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Subunits of the Subject-Matter Departments of the USSR
Academy of Sciences in 1980
Institutes
No. of Labs
No. of Units in Labs
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Key to Departments in Chart:
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1. Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds Department;
2. Economics Department; 3. General Biology Department; 4. General Physics and Astronomy
Department; 5. General and Technical ChemistryDepartment; 6. Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department; 7. History Department; 8. Information
Sciences, Computer Technology, and Automation Department. (Est. in 1984); 9. Literature and
Language Department; 10. Mathematics Department; 11. Nuclear Physics Department;
12. Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography Department; 13. Philosophy and Law
Department; 14. Physical Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials Department;
15. Physical Technical Problems of Power Engineering; 16. Physiology Department; and,
17. Problems of Machine Building and Control Processes Department.
Scientific Research Funding: Funding for scientific development in the USSR grew
rapidly from 1960 to 1983 with the source of funding shifting from government
appropriations to an almost even mix between government and private contract
sources of funding, as figure 4 illustrates. The greatest difficulty facing the Russian
Academy in the next few decades will be the funding its basic research programs. 8
8 Skriabin, G., "The March of Technical Programs: The Joint Preparatory Commission for
Science and Technology Meets," Izvestiya, 4 June 1986, 2. Varshavskii, A. E., "Problems of
the Analysis and Prediction of the Development of Basic Science," Izvestiya Akademii
Nauk SSSR: Seriya Ekonomicheskaya, No. 6, November-December 1984,12-26. The author
estimates that 10 percent of all national expenditures on research in the USSR are on
"Basic Research."
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