«Dear» Guests: Reception of the Delegation from the Cuban Academy of Sciences Headed by President Dr. Antonio Núñez Jimenez in the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1963

Keywords:

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Ukraine, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Antonio Núñez Jiménez, cost estimate

Abstract

The National Academy of Science of Ukraine started the cooperation with the Cuban Academy of Sciences (AS) in 1963. On May 24, 1963, to organize the reception of the delegation from the Cuban AS, presided by Antonio Núñez Jiménez, the AS of the Soviet Ukraine requested additional funds from the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Ukraine due to the extra costs that occurred because, when making a preliminary cost estimate, AS had not been aware of the additional instructions by directive organs about the procedure of meeting and reception of foreign guests. On the one hand, such a request demonstrated that the administration of the AS of the Soviet Ukraine had not been familiar with the details pertaining to organization of cooperation with foreign countries and indulged the whims of “valuable” foreign scientists; on the other hand, it shows the all-out dependence of the Ukrainian research system on the central power bodies that hindered the development of international scientific relations. The article contains a selection of six archive documents on the implications of the reception of the delegation from the Cuban AS in 1963.

 

Introduction and documents prepared for publication by:
A. H. Luhovskyi

Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7644-5995

Published

2018-10-07

How to Cite

«Dear» Guests: Reception of the Delegation from the Cuban Academy of Sciences Headed by President Dr. Antonio Núñez Jimenez in the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1963. (2018). Nauka Ta Naukoznavstvo, (3(101), 125–129. Retrieved from https://nasu-periodicals.org.ua/index.php/sofs/article/view/8880