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Assembly, to make policy decisions and to carry out Academy affairs. The 
Presidium is the center of administrative power. The Chief Scientific 
Secretary is the offical representative of the centralapparatus of the Party. (>2) 
Directly attached to the Presidium are eight functional departments to 
administer Academy facilities, a ninth functional department in the formation 
state, and one territorial department, the Siberian Department.(58) The latter 
has its own Presidium. For other bodies directly attached to the Presidium, 
see Figure ll. 
The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences serves as the R.S.F.S.R. Academy. 
Part of the U.S.S.R. Academy is located in a branch in Leningrad. The 
Academy affiliates located inthe R.S.F.S.R. were turned over to the R.S.F.S.R. 
State Committee for the Coordination of Scientific Research. (5?) However, 
the U.S.S.R. Academy retains a measure of supervisory control over its for- 
mer affiliates. 
As indicated in Figure 11, Academy institutes andlaboratories described 
in the Directory are subordinated, with some exceptions, to the Departments 
of the Academy. Annual reports made bythe Department Secretaries present 
a general survey of academic accomplishments for the previous year as well 
as general plans for the following year. These reports and the yearly report 
of the Chief Scientific Secretary are published inthe Academy's news journal, 
the Vestnik Akademii Nauk sssp.(27,60) The Department bureaus act as 
presidiums for the Departments, (°3) 
The 1961 reorganization resulted in a reduction in the number of insti- 
tutes attached to the Academy's Department of Technical Sciences. The insti- 
tutes that were intimately concerned withthe problem of introducing technology 
into production were placed under the several State Committees whose mission 
it is to capitalize on the work of technological institutes. The affiliations of 
the divorced institutes have not been reported in all cases. In the case of the 
Institute of Automation and Remote Control, the Academy has retained methodo- 
logical supervision. The Academy President said, ''The opinion is becoming 
more and more widespread that the Department of Technical Sciences must be 
founded ona small number of basic institutes dealing with problems of broad 
significance ... The institutes ...must be the leading scientific centers in 
these fields."(°8) He added that such institutes yet to be formed are to create 
close ties with the leading design groups and the major branches of industry, 
the officials of which were to be members of the Department of Technical 
Sciences. He said, "I think we must set our course firmly toward this re- 
organization even though it cannot be carried out all at once.. (58) 
The scientific workers ofthe Academy are attached to the administrative 
divisions of the Academy and the Academy facilities. The workers include the 
voting members who are in charge of or who are attached to some facility, 
senior and junior research associates, and technical assistants, (4,58) 
