State Committee for Science and Technology
The State Committee for Science and Technology (Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Nauke i Tekhnike—GKNT) was an influential committee established in the Soviet Union in 1965. It took over from the State Committee for the Introduction of New Technologies (Gostekhnika) which had existed since 1948.{{cite book |last1=Rindzevičiūtė |first1=Eglė |title=The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World |date=2016 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=9781501706257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nmhADwAAQBAJ&dq=ISBN+9781501703188&pg=PR4 |accessdate=29 July 2018 |language=en}} 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 was appointed chairman. He retained this position until 1980 when he was replaced by Gury Marchuk.{{cite journal |first1=Paul|last1=Wohl|title=Kosygin pushed further into background |journal=Christian Science Monitor |date=1980 |issue=4 February 1980 |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0204/020442.html |accessdate=29 July 2018 |issn=0882-7729}} Dzhermen Gvishiani was appointed Deputy Chairman.{{cite web |title=Dzhermen Gvishiani |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dzhermen+Gvishiani |website=TheFreeDictionary.com |publisher=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition |accessdate=31 July 2018}}
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