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The duties of the Coordination Committee summarized above are matched 
by its powers. It can (1) supervise the work being done by individual facili- 
ties; (2) coordinate the activities of the U.S.S.R.and Union-Republic Academies 
of Sciences with those of the ministries anddepartments; (3) follow the conduct 
of research up tothe time its resultsare introduced into the national economy; 
(4) work out draft plans for research projects and plans for introduction of 
achievements into production in such a way as to ensure the development of 
all branches of the economy which have beendrawn up jointly with the U.S.S.R. 
State Economic Council, and the U.S.S.R. Gosplan with suggestions from the 
Union-Republic Councils of Ministers and the U.S.S.R. ministries and other 
administrative units to be submitted for approval to the U.S.S.R. Council of 
Ministers; and (5) on the basis of the draft plans from the Union-Republic 
Councils of Ministers, the U.S.S.R. Ministries, and other administrative units, 
work out and submit to the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers for approval annual 
and long-range plans for the financing of research projects and their mate- 
rial and technical supply, as well as draft plans for capital investments in the 
development of science, these plans to be made in conjunction with the U.S.S.R. 
Gosplan, the U.S.S.R. State Economic Council, and the U.S.S.R. Ministry of 
Finance.(1) 
In summary, the Coordination Committee has the duty and right to 
coordinate all research projects except those that are not concerned with 
more than one branch of the economy. The latter will be coordinated by other 
State administrative units, including the sovnarkhozy (republic, regional, and 
and municipal economic councils.) 
Union-Republic State Committees on 
Coordination of Scientific Research 
Shortly after the formation of the U.S.S.R. Coordination Committee, 
nine Union-Republic Committees were formed, concerned with problems 
peculiar to the scientific community and economy oftheir own republics. The 
Chairmen of these Coordination Committees are Deputy Chairmen of their 
respective Union-Republic Councils of Ministers. They are modeled on the 
U.S.S.R. Coordination Committee. 
The R.S.F.S.R. State Committee for Coordination of Scientific Research 
was given jurisdiction of the former U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences affiliates. In 
the R.S.F.S.R., the coordination of the workof the scientific facilities subordinate 
to the sovnarkhozy is the joint duty of the Coordination Committee and the 
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the R.S.F.S.R. (VSNKH). The 
R.S.F.S.R. Ministry of Higher and Specialized Secondary Education works with 
the Coordination Committee to coordinate the scientific and technical work 
