The State Committee for Science and Technology (Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Nauke i Tekhnike—GKNT) was an influential committee established in the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

in 1965. It took over from the

State Committee for the Introduction of New Technologies State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

(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 (; – 29 January 1999) was a Soviet physicist specializing in energetics and thermophysics and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, as well as a Soviet party official. After graduating fro ...

was appointed chairman. He retained this position until 1980 when he was replaced by

Gury Marchuk Gury Ivanovich Marchuk (; 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 President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 198 ...

Dzhermen Gvishiani Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani (24 December 1928, Akhaltsikhe – 18 May 2003, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist, management theorist and scientific administrator. Early life and family Dzhermen Gvishiani was born the son ...

was appointed Deputy Chairman.

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