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l. Research on major economic problems on which work had 
reached the experimental or design stage 
2. Long-term applied research on concrete economic problems 
3. Basic research in the natural sciences devoted to discovering 
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new paths of progress. 
The problems inthe first categoryare to be coordinated by the Coordina- 
tion Committee working with State administrative units and the Academies. 
Work on the problems in the second category includes research, the develop- 
ment of experimental plants, and preliminary planning. Facilities engaged in 
such activities are scattered all over the Soviet Union, but their efforts will 
be correlated by the Coordination Committee. Parallel research involving 
different approaches will be tolerated in order to obtain solutions at the 
earliest possible date.(64) The direct transformation of thermal energy into 
electricity is an example of tolerated duplication. The drafting of proposals 
for work on the problems of the third category has been assigned to the 
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and the scientific councils attached to the 
Academy.(!) Initially, at least, the Academy is limited to framing proposals 
which must be approved before they are implemented. 
Specifically, the Coordination Committee is charged with the following 
tasks: 
1. National control of the fulfillment by all ministries, depart- 
ments, and organizations of the most important research 
objectives (outlined above) and supervision, on anoperational 
basis, of the prompt introduction of scientific and technical 
achievements into the national economy. 
2. Preparation of proposals for research and development work 
of greatest national significance, and concern with problems 
posed by new discoveries and inventions. 
3. Preparation of proposals concerning the supplying of the 
country's research establishments with special equipment, 
apparatus, and instruments. 
4, Study and evaluation of the achievements of international 
science and technology with a view toward their utilization 
in the national economy; direction of the task of providing 
the country with scientific and technical information [through 
a joint administration of the All-Union Institute of Scientific 
and Technical Information(®7)]; and the coordination of the 
international ties of ministries, departments, and research 
organizations in the areas of science and technology. 
