garden for the progenies
The authors speak on the research work of the Belarusian botanist academician Nikolay Smol’skiy.

Aleksander Kovalevich, Vladimir Padutov, Oleg Baranov
The full-genome sequencing as a new stage of genetic research
The authors give the results of the work on the somatic mutations found and analyzed in birch and aspen which enabled to get the experimental-industrial batches of the planting stock.

Zoya Kozlovskaya
The ornamental apple trees
The article presents the Institute of fruit-growing’s collection of the ornamental forms of the apple tree, which could be used in the development of landscape and farmland gardening.

Yulia Bachura
Cyanobacteriae on the anthropogenically transformed soils
There has been undertaken the analysis of taxonomical and ecological structure of cyanobacterial communities in Gomel region. It was shown that the most resistant representatives tolerant to any contaminants in the studied ecosystems are filamentous cyanobacteria of genera Phormidium and Leptolyngbya.

Romualda Pleskatsevich, Tatyana Madziyevskaya, Anatoly Krivorot, Vladimir Markovnik, Sergey Dalidovich
Universal preparations for foliar nutrition of berry plants
The article deals with innovative fertilizers of complex action for agricultural fruit and berry cultures foliar extranutrition development. The research results of the developed fertilizers of the Volat series effecting the black current have been given.