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of the higher educational institutions. Any scientific and technical work not 
of all R.S.F.S.R. importance remains with the sovnarkhozyand the R.S.F.S.R. 
ministries and administrative units to coordinate.(68,69) 
The purposes, duties, and rights of Union-Republic Coordination Com - 
mittees are similar in kind if not in scale or degree to those of the U.S.S.R. 
Coordination Committee. They must coordinate and work with the same kind 
of administrative units as does the U.S.S.R. Coordination Committee, but 
within the republics. It is the Union-Republic Gosplans, Academies of 
Sciences, and Ministries of Higher Education that form the teams. This is 
ensured by a similar membership on the Union-Republic Coordination Com - 
mittees.(65,70) The only exception is the unique position within the union 
republics of the sovnarkhozy, discussed in the next paragraph. 
REPUBLIC AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCILS (SOVNARKHOZY) 
Because there are no longer any purely industrial U.S.S.R. ministries 
since the reorganization of 1957, the daily administration of facilities for the 
production of industrial goods has been assigned to the latest version of 
Soviet territorial economic councils, called the sovnarkhozy.(5,6,7) Some 
are limited in jurisdiction to one region or city of a republic; others are 
republic -wide. (18) 
The more than 100 sovnarkhozy were directly responsible to their 
respective republic Councils of Ministers, but their activities were regulated 
in part by the U.S.S.R. administrative units such as U.S.S.R. Gosplan. In 
1961, remaining regional sovnarkhozy were grouped into 17 economic regions, 
each supplied with a coordinating and planning council whose deputy executives 
were chosen by the Party.(/2) Since then, within many republics there have 
been debates on the relation of the sovnarkhozy to the republic Councils of 
Ministers and the administrative units of the Councils of Ministers such as the 
republic Gosplans.(73,75) 
The sovnarkhozy are divided into branch administrations for supply, 
marketing, machine building, aircraft building and others, and these branch 
administrations are accompanied by operational administrations for planning, 
personnel, and others. Service departments and laboratories are attached to 
the sovnarkhozy. Each sovnarkhoz has a scientific-technical council, and 
some have other advisory councils.(18) 
Some sovnarkhozy have scientific and technological research facilities 
subordinate to them, but these facilities are seldom of national importance, 
as they serve local needs. Some of these facilities are included in the 
Directory. 
