FIGURE 8-6 STRUCTURE OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



General Assembly 



Presidium — 



Organizations, Councils and 



Commissions Attached to the 



Presidium 



Council for Coordi- 

 nation of Scientific 

 Activities of the 

 Republic Academies 



Republic 

 Academies 



of 

 Sciences 



Regional Amliates 

 and Scientific Centers 



Institutes Councils Commissions 



The Administrative Apparatus 

 of the Presidium 



X 



Physical-Technical and 



Mathematical Sciences 



Section 



Chemical-Technical 



and 3iological 

 Sciences Section 



§■ 



-r 



Divisions 



Mathematics 



General Physics and 

 Astronomy 



Nuclear Physics 



Physical-Technical Prob- 

 lems of Energetics 



Mechanics and Control 

 Processes 



-arta sciences 



Section 



5 



Social Sciences 

 Section 



Scientific Councils 



for Problems 

 Attached to Sections 



Divisions 



General and Tech- 

 nical Chemistry 



Physical Chemistry 

 and Technology of 

 Inorganic Materials 



Biochemistry, Biophys- 

 ics and Chemistry of 

 Physiologically 

 Active Compounds 



Physiology 



General 3iology 



§■ 



T 



Divisions 



Geology, Geophys- 

 ics and Geochem- 

 istry 



Oceanography, 

 Physics of the 

 Atmosphere and 

 Geography 



Divisions 



Scientific 

 Institutions 



a. 



Scientific Councils 

 of Divisions 



§■ 



History 

 Philosophy and Law 

 Economics 

 Literature and 

 Languages 



Scientific 

 Institutions 



Scientific 



Institutions 



Scientific 

 Institutions 



Source: Gvishiani et al, Osnovnyye printsipy i obshchiye 



problemy upravleniya naukoy , pp. 182-183; Nolting, 

 The Structure and Functions of the USSR State Com- 

 mittee for Science and Technology , p. 28. 



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