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Figure 34
Establishment of Scientific Research
Centers in the Siberian Department
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Source: Koptiug, V., "The Science and Productive Forces of the Region,"
Politicheskoye samoobrazovaniye, No. 5, May 1984, pp. 31-39.
Scientific Research and the Development of Technology: It was in the Siberian
Department that experimentation with tying the SRIs directly to the industrial and
agricultural enterprises of the area was tested shortly after the decree of 1977. As
early as 1979, scientists in the Siberian Department had submitted 20 Technicaleconomic
reports to the USSR GOSPLAN on important national economic and
technical developments.
The Acceleration of Scientific and Technical Progress: By 1984, the Siberian
Department had signed bilateral agreements with 22 union and republic ministries
and Departments. Under these agreements "associations of industry and science"
were established, arrangements which were encouraged by the decree of the CC
CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers "On Measures on the Acceleration of
Scientific and Technical Progress in the National Economy." Out of these new
arrangements the 'goal program' emerged with the blessing of the GKNT and
GOSPLAN and under the direction of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and
the Presidium of the Siberian Department. In 1984, the Siberian Department was
working on 24 comprehensive goal programs and 47 specific programs under those-
-all aiming at the solution of scientific and Technical Problems in areas of power
engineering, petroleum, gas, coal and other mineral prospecting, production and
processing, chemistry and powder metallurgy, automation and computer
technology--a high priority throughout the scientific community--construction,
agriculture, health care, and environmental protection. Throughout Siberia where
scientific centers of the Siberian Department were located, new and experimental
structures of cooperation were developed.
Emphasis on the Hard Sciences: The emphasis upon the hard sciences and the
assignment of top-level scientific personnel to the Siberian Department is shown in
Figure 35 below.
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