CHOICE OF PROFESSIONAL CAREERS BY STUDENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400420010-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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Choice of Professional Careers by Students
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 181 SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION DA RIVE.
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1. This report will discuss the conditions influencing students' choices of
careers and, in particular, influencing them to specialize in either
purely scientific fields or in practical work.
2. First of all one must keep in mind that the individual has no say as to
his future in the USSR and if he Should get to specialize in a field of
his own choosing, it is simply because his wishes happen to correspond
with the wishes of the government. When a man is sent to study in a field
not of his own choosing, it does not mean necessarily, that he will become
an inefficient expei't. The teaching staff of any. higher educational in-
stitution will always try to instill in the student a liking for a par-
ticular profession and thus some students will develop an interest in the
given profession. Those who do not develop this interest, of course, will
simply put in their time on the joband never try to advance themselves or
their profession. Occasionally, these "unsuccessful ones", manage, by some
means or other, to deviate from their profession and becomeaalesmen in
stores or cafeteria or restaurant managers, etc.
3. Individuals who manage to be asSigned to fields which they like, usually
become experts and scientificW:Orkers; The teaching staff quickly eval-
uates the capabilities of the individual student and tries to concentrate
attention on the training of the student showing .the greatest talent,
whether it.be in scientific research or in practical work. These students
are invited to join scientific circles, to work on special projects and to
assist the instructors in their scientific work. The very best graduate
students and a few of the bestproduction workers are chosen every year to
work toward a graduate degree. The number of such individuals is very
small - usually from four to 10 persons, depending on the institution.
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4. The ordinary students mho graduate in fields of their own choosing, are
assigned to production and other places of work and, although they usually
have no choice as to place of work, SOMB of the better students or good
committee workers are allowed to state their preferences. If a man is ae.
signed to production 'work but shown an aptitude for research work, then he
might get into that type of work by one of the following meanss
(a) Be may apply for candidacy for an advanced degree by submatting
one or several scientific projects which he has worked out himself and
taking an entrance examination in his specialty, a foreign language and
the principles of Marxism and Leninism.
(b) He may engage in research wOrk while ra the job by joining a
scientific engineer-technical society.
5. The Merchant and river fleet offers graduate courses in the following in
stitutionss
Odessa lyletitute for Merchant Fleet Engineers
Oda Tiigher-Maritime Acad6my
Lenin_grad Higher Maritime Academy
Viadi+estok-Higher Maritime Academy
Leningrad Higher-Arctic Sea Aoademy
Leningrad-Lietitute of Water-Transportation Engineers
Gorki Institute of later Transportation Engineers
Novosibirsk Institute of Water Transportation Engineers
Central Scientific ResearCh Inetitite blithe Merchant Fleet,
Central Soientifi�esearch Institute of the River Fleet
Central-Scientifie-Reseireh Institute of Water Transportation
Economics and Exploitation.
GreduiteTcoUrses can be taken either at the above institutions or by,
correspondence..
6. Outeide of higher educational and naientific institutions, preparation of
-iiiientifie-ifOrkers tales piece in the'AIl-Union Scientific Engineer-Tesh..
nioal Society of later Transportation.
7. The government universities also play an important part in the trainiam of
scientific workers in the pure and humaniatio soienoes and in the training
of instructors. There are 31 gotrernment-universities in the USSRishieh are
Located_An:Lhe following places3.Moscow; Leningrad, Kazan, Saratov, Tweak,
Odbaca, Kharkov, Riga, Lmrov', Wrilno, Tartu, Tanta, Vladivostok,
Voronezh, Gorki, Irkutsk, Molotov, R-ottov on thellOn, Baku; Sverdlovsk.
Dnepropetrovsk, Minsk, Tiflis, Erevan, Samarkand, Tashkent; Alma-Ata and
Petrozavodsk.
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