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In 1989, the Siberian Branch, by then a full-fledged Department of the academy,
counted 35 SRIs directly subordinate to it. In 1992, the Department counted 108
scientific administrative and research units under its jurisdiction. 15
The Regionalization of Scientific Research: From 1957 to 1969, major
interdisciplinary scientific "centers" were established such as the first experimental
center in Novosibirsk called "Akademgorodok" which set a pattern for further
scientific regional development. In August of 1969, following this experimentation,
the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers, by decree,
adopted the principle of establishing scientific institutions in "individual l" economic
regions. The Presidium of the Siberian Department with its expanded powers and
support established a number of new institutes in Irkutsk, Krasnoiarsk, Yakutsk,
Ulan-Ude and Tomsk. In 1970, a new center was founded--the Far Eastern
Department whose control passed back to the national academy's Presidium. The
Siberian Department's institutes in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Kamchatka
and Sakhalin were included in this reorganization and transfer.
Regional Development: In 1977, the ties with the national and regional economies of
the Siberian Department were strengthened further by CC CPSU decrees following
a trip by Brezhnev through the area and strong recommendations by him to the
Central Committee. On the basis of this additional support, the Presidium of the
Siberian Department established new institutes in Krasnoiarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk,
Chita and Kemerovo, and organized 15 new extensions of the Siberian Department
in various Siberian cities, built on previously existing institutes of the Novosibirsk
scientific center but with a renewed emphasis upon solving urgent economic and
industrial problems of the regions in which they were located. The academy "cells,"
as Koptyug called them, may be found in Barnaul, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kyzyl,
Omsk and Tiumen'. A number of field stations also were established throughout
Siberia during this period. 16
15 Koptyug, V. A., "A Matter of Honor for Siberian Scientists," Ekonomika I Organizatsiya
Promishlennogo Proizvodstva, No. 5, May 1982, pp. 41-60.
16 Koptyug, V., "The Science and Productive Forces of the Region," Politicheskoye
Samoobrazovaniye, No. 5, May 1984, pp. 31-39. See also, GSE 7, p. 177.
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