The State Committee for Science and Technology (Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Nauke i Tekhnike—GKNT) was an influential committee established in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
in 1965. It took over from the
State Committee for the Introduction of New Technologies (Gostekhnika) which had existed since 1948.
The organisation was abolished on 1 December, 1991 by the Decree of the State Council of the USSR of November 14, 1991.
[ Постановление Государственного Совета СССР от 14.11.1991 № 13]
Personnel
Vladimir Kirillin
Vladimir Alekseyevich Kirillin (russian: Владимир Алексеевич Кириллин; – 29 January 1999) was a Soviet physicist specializing in energetics and thermophysics and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Un ...
was appointed chairman. He retained this position until 1980 when he was replaced by
Gury Marchuk
Gury Ivanovich Marchuk (russian: Гурий Иванович Марчук; 8 June 1925 – 24 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician (since 1968); the ...
.
was appointed Deputy Chairman.
References
{{Departments of the USSR, state=uncollapsed
Scientific organizations based in the Soviet Union