title: Postgraduate Student, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
abstract: Council for Study of Productive Forces was established by Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1930 on the basis of pre-existing division of the Academy of Sciences, which had similar goals, - Commission for Study of Natural Productive Forces. At the time of its inception, the Council was divided into two sectors - the territorial and thematic. The thematic sector problems, the first chairman of which was one of the founders of physical and chemical analysis of Academician N. Kurnakov, included th
journal: Historical and social-educational ideas