The USSR Academy of Sciences Development Projects in the Middle of 1950s.
The article is devoted to new interpretation of the USSR Academy of Sciences’ strategies oriented on its institutional development in the Eastern regions of Russia. The author elaborates that there was a major change in the paradigm of the Soviet scientific development in the middle of 1950s. The preceding strategy set up yet in 1930s and based on the model of modernization exclusively focused on military demands was substituted with a new one reasonably balanced between the military and civil components. This new strategy has become the key factor that determined innovative academic development in the Eastern part of Russia, including establishment of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Institute of History and Archaeology of Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinbyrg
Pages: 40-44
