CONFERENCE OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR THE STUDY OF PRODUCTIVE FORCES OF THE MOLOTOV REGION AND PERM UNIVERSITY: POINTS OF INTERSECTION

The study focuses on an extraordinary event in the history of scientific and industrial policy in the post-war Soviet Union: the Conference of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the Development of Productive Forces in the Molotov Region, which took place in late 1945 in the capital of the Western Urals. Using archival documents, including previously unpublished ones, from federal and regional archives, this article offers new insights into the factors that directly influenced the organization and topics of the issues discussed at the conference. The historiographic formulas for describing the Conference have been supplemented and partially revised. The chronology and nuances of organizing this event, as well as the influence of the regional party leader N.I. Gusarov on these processes, have been clarified. The role of the Council for the Development of Productive Forces (CDPF) in preparing and holding the scientific and practical forum is demonstrated. The article examines the intersections between the history of Perm University and organizations, structures, and historical figures associated with the organization of the first regional scientific and industrial forum in Molotov (Perm). This article describes the contribution of V. F. Tiunov, one of the first professional economists from the Kama region, to the development of the Conference's thematic priorities. Contemporary assessments of the phenomenon of regional post-war conferences of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the development of productive forces are considered in the broader context of the mobilization of academic science in the post-war restoration of the Soviet economy.