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ABSTRACT THE recent decision of the Soviet Government to transfer the Russian Academy of Sciences and its affiliated institutions from Leningrad to Moscow marks the beginning of a new period
in the history of the Academy, which dates back more than two hundred years. As is pointed out in the Izvestia, the transference is not a measure dictated merely by consideration of
convenience. Indeed, the accommodation which has to be provided at short notice for more than a hundred institutes, laboratories, museums, etc., forming the Academy is only obtainable in the
already overcrowded Moscow mainly at the expense of other institutions, which are being moved elsewhere. New and spacious buildings are being erected at a ‘shock speed’, but mostly just
planned, while many of the institutions are actually moving. In addition, living quarters have to be provided for the thousands of academic officials and their families, since all flats,
rooms, etc. in Moscow are under the strictest State control. All these difficulties have resulted from the recent decree by which the Academy has been brought under the direct control of the
Soviet of the People's Commissars. New statutes for the Academy are being prepared in order to replace “the old traditions of purely academic outlook” by work on problems connected
with the “socialistic reconstruction” of the country. While the new order will possibly mean increased material support for some of the academic institutions, the decision as to whether or
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CITE THIS ARTICLE Russian Academy of Sciences. _Nature_ 135, 111 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135111d0 Download citation * Issue Date: 19 January 1935 * DOI:
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