Field Diary (Polevoy Dnevnik): a printed logbook form issued for use on scientific field expeditions / USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980s. Unused. In Russian.

Полевой дневник [исследователя] : типографский бланк дневника для полевых экспедиций / Академия наук СССР.
[Москва] : Производственно-издательский комбинат ВИНИТИ (ПИК ВИНИТИ), [1980-е годы]. 102 листа, в клетку ; 14,6 × 10,1 см. Тираж 30 000 экземпляров, заказ № 17.
Твердый издательский переплет: серый коленкор с золотым тиснением заглавия и эмблемой (звезда) на передней сторонке.
Экземпляр полностью не заполнен: поля титульного листа - "название экспедиции", "название и № отряда", "фамилия, имя, отчество исследователя", "начат/окончен" - оставлены пустыми.
Состояние хорошее: переплет крепкий и чистый, легкое потускнение по кромке задней сторонки; блок полный, чистый, без единой записи.
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Field Diary (Polevoy Dnevnik): a printed logbook form issued for use on scientific field expeditions / USSR Academy of Sciences.
[Moscow] : Production and Publishing Combine of VINITI (PIK VINITI), [1980s]. 102 leaves, ruled in graph squares ; 14.6 × 10.1 cm. Print run of 30,000 copies, order no. 17.
Publisher's hardcover: grey cloth with gilt-lettered title and a gilt star emblem on the front board.
The copy is entirely unused: the title-page fields for expedition name, detachment name and number, researcher's full name, and start/end dates are all left blank.
Condition good: binding firm and clean, slight toning to the edge of the rear board; text block complete and clean throughout, with no entries.

Not a published text but a preprinted logbook: a standardized field-diary form issued by the USSR Academy of Sciences for researchers to carry into the field and fill in by hand with day-by-day observations, coordinates, sketches, or survey data. The title page presents a fill-in template with a year field left open as "198_ g.," blank lines for the expedition's name and detachment number, a diary number, the researcher's name, and start and end dates, closing with a standard request that a finder return a lost diary to the owner's address — a practical precaution built into stationery meant to travel into remote fieldwork conditions where loss was a real risk. The imprint "PIK VINITI" identifies the printer as the Production and Publishing Combine of the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI), reflecting VINITI's broader role supplying standardized documentation and office stationery across Soviet scientific institutions. The finely graph-ruled interior pages were equally suited to written notes, sketches, or tabulated measurements, in the same tradition as the ethnographic, geological, and archaeological field diaries that later scholars have studied as a genre of Soviet scientific travel writing in its own right. Never filled in, this example survives as an unused specimen of Soviet expedition equipment and institutional print culture rather than as the record of any particular expedition; its appeal lies with collectors of Soviet scientific ephemera and stationery, and with buyers drawn to a genuinely blank vintage notebook they can put to their own use.