History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back A.L. Chizhevskii: Society and Space Shirina D.A. Maksimova T.P. The article shows the evolution of ideas about the nature of the world, from the worldview of the ancient people to completing scientific developments of A.L. Chizhevskiy, one of the founders of Russian space biology. Main attention is paid to A.L. Chizhevskiy researchs («Earth in the arms of the Sun», «Earth’s echo of solar storms», «Cosmic Pulse of Life,» «Heliotaraksiya», «In the rhythm of the Sun»). These works were developed by scientist, identifying, analyzing and summarizing the evidence vast and diverse set of documents and literature data of his own observations, materials of epidemic diseases, mortality and mass movements in different countries over a long period of time. Based on the study of this vast amount of documentary evidence and its comparison with the dates of solar activity cycles scientist formulated the position of the unity of the Society and Space, the leading role of the space environment, that epidemic diseases, mortality, mass movements are periodic in nature and are caused by the energy dependence Earth from Space. Keywords: cosmization of science; A.L. Chizhevskiy; the organic world of the Earth and the Sun; solar activity and human society. Contacts: E-mail: taniamaksimova@mail.ru Pp. 43-49.