First academic center of Eastern Siberia: projects and realities

The article is devoted to an unknown page in the history of academic science in Eastern Siberia that is studying the projects of the branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, initiated by the Irkutsk scientific community in the middle of the 1940-ies. The study of the history of regional science allows us conclude that the ideas about creation of the complex scientific center were partially realized a decade later during the foundation of the Siberian branch of the AS USSR.