Previously Unpublished Documents and Memories about A.E. Fersman: to the 140th Anniversary of the Birth

For the first time the article publishes letters of A.E. Fersman (November 1938–February 1945) and E.M. Fersman (August 1945–January 1964) from archive of D.P. Grigoriev stored in the Russian Mineralogical Society, and memories of V.N. Florovskaya about meetings with A.E. Fersman (1937–1945) and P.N. Chirvinsky (1937–1954) at the Afrikanda deposit, the Tietta scientific station in Khibiny and later in Moscow, Leningrad, Perm. The publication is timed to the 140th anniversary of the A.E. Fersman date of birth. Attention is drawn to the importance of preserving and researching personal archives when studying the history of science.