Arkady Ivanovich Melua (7 February 1950, Kazatin) is the general director and editor-in-chief of the scientific publishing house, Humanistica.

Melua was a member of the Soviet Union project of long-term lunar base (research leader - the chief designer of the Design Bureau of General Mechanical Engineering, Academician Vladimir Barmin, curator in Saint Petersburg - Professor N. Krylov).

As a scientist, he was a secretary of the "lunar laboratory" in Leningrad and was involved in the organization of work testing a number of research institutes of the country.

Held short-term training of Cartography at the Moscow State University of space technology in the VIKU, biomedical issues at the Department of Aerospace Medicine in Sergei Kirov Military Medical Academy and other institutions.

In the mid-1970s Melua began to become acquainted with the scientific and technical documents of the Nobel Family (related to the patenting of methods of protection of designed lunar installations).

For each of these areas he prepared and published research papers, organized by the release of the series of scientific publications by other authors.

He has published over 1200 scientific works (inventions, monographs, articles and collections, educational publications, encyclopedias) on peaceful use of space achievements, ecology, history, science and technology, special engineering, as well as on some aspects of financial market development in Russia in 1990s.

Cooperating with representing Sweden in the USSR and in Russia diplomats Dag Sebastian Ahlander, Tomas Bertelman, scientists Michael Sohlman, Svante Lindqvist and others, contributed to the joint historical research.

The activities of the Nobel family is considering in the context of the history of the European society of the second half of the 19th century - the years of the emergence and development of the Vienna system of international relations.

Held expedition to search for and study of artifacts activities and experience of memoralization heritage of the Nobels in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic and other countries.

In February 2010, he held the successful negotiations with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm.