The Establishment of Multidimensional and Multilevel Typing on the Example of History Research Meteorological Support of the Red army air Force During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)

Relevance. Scientific typification of past events is one of the most common results, obtained in the course of historical research. At the same time, as a rule, we are talking about using only one typological feature and only one level of typing. This gives relevance to the consideration of the issue of establishing multidimensional and multilevel typing.
Purpose of the article is to familiarize the professional community of historians with the experience of establishing a multidimensional and multilevel typification of the subject of research.
The objective of the article is to establish the typification of the meteorological support of the Red Army Air Force and demonstrate by its example the practical application of the historical and typological method.
Methodology. The use of the historical-typological method has become widespread in conducting historical research. In particular, it was used in the study of the history of meteorological support of the Red Army Air Force during the Great Patriotic War.
Results. It was proposed to streamline the subject of the study by identifying types in it based on the establishment of common inherent features. For this purpose, three typological features were used: the level of military management, the regularity of meteorological support and the specifics of the activities of the Air Force. As a result, multidimensional typing was obtained. The third type was subjected to further detail, which allowed us to talk about its second level. All conclusions and provisions are illustrated by concrete examples from the experience of aviation meteorologists in providing the Air Force during the Great Patriotic War.
Conclusion. The possibility of using the historical-typological method to establish multidimensional and multilevel typing is shown by the example of a specific subject of research. It is established that the use of this method should be preceded by the use of a descriptive method. It is revealed that the key component determining the further possibility of typification is the selection of typological features.

1. Koval'chenko I. D. Metody istoricheskogo issledovaniya [Methods of historical research]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1987. 440 p.

2. Informacionnyj sbornik no. 2: (Meteorologicheskaya sluzhba VVS v gody Vtoroj mirovoj i Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojn) [Information collection No. 2: (Meteorological Service of the Air Force during the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War)]. Moscow, Voenizdat Publ., 1947.

3. Fedorov E. K. Gidrometsluzhba SSSR v Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojne [Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War]. Meteorologiya i gidrologiya = Meteorology and Hydrology, 1975, no. 5.

4. Epinat'ev M. N. [Meteorological support of long-range aviation in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945]. Voennaya meteorologiya i ee rol' v gidrome-teorologicheskom obespechenii voennyh dejstvij v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny 1941–1945 gg. Sbornik statej [Military meteorology and its role in hydrometeorological support of military operations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Collection of articles]. St. Petersburg, 1995. (In Russ.)

5. CAMO RF (Central'nyj arhiv Ministerstva oborony Rossijskoj Federacii) [Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation], f. 35, op. 11264, d. 110.

6. Nastavlenie po meteorologicheskoj sluzhbe Voennyh vozdushnyh sil Krasnoj armii (NAMS-44) [Manual on the meteorological service of the Military Air Forces of the Red Army (ON MS-44)]. Moscow, Voen. Izd-vo NKO Publ., 1944. 54 p.

7. Kogan-Beleckij G. I. [Aviation meteorologists in the Great Patriotic War]. Voennaya meteorologiya i ee rol' v meteorologicheskom obespechenii voennyh dejstvij v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny 1941–1945 gg. Sbornik statej [Military meteorology and its role in meteorological support of military operations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Collection of articles]. St. Petersburg, 1995. (In Russ.)

8. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11264, d. 116.

9. Gerasimov A. A. [Meteorological support of front-line fighter aircraft]. Voennaya meteorologiya i ee rol' v gidrometeorologicheskom obespechenii voennyh dejstvij v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny 1941–1945 gg. Sbornik statej [Military meteorology and its role in hydrometeorological support of military operations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Collection of articles]. St. Petersburg, 1995. (In Russ.)

10. Novozhilov N. I. [Memoirs of an aviation meteorologist about the Great Patriotic War]. Voennaya meteorologiya i ee rol' v meteorologicheskom obespechenii voennyh dejstvij v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny 1941–1945 gg. Sbornik statej [Military meteorology and its role in meteorological support of military operations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. Collection of articles]. St. Petersburg, 1995. (In Russ.)

11. Nikolaev I. S. [Meteorological Service of the Air Force during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945]. Voennaya meteorologiya i ee rol' v gidrometeorologi-cheskom obespechenii voennyh dejstvij v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny 1941–1945 gg. Sbornik statej [Military meteorology and its role in hydrometeorological support of military operations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. Collection of articles]. St. Petersburg, 1995. (In Russ.)

12. Klepikov V. A., Udrish V. V., Popov D. A. 90 let Gidrometeorologicheskoj sluzhbe VS RF [90 years of the Hydrometeorological Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation]. Moscow, GMS VS RF Publ., 2005. 68 p.

13. Speranskij V. M. Meteorologicheskoe obespechenie boevyh dejstvij aviacii [Meteorological support of aviation combat operations]. Voenno-istoricheskij zhurnal = Military History Magazine, 1982, no. 5, pp. 20–26.

14. Kulakov A. A., Shtal' V. A. Voennaya meteorologiya [Military meteorology]. Moscow, Voenizdat Publ., 1940. 288 p.

15. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11269, d. 16.

16. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11264, d. 88.

17. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11264, d. 21.

18. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11264, d. 61.

19. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11264, d. 90.

20. CAMO RF, f. 35, op. 11264, d. 26.