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p The future of science may confidently be said to be the future of production.

p Soviet science is making steady headway. The range of problems studied by natural and social sciences is continuously growing and the material and technical facilities of science are expanding. In the period 1958-64 the number of scientific institutions increased by 50 per cent and the number of problem and branch laboratories at institutions of higher learning was more than doubled. In the same period the number of scientific workers increased more than twofold to reach the impressive total of over 666,200.

p Large scientific centres are appearing all over the Soviet Union. The need to study Siberia’s natural wealth and develop her productive forces has called to life the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences. This Division consists of a large number of research institutes. Academies of Sciences have been set up in all the Union republics.

At the 23rd Congress of the C.P.S.U. it was noted that one of the central tasks of the current five-year plan of economic development is to substantially enhance the effectiveness of scientific research and accelerate the 226 introduction of its results in industry. To this end provision has been made to concentrate scientists and material resources on basic problems that hold out the promise of yielding the greatest economic benefits, enlarge the experimental and production facilities of research and design organisations and institutions and supply them with the latest scientific and laboratory equipment.