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There are State Committees for individual branches ofindustry: ferrous 
and nonferrous metallurgy, defense technology, chemicals and fuels, aviation 
technology, electronics, ship building, atomic energy, automationand machine 
technology, timber and wood processing, forestry, transportation, and fish- 
eries. Besides these, thereare State Committees on coordination of scientific 
research, questions of labor and wages, security, professional and technical 
education, and foreign economic relations. 
The finance and credit system is represented by the Finance Ministry 
and the State Banks. The accounting and statistics system is under the 
jurisdiction of the U.S.S.R. Central Statistical Administration. (> 
Until December, 1962, the general planning and economic bodies 
attached to the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers were the U.S.S.R. State Eco- 
nomic Council (Gosekonomsovet) and the U.S.S.R. State Planning Committee 
(Gosplan). Gosekonomsovet handled long-term planning and Gosplan dealt 
with short-term and current planning. Current planning included checking 
on general plan fulfillment by the U.S.S.R. and republic agencies and the 
meshing of detailed production and construction plans with material and 
technical supply. In the republics, their territories, oye and districts, 
lower level planning committees had similar functions. 5 Planning bodies 
at all levels are agencies of their respective executive and administrative 
bodies and act as their "economic general staffs", (6) 
In December, 1962, the Supreme Soviet U.S.S.R. acted on proposals 
made by Premier Khrushchev during a session of the Central Committee 
of the CPSU in November. The Supreme Soviet approved a reorganization 
of the top-level planning agencies, abolishing the Gosekonomsovet, returning 
to Gosplan the tasks of long-range planning, establishing a new agency to be 
called the U.S.S.R. Sovnarkhoz. The newly formed U.S.S.R. Sovnarkhoz would 
be given power to settle questions of current plan fulfillment. The Supreme 
Soviet also created four new State Committees on electrical engineering, 
light industry, food industry, and trade.(4.36) Since no information more 
recent than November, 1962, was used to prepare the descriptions in the 
Directory, some of the institutes will still be reported as subordinate to the 
Gosekonomsovet despite the abolition of this agency in December, 1962. 
The most important State Committee for the supervision of science, 
technology, and education is the U.S.S.R. State Committee for the Coordina- 
tion of Scientific Research formed in April, 1961.(1539) Because its forma- 
tion, and the subsequent formation of its republic counterparts, directly 
affected both the functions and scope of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 
the State Committee for Coordination is discussed below as one of the 
administrative organs of direct control over the scientific community. 
