In the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Science of the Turkmen SSR

The Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen S8R is directing its scientific-research activity in 1959 in accord with the tasks presented to economic science by the 21st Congress of the CPSU. One of these tasks of primary importance is the establishment of close ties between economic scientific institutes and the planning of the national economy and the whole practice of communist construction. In striving to creatively generalize and theoretically to think through new questions posed by life, the collective of the institute is continuing in 1959 its investigations in the areas of location of productive forces, the economics of industry and agriculture, the history of the national economy of the Turkmen SSR, and the development of economic thought in Turkmenistan.