Highest certification commission

VAK exercises also general control over the work of councils on the certification of scientific -ped. personnel, gives the right to assume to the protection doctoral and candidate dissertations councils, which did not earlier have these rights, asserts the personal composition of councils, is established the enumeration of specialties, on which they start to the protection of thesis and, etc. (personal composition of the councils of the institutes of the AS USSR, AN of union republics and branch academies, which received from Vaca the right to assume to the protection of thesis, it is asserted by the presidiuies of sootvetstv. of academies).

Composition Vaca Is asserted By Sov. Min. of the USSR. VAK has presidium, 11 sections (1970): physical- math., chem., biol., humanitarian, med., economic, mashinostroit., mountain, building, radio-tech., serviceman and 76 expert commissions for section to specialties, and also draw the reviewers, who give conclusions on the section to theses or scientific works of the persons, represented to the certification.

Assertion VAKom in the scientific degrees and the titles is produced on the track, to the branches of sciences (including different specialties): physical- math., chem., biol., geologomineralogich., tech., agr., are true, economic, philos., filologich., geographic, juridicial, ped., med., farmatsevtich., vet., to art study, to architecture, by serviceman, voen.- marine, psychological.

In the composition Vaca (1970) the well-known scholars and the representatives of industry, of them 12 Presidents AN of union republics, 47 academicians, 78 corresponding members. AS USSR, 34 academicians and corresponding member. AN of union republics, 24 academicians and corresponding member. AMN OF THE USSR, 11 academicians and corresponding member. VASKHNIL - ALL-UNION ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES IM. V. I. LENIN, 4 academicians of APN USSR l - All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences im. V. I. Lenin - Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, USSR, 195 professors and the doctors of sciences, 16 leading workers of national economy.

M. n. volkov.