Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 2194-2201 ~ ~ ~ УДК 130.2(092) Outstanding Scientist of Our Time: to the 80th Anniversary of Academician A.D. Ursul Konstantin K. Kolin* Institute of Informatics Problems Federal Research Centre “Information and Management”, RAS 44 Vavilova Str., Moscow, 119333, Russia Received 18.06.2016, received in revised form 21.07.2016, accepted 19.08.2016 The article gives a brief analysis of some important directions of scientific work of doctor of philosophical Sciences, Professor A. D. Ursula. <...> Shown the encyclopedic nature of scientific activities of this outstanding scientist, who is the founder of some new trends in Russian and world science. <...> The main attention in this work paid to the results of A. D. Ursula in the area of noospherology, the philosophy of information, social Informatics, and information of cultural studies – a new direction in cultural studies, in which cultural phenomena are studied from the perspective of information approach. <...> Shows the relationship of these areas with the current problems of national and global security. <...> Keywords: global studies, information globalistics, information culturology, noospherology, social Informatics, philosophy of information. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: kolinkk@mail.ru – 2194 – Konstantin K. Kolin. <...> Outstanding Scientist of Our Time: to the 80th Anniversary of Academician A.D. Ursul Academician Arkady Dmitrievich Ursul Scientist of worldwide reputation July 28, 2016 marks the 80th anniversary of the member of our Editorial Board, honoured scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor – Arkady Dmitrievich Ursul. <...> A.D. Ursul belongs to the rare type of polymaths, whose research interests are extremely broad. <...> Therefore, in this article I will briefly consider only a few of the main research areas, which seems fundamentally important in terms of their relevance to address the global civilizational problems in the short term. <...> Contribution to the philosophical space exploration A.D. Ursul began his scientific career with studying the problems of space exploration in the practical and philosophical terms. <...> He laid the foundations of social and philosophical concept of human space activities; developed a methodology for space activities; foresaw its evolution from the perspective of sustainable development and global evolutionism; for the first time ever gave <...>