Academic science of the Republic of Komi at the present stage

The history of studies of the European North, since the period of the academic expeditions, is briefly described. The Polar Commission (coordinated the activity of the expeditions) and the Pechora brigade (defined the strategy of development of the Pechora region) had significant influence on the development and level of scientific researches of the territory. Initiatives of the Academy of Sciences have led to creation of the academic institutions. The formation in the walls of the Komi Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, as the first academic institution in the Republic, of actual for the northern region directions of researches is de- scribed. The place of the academic science in the life of the republic in condi- tions of reforming the Russian Academy of Sciences is shown. Vectors of its fu- ture on the platform of the created Federal research centre with the formation of the interdisciplinary research program with the amplification of the Arctic subjects for social and economic development of the Republic are designated. Special attention is paid to legislated truly Arctic territory of the Republic and the scientifically-grounded propositions of the academic science on the moderni- zation of the economy of Vorkuta with the development of new industries.