Research institutions of Siberian branch of USSR Academy of Sciences in Tomsk city: history offoundation and development of their material and technical resources (1969-1991)

One of the important forms of science organization in the Soviet period was branches of the Academy of Sciences of theUSSR. The Siberian branch (SB) of Academy of Sciences (AS) of the USSR was founded in 1957. Institute of Atmospheric Optics(IAO) of SB AS USSR was established in 1969 in the framework of this scientific structure. One of the most important tasks of theacademic science in Tomsk was the development of facilities, scientific and technical base. In 1969-1970 the Presidium of the Academyof Sciences of the USSR made a Resolution of foundation of the Institute of Atmospheric Optics and Institute of Petroleum Chemistry inTomsk. Many research institutions were opened in the period under review. Among them were the Institute of High-Current Electronics,Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, Special Design Bureau of Scientific Instrument Engineering (SDB SIE) ''Optica''and others. There were no buildings for these institutes. Only in 1971 after long conciliations and allocation of funds, construction ofengineering buildings for IAO began. In 1979, a building for the Institute of High-Current Electronics was put into exploitation. Thatvery year the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry got its own engineering laboratory building. One of the primary construction projects wasa building for SDB SIE ''Optica''. The first phase of research-and-production complex of SDB was let in 1983 only due to the efforts ofTomsk region and its scientists. In 1985, technological building for the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science was erected.Another characteristic of material and technical base of Academgorodok was condition of the equipment. For example, the Institute ofAtmospheric Optics had unique scientific equipment (big and small aerosol cases, cells). The studied archive documents demonstrate thedynamics of material and technical base increase of the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry of SB AS USSR. Institute of High-CurrentElectronics of SB AS USSR, as well as other Tomsk academic institutions, developed their material and technical base. The specificityof the performed scientific work required turning, milling, drilling and welding equipment, which was supplied in the right quantitiesduring the reviewed period. The Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of SB AS USSR also increased its material andtechnical base: coating machines, metallurgical microscopes, machine for diffusion welding in vacuum etc. The fundamentals ofmaterial and technical base of Tomsk branch of SB AS USSR were laid in 1970-1980s. The collapse of the Soviet Union and thesubsequent recessionary conditions affected scientific and research complex in Tomsk, too. Nevertheless, Tomsk academic science notonly could withstand at that difficult period, but also fortified its position in the scientific sphere of the country.

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