APPROVAL OF THE 1949 SCIENTIFIC WORK PLAN OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USSR

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• Publication Date: January 23, 1950
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APPROVAL OF TE 1949 SC1E16TIFIC WORK PLAN
OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USSR
According to the report of Academician A. V. Topchiyev, first scien-
tific secretary of the Presidium, the General Assembly approved the 1949
plan for the scientific work of the Academy of Sciences. Academician
Topchiyev announced that the plan was praI?ared after consideration of the
most important problems confronting our government, and the international
situation at the beginning of the current year.
An important featu:ce if the 1949 plan is its design for solving
leadii-g national economic problems and concentrating the scientific effort
of several departments on the problems 6f.great-eaientitic.aud.ecnnomic
value. These problems include the theory of building materials, which
the efforts of institutes in the Departments of Physicomathematical,
Chanical, and Geologogeugraphical ScienceG will 'o, concentrated; and the
problems of natural and synthetic albumin, vitwzsins and antibiotics upon
which the institutes of Departments of Biological, Physicomathe'iatical,
and f.'hemical Sciences will work.
Problems under the heading, "Petroleum and Its Derivatives," are
being worked on by units of the' Departments of Technical,.Goologoge*#
graphical, and Chemical Sciences in close collaboration with the Academies
of Sciences of Azerbaydzhan and Georgia; and affiliates and bases of the'
Academy of Sciences USSR.
Collaboration with Academies of Sciences of union-republics is pro-
vided for in many fields. For example, problems of irrigation in the
basins of the Amu Darlya, Syr Darya,'Y1ra,.,and Araks-will be studied jointly by
the Academies of Sciences of Uzbek, Kazakh, Armeniya, Georgia, and
Azerbaydzhnn.
For the first time there is planned collaboration of units of the
social sciences departments with institutes working on problems of natural
science. An example of such collaboration, specified by the 1949 plan,
is the preparation of a monograph, "History of Domestic Cultivation,"
which will be carried out under the direction of Academicians B. D. Greko:
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arl T. D. L,.,~u o i,S u e De artmenc 01' History p' ~ and rhi_osophy and the
Department of Biological Sciences,
A significant part of the problems specified in the plan must be
c.;mpleted or near completion in 1949. Such problems include a grou
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connected with polymers and plastics, the technology of organic synthesis,
scientific bases of animal husbandry, development of the fish and food
industries, development of the principles of automatization and me-
chanization of industrial transportation processes, mining, and other
branches of the national economy.
Academician Topchiyev reported that in January of the current year
S. I. Vavilov, president of the Academy of Sciences, presented an out
line of the academy's 1949 plan at the conference of the Council of
Mr :iatcrs of the USSR. Accordir to the
$ president's report, the Council
of Ministers issued the decree which approved in principle the scientific
research plan of the Academy of Sciences for 1949. Furthermore, the
Council of Ministers USSR commissioned the Presidium of the Academy to
confirm the 1949 plan of scientific research, taking into account the
inte,-change of opinions which took place at the conference of the Bureau
of the Council of Ministers t;SSR on 27 January 1949, and also the
comments and recommendations introduced by Gosplan and Gostekhnika.
These critical recommendations reveal the faults which the tcademy of
Sciences still has in respect to planning its activities. The recomxan--
dations of Gosplan and G.,ostekbnika, as well as the comments expressed at
the conference of the Bureau of the Council of Ministers USSR, were
communicated by the Presidium to the appropriate institutes and affiliated
departments.
On 7 April 1949, at a conference of the Presidium, the plan was ap-
proved in final fcrm. resolution of this conference was transmitted
to the institutes and departments of the Academy of Sciences USSR.
This plan in final form covers 296 extensive scientific yroblems and
calls for the organization of 125 expeditions.
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