FORMATION PECULIARITIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL POTENTIAL IN THE IVANO-FRANKIVSK REGION

Abstract

The article deals with the process of establishment of engineering and technical clerisy and the corresponding organizational structures (infrastructures) on the example of the development of the oil and gas industry in Ivano-Frankivsk region – the Western region of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The main points of the research are the traditional principles of historicism, objectivity, systematicity, comprehensiveness, representationism and humanism. The purpose of the article is to describe the process of forming the scientific and technical potential and its infrastructure in Ivano-Frankivsk region in the twentieth century which is based on the analysis of scientific and historical literature and archive sources. The system of «scientific and technical progress» management of the country, the republic and the region has been revealed, which is based on the establishment of appropriate organizational structures for the coordination of research works.  It has been proved that the clerisy differs from seven western regions of the Republic in his powerful scientific and technical potential, which was concentrated in Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of oil and gas. Ivano-Frankivsk region is behind the neighboring Lviv region in the development of a number of scientific problems and production communications; it has been thought to be a sample in the process of the «socialist transformations». During the period from the late 40’s to the mid 60’s of the twentieth century an extensive network of scientific institutions and organizations in Ivano-Frankivsk region has been established that constituted the basis for the scientific and technical potential of the Western region of the USSR. The design and engineering agencies, design and technological organizations, research stations, research units and branches of higher educational institutions are various in the functional use and forms of activity, that have directed their work at solving the urgent economic problems of the region.

Keywords: Ivano-Frankivsk region, scientific institutions, the oil and gas industry, engineering and technical clerisy, economy.