Features of the Formation of the Pushchino Town Scientific Community in the 1960s – Early 1970s

The article deals with the basic ways and mechanisms for staffing the Scientific Center for Biological Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the academic town of Pushchino near Moscow in the 1960s – early 1970s. The process of forming a group of researchers in the scientific town was contingent on the need to organize the movement of scientific personnel to Moscow region as soon as possible, as well as to provide systematic training for young specialists to work in institutes and laboratories of the center. This specificity of the personnel policy goals largely led to an experimental approach to forming the Pushchino community, which involved the use of both traditional methods of staffing scientific institutions and innovative tools of the Thaw era. As a result, the most effective mechanism for the organization of the Pushchino scientific community was the secondment of research assistants to the institutes and laboratories of the scientific center. This strategy served as a springboard for building professional trajectories of young researchers in the scientific town. Therefore, by the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s a local scientific community took its shape in Pushchino, and the core of it mainly consisted of specialists without academic degrees. This ensured the “young” appearance of the town of science.

Pushchino, USSR Academy of Sciences, scientific towns, biophysics, scientific personnel, research assistants