“The union needs an all-union academy...” Excerpt from the transcript of the meeting of the RCP(b) faction of the 3rd session of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of the 2nd convocation on March 5, 1925

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This publication is an excerpt from the transcript of the meeting of the RCP(b) faction of the 3rd session of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the 2nd convocation in Tiflis on March 5, 1925, at which the issue of awarding the Russian Academy of Sciences the all-Union status was discussed in connection with the need to approve its new charter. The preface discusses the prerequisites for this decision, as well as the various opinions of CEC members, representatives of the Academy, heads of Glavnauka, People’s Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR and other party delegates.

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A. G. Tsypkina

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кандидат исторических наук, старший научный сотрудник

Russian Federation, Moscow

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2. Participants of the ceremonial 1st meeting of the All-Union Academy of Sciences. 1925 Right side – Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from left to right): Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician A.V. Steklov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician A.P. Karpinsky, Permanent Secretary Academician S.F. Oldenburg. At the table in the back of the room – members of the Department of Russian Language and Literature (from right to left): E.F. Karsky, V.N. Peretz, B.M. Lyapunov, N.P. Likhachev. To the left, at the first table opposite the Presidium – members of the Historical and Philological Department (from left to right): I.Yu. Krachkovsky, S.F. Platonov, F.I. Uspensky, P.A. Lavrov, F.I. Shcherbatsky, F.Yu. At the left wall is the Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (from left to right): A.E. Fersman, S.P. Kostychev, V.L. Omelyansky.

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