The role of the party organizations of the Novosibirsl region in the creation of the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the activities of the scientific and pedagogica intelligentsia in the late 1950's and early 1960's

Organization of the Siberian branch (SB) of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the creation of Akademgorodok was a great event not only for Western Siberia, but for the whole country. New academic institutions and the Siberia-largest scientific library formed the scientific complex and received the status of the Novosibirsk scientific center (NSC). The Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the Party, in accordance with the rulings of the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers, took the most active part in the establishment of the SB. The Regional Committee (obkom) coordinated and solved many important issues connected with the construction of the Akademgorodok, the deployment of the research, selection, arrangement and educating personnel, the strengthening and the improvement of the work of the party organization of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The first block of issues, which involved regional party bodies, were the problems of design and construction of Akademgorodok (as a scientific institution and a cluster of infrastructure). The Regional Communist Party Committee took measures to establish and strengthen the organization of the construction. Questions of the construction of the objects of the Siberian Branch were repeatedly discussed at the Bureau of the CPSU Regional Committee. To strengthen the party's influence on all the parts of the process of creating a new scientific center the Sovetsky district of the Novosibirsk city was established which included the territory where Akademgorodok and the hydropower station were buuilt. Among those who made a personal contribution to the organization of the construction of Akademgorodok was the head of the Novosibirsk Regional Committee (obkom) of the CPSU. F.S. Goryachev and the First Secretary of the CPSU Soviet District Committee E.K. Ligachev. The second block of questions the Novosibirsk CPSU Regional Committee dealt with was the personnel question: selection, preparation and placement of personnel of the SB. Obkom was engaged in the matters ofplacement personnel at the institutions, arrangement and education of the personnel of researchers, administrative and economic apparatus. An important direction of the work of the Department of Science and Schools of the Regional CPSU Committee was the improvement of the skills of specialists in the USSR, including through graduate schools. The third area of activity of the Regional Committee was the adoption of measures on the improvement of industrial and cultural and household conditions of the researchers of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

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