Abstract

The certification of scientific and of research and teaching personnel, which takes place in accordance with the Statute on the Procedure for Awarding Learned Degrees and Academic Titles, established by decree of the USSR Council of Ministers, December 29, 1975 (1), marks a qualitatively new stage in the training of scholarly personnel of the highest qualifications. The issue is not one of particular additions, changes, or modifications of the acts previously in force to regulate the procedure for awarding learned degrees but of a significant raising of the requirements both for those seeking learned degrees and for the research they conduct. The experience accumulated in the recent past with the work of specialized councils on defense of dissertations and awarding of learned degrees makes it possible to draw the conclusion that their work of certification has been elevated to a higher level. The councils have begun to take a more rigorous approach to evaluation of the scientific and practical significanc...

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