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The purpose of the article is to record and analyze the change in the ratio of the share of fundamental and applied research in the research institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The study brings us to the most important problem of modern Russian science studies, allowing us to more adequately assess the speed and depth of transformation of Russian research practice in the context of global trends in changing the scientific landscape. The key theoretical framework of the study is the widely discussed thesis of an "epochal break" in the development of world science. A sharp turn towards a practically oriented scientific search in a certain sense contradicts the basic academic values formulated within the walls of a classical university. It is shown that at the empirical level, the first points of tension in the research institutes of the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok were recorded almost from the very beginning of market reforms in science. Further, using the example of the results of a number of large-scale sociological studies, it is proved that the forced transition to an increasingly applied orientation of research was perceived quite painfully by scientists, especially the older generation. Many of them interpreted this as a betrayal of the cause of true science. It is concluded that, unlike foreign science, for which the transition to neoliberal science occurred primarily through evolutionary means, in Russian conditions it was a rapid and painful process of forced adaptation of science to new conditions of activity, which was of a shock nature.