Confessions of an Enemy of the People

Abstract

In the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1930s, for the first time in the world, they began to plan scientific research and development in branch science. An outstanding role in the development of methodological and theoretical problems of planning scientific research belonged to N. I. Bukharin. To do this, he created a scientific and technical department in the Supreme Council of National Economy, and when the Supreme Council of National Economy was liquidated, the Central Research Sector (CRS) of the People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry began to deal with the planning of scientific research. In the Urals, in the most important industrial center of the industrialization of the USSR, F. P. Barsukov, a native of the city of Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, engaged in the organization of planning and development of industry and academic science. In Sverdlovsk, he created the Ural House of Technology and a geological exhibition - the future Ural Geological Museum. In 1937 F. P. Barsukov was repressed. He died in a detention camp in 1942.