The article describes all stages of the development of an Information system for the creation, development and support of scientific research in geology: from the Information and analytical environment to the Unified Digital Space of geological scientific knowledge. The current stage of the Project under development is a step forward from the traditional geographically distributed geological system to the digital environment of the future.

This work is related to the development of a high-tech popular science Internet portal "History of the Earth". The developed resource sets as its main goal the popularization of modern scientific geological knowledge using popular science multimedia content and software tools for interactive work with it. The Internet resource is intended for schoolchildren and students, as well as a wide range of Internet users.