Role of the Komi branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the organization of the Ural branch of the Academy of Sciences (preconditions for participation and the importance of merging)

The history of organization of the Ural Branch, RAS, is described through the prism of interests of scientists of the Komi Science Centre. The priority problems promoting merging of Sverdlovsk and Syktyvkar with all those difficulties and contradictions that had to be overcome in the course of the organization of the regional Branch are shown. Positive and negative results of this merging are given.