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Figure 4
Soviet Scientific Expenditures, 1960-1983
State Budget
Other Sources
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Distribution of Scientists as a Measure of Research Investment:
While the number of scientific research institutes showed a slight increase, research
priorities in Russia did not begin to change noticeably until 1990. Within the
institutes subordinate to a single subject matter Department, similar priorities of
investment in Personnel, facilities, and investment existed. When plotted against the
number of scientists assigned to the Lebedev Institute, for example, the numbers of
scientists assigned to the other 20 institutes under the General Physics and
Astronomy Department fall dramatically. Such a personnel distribution pattern
illustrates research priorities within one important academy Department. These
numbers deal only with personnel assigned to the Department, not to the funding for
research or operating expenses. If such numbers were to be added to the personnel
assignment figures, the discrepancies between the individual scientific research
institutes would be even greater. 9
9 The data used in the Rand study was abstracted from Narodnoye khozyaystvo SSSR v 1975
g. (National Economy of the USSR, 1975), Statistika Publishing House, 1976,167.
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