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institutes, those of the republic Academies, and the higher educational 
institutions in the area of theoretical problems in the natural and humanistic 
sciences; (3) maintain scientific ties with scientific institutions abroad; and 
(4) carry out the training of scientific personnel (cadres).(4) Maintaining 
foreign scientific ties is carried out in part through the Scientific-Technical 
Societies affiliated with the Academy as illustrated in Figure 11. 
The charter of the U.S.S.R. Academy defines itasacollective of scientists 
which unites initselfthe representatives ofallthe basic branches of knowledge 
and as an organization which carries out directlya definite share of scientific 
investigations in the Soviet Union. (54) 
Premier Khrushchev in November, 1962, discussed the Academies of 
Sciences saying that henceforth, research institutes must be developed not 
under the Academies of Science but indirect contact with production. He said 
that sc Moa of the work of the republic Academies of Science was still 
poor. 
THE STATE COMMITTEES ON COORDINATION 
OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 
A joint decree of the Party and the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers estab- 
lished the U.S.S.R. State Committee on Coordination of Scientific Research 
in 1961. It was formed to pool the technical and scientific knowledge of 
Soviet science and industry dispersed in different facilities and agencies, 
and to determine onthe basis ofthis pooled knowledge, the volume of scientific 
and technical research most desirable at any given time. (48) 
Structure of the U.S.S.R. State Committee 
on Coordination of Scientific Research 
Membership on this Committee consists of the Chairman (who is also a 
Deputy Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers), Deputy Chairmen, and 
persons who are members by virtue of their other administrative offices and 
specialties. The latter are the Chairmen of the State Committees on Auto- 
mation and Machine Building andon Chemistry, the Chairman of the Committee 
on Inventions and Discoveries, a Deputy Chairmanofthe former State Economic 
Council, and a Deputy Chairman of Gosplan. Both the Minister of Higher and 
Specialized Secondary Education U.S.S.R. and the President of the U.S.S.R. 
Academy of Sciences are members.(!) The Chairmenof the State Committees 
