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The article is devoted to understanding the cultural and historical aspects of the original concept of constructive ("activity") realism, which is being deve­loped by Academician Vladislav Alexandrovich Lektorsky (we celebrate his 90th birthday this year). The author suggests that the concept of the hero of the day (as well as the basis of the cultural and historical epistemology on which the author of the article relies) is based on the interpretation of a holistic person who actively transforms reality in cultural and historical communication with other people. Realizing this cultural and historical foundation of knowledge, and its gen­eral humanistic problems, V.A. Lektorsky focuses on the cognitive and technical aspects of modern epistemological issues, and cultural-historical epistemology em­phasizes the specifics of communication within advanced interdisciplinary re­search programs (megascience). In multidisciplinary scientific communications, a special layer of interaction-collaboration has been defined, which implies under­standing of each other by scientists at the sign-symbolic level. Phenomenological issues in this context becomes the center of the scientist's methodological guide­lines, since it allows interpreting the "historical" and "cultural" not so much as changeable and relative, but as dynamically balanced, allowing one to think of sci­entific modernity as historically successive. At the same time, both concepts are based on the traditions of the domestic intellectual culture of the twentieth century, which includes the ideas of G.G. Shpet and M.M. Bakhtin, S.L. Rubinstein and V.P. Zinchenko, E.V. Ilyenkov and G.P. Shchedrovitsky.

We try to think the relationship between memory, historical cultures, and history teaching in the contemporary world. First, we discuss the analysis of the contemporary world developed by Jörn Rüsen, Christian Laville, François Hartog, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Therefore, we describe the historical horizon within which the history teaching - as a part of historical culture - is challenged to answer several historical demands, such as the tension democratization/ethnocentrism and the relationship sense/presence in production and orientation of historical statements.

Introduction : Integrating the animal / Jane Costlow and Amy Nelson -- Woman's honor, or the story with a pig : the animal in everyday life in the eighteenth-century Russian provinces / Olga E. Glagoleva -- Treating the "other animals" : Russian ethnoveterinary practices in the context of folk medicine / Mikhail Alekseevsky -- That savage gaze : the contested portrayal of wolves in nineteenth-century Russia / Ian M. Helfant -- "For the bear to come to your threshold" : human-bear encounters in late imperial Russian writing / Jane Costlow -- The body of the beast : animal protection and anticruelty legislation in imperial Russia / Amy Nelson -- Making reindeer Soviet : the appropriation of an animal on the Kola Peninsula / Andy Bruno -- The animal Mayakovsky / Katherine Lahti -- A legacy of kindness : V.L. Durov's revolutionary approach to animal training / Ann Kleimola -- Of men and horses : animal imagery and the construction of Russian masculinities / Arja Rosenholm -- Life of ferret and the "manimal" in post-Soviet literature / José Alaniz -- The animal watches you : identity "after" history in Tatyana Tolstaya's The slynx / Daria Kabanova -- The human dog Oleg Kulik : grotesque post-Soviet animalistic performances / Gesine Drews-Sylla