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The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union ).
In 1925 the Soviet government recognized the Russian Academy of Sciences as the "highest all-Union scientific institution" and renamed it the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In 1934, the academy headquarters moved from Leningrad to the capital, Moscow.
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the academy directed more than 260 institutions, including laboratories, naval institutes, observatories, research stations, and scientific societies, and its branches were spread throughout the Soviet Union. Since 1999 the date of the academy’s founding, February 8, has been observed as a ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the Soviet Union the Communist party and the government determined the priorities for science during the I930S and I940s. They used the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences as one of the main agencies for the administration of their science policy. The Presidium formulated programmes for scientific and
Dec 8, 2015 · No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life.
- Loren R. Graham
- December 08, 2015
- 1967
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Science. 20 Jan 1939. Vol 89, Issue 2299. p. 52. DOI: 10.1126/science.89.2299.52.a. Formats available. You can view the full content in the following formats: VIEW PDF. (0)eLetters.
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The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, presided over by A.P. Alexan drov, is a body directly responsible to the Council of Ministers which deals with basic research (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, natural and
