Natalia Aleksandrovna Kupershtokh,

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

To the 65th Anniversary of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 

 DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-3-19

 Throughout its almost 300-year history, the Academy of Sciences has consistently maintained a strategy for the study of Siberia. At the beginning of the 20th century, the importance of studying the productive forces of the regions of Russia was formulated by Academician V.I. Vernadsky, whose precepts were followed by the Commission for the Study of Natural Productive Forces (CEPS). The mobilization strategies of the Soviet state caused the restructuring of the entire activity of the Academy of Sciences. The Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS), which organized dozens of expeditions, was responsible for the development of regional strategies. However, its potential was clearly insufficient to intensively study the resource potential of the regions. It was necessary to find new organizational forms, and the scientific community considered the bases and branches of the Academy as such. However, projects to create them in Siberia in the 1930s were never implemented due to lack of funds and qualified personnel. The process was accelerated by the Great Patriotic War. In 1943, it was decided to organize the first West Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Siberia. By 1957, three branches of the Academy of Sciences were already operating in Siberia: West Siberian, East Siberian and Yakut. Their main focus was the study of the productive forces of the regions.

Publishing: 28/06/2022

The article has been received by the editor on 21/03/2022

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How to cite: Kupershtokh N.A. To the 65th Anniversary of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 3 (23), pp. 268–272. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-3-19.pdf]

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